By Asa Winstanley: UK Labour officials have prevented a party debate on sanctions against anti-Gentile apartheid regime Israel, which had been planned for Thursday night.
The officials claimed that the discussion could lead to “anti-Semitic behavior.”
A motion, passed by a local Labour branch, calls for Israel to “end its violation of the human rights of Palestinians” and for the UK government to “impose legal sanctions on Israel,” specifically an end to arms sales and “trade with illegal settlements.”
The motion also called for “an end to the illegal occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.” You can read it in full below.
But Kim Bolton – chair of the Hove and Portslade Constituency Labour Party (CLP), near Brighton in the south of England – ruled that members would not be allowed to even discuss the motion.