Palestine Action co-founder blasts UK sanctions on Israel as 'symbolic' and 'ineffective'
Palestine Action co-founder blasts UK sanctions on Israel as 'symbolic' and 'ineffective' The co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, has criticised the UK government's hypocrisy in proscribing the direct action group as a "terrorist" organisation while claiming to stand up for international law by banning trade with Israeli settlements. “Britain has no issue with sanctioning and…
Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, has harshly criticized the UK government's sanctions on Israel as "symbolic" and "ineffective". The UK government has labeled Palestine Action as a "terrorist" organization while simultaneously claiming to advocate for international law by prohibiting trade with Israeli settlements. Ammori expressed her disdain on X, stating that Britain has no problem sanctioning and criminalizing its own citizens for disrupting the Israeli weapons industry during a genocide.
When confronted with a Bloomberg journalist's assertion that British diplomats informed the US that the UK's new policy on Israeli settlements is "largely symbolic", Ammori argued that London's sanctions on Israeli settlements are insufficient, deeming them "symbolic" and "ineffective". Thousands of protesters, primarily pensioners, have been arrested for holding signs in opposition to the ban on Palestine Action.
Despite this, the UK can only impose symbolic and ineffective sanctions on the entity perpetrating a genocide.
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