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Then foreign secretary Liz Truss (centre left) and Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid (centre right) sign a memorandum of understanding at the Commonwealth And Development Office in London in November 2021
CAMPAIGNERS have condemned the possible relocation of Britain’s embassy in Israel, following reports that a site in the contested city of Jerusalem has already been earmarked.
Friends of al-Aqsa (FOA) warned on Wednesday that the relocation of the embassy from its current location in Tel Aviv, a proposal being considered by Prime Minister Liz Truss, would send a “clear message of British support for the violation of international law.”
The warning comes after Tory MPs allegedly received briefing notes ahead of the party’s conference in Birmingham from the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) group claiming that Britain already owns land in West Jerusalem on which a new embassy could be built.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions