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Rock star Peter Gabriel, from the band Genesis, and filmmaker Ken Loach, director of films like Cathy Come Home, The Navigators, Riff-Raff, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Kes, and 34,000 others are all signatories in an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron demanding an immediate interruption of trade between Israel and the UK. The letter was delivered by Loach and British lawmakers Jim Fitzpatrick, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn directly to the residence of the British premier at 10 Downing Street in London.
Other prominent signatories include journalist Jemima Khan, fashion designer Bella Freud, musicians Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack, Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, Bryan Adams and Brian Eno, writers Hanif Kureishi, Will Self, Ahdaf Soueif,Laura Bailey, William Dalrymple and Esther Freud, and actors Alexei Sayle, Maxine Peake and David Morrissey. Prominent academics Ghada Karmi, Karma Nabulsi and human rights lawyer Geoffrey Bindman have also signed the letter.
The letter, posted on Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s website earlier in the week, gathered 21,000 signatures in little over 48 hours.
Hugh Lanning from thePalestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) said, “Our aim is to stop the Israeli government getting military aid and equipment from the British government. Our aid and arms help kill innocent Palestinian civilians. We need to isolate apartheid Israel now and impose sanctions now”.
In an email he sent to PSC, Bobby Gillespie wrote, “Our hearts and love are with the Palestinian people. We support their continuing fight for human rights and dignity and righteous resistance to Israeli imperialism, occupation and war crimes”.
Speaking to reporters, Jeremy Corbyn said, “The UK has a very close relationship with Israel, including buying and selling arms, and it’s time that this relationship was brought to an end since Israel is now under investigation for war crimes over the bombing of Gaza.I received an email from Dr. Mads Gilbert, working in Shifa hospital [in Gaza City], and it brought tears to my eyes when he was describing the pools of blood, the electricity cut off, the lack of clean water and the continuous surge of the dead and injured pouring into the hospital. It’s people like that who are saving lives, and Israel which is taking lives”.
Speaking to reporters, Ken Loach said, “It’s disgraceful that our government is arming the State of Israel to continue its slaughter of civilians, of women and children. Everyone must be devastated by the sight of the maimed and the dead in Gaza, and everyone must direct their anger towards the Israeli war machine”.
If you are in the UK click here to sign the letter to David Cameron.