Plaid Cymru MPs call for Israel boycott over Gaza

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Plaid Cymru MPs call for ******* boycott over Gaza

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==Getty Images

About 42,000 people have been ******* as part of *******’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza, according to the ******-run health ministry

Plaid Cymru’s four MPs have backed calls for a sporting and economic boycott of ******* over the war in Gaza.

The party’s Westminster group is supporting a motion at the party’s conference which calls ******* an “apartheid state” and accuses it of “genocide, ******* cleansing and war *******”.

Plaid members will decide whether the party should endorse the calls when they meet in Cardiff later.

The Palestinians’ top envoy to the ***, Husam Zomlot, will also address the conference on Saturday afternoon.

In an interview with the BBC, party leader Rhun ap Iorwerth hinted at a difference of opinion on the matter, declining to confirm whether he personally endorsed the motion.

The motion proposed by the party’s members in Ceredigion condemns “in the strongest possible terms” the “murders of tens of thousands of Palestinians, including over 10,000 children, by the state of *******”.

It criticises the “********* perpetrated by ****** against innocent people in *******” but says the “increasingly oppressive apartheid regime maintained by the ******** government makes a two-state solution less likely to bring about a just peace”.

The motion says the *** government should “expel the ******** ambassador”, ban arms sales to *******, and that all Plaid members should support an “economic and cultural boycott”.

That would include Welsh national sports teams boycotting the country.

It also says councils should divest from companies that “support the apartheid ******** state”.

Ap Iorwerth said ******* had acted contrary to international law but declined to support calls for a boycott himself.

“Individuals will take different positions on matters like boycotts,” he said.

“Those attacks a year ago were appalling, and we condemn them. We need to see the release of surviving hostages, but we also need to call out the state of *******.”

About 1,200 people – mostly ******** civilians – were ******* in the ****** 7 October attacks.

Since then, some 42,000 people have been ******* as part of *******’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza, according to the ******-run health ministry.

The Plaid motion cites Amnesty International, which

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

said that *******’s laws, policies and practices against Palestinians in ******* and the occupied territories amounted to apartheid.

It said it maintained “an institutionalised regime of oppression and domination of the ************ population for the benefit of ******* Israelis”.

At the time, *******’s foreign ministry had accused Amnesty of recycling “*****, inconsistencies, and unfounded assertions that originate from well-known anti-******** hate organisations”.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#Plaid #Cymru #MPs #call #******* #boycott #Gaza

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up