Activists to Stage 'Israel Apartheid' Protest as Netanyahu Visits UK

Activists to Stage 'Israel Apartheid' Protest as Netanyahu Visits UK

Amnesty International UK activists staged a protest against Israeli apartheid outside Downing Street as the Israeli pprime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the U.K. for talks with Rishi Sunak. (Photo: AFP)

Amnesty International activists will stage a protest against Israeli apartheid outside Downing Street on Thursday afternoon as the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the UK for talks with his British counterpart Rishi Sunak.

Amnesty said a small group of activists will hold aloft placards and a six-foot banner saying “End Israeli apartheid” at the gates of Downing Street at 3:00pm, with protesters wearing t-shirts with the same anti-apartheid message.

Last year, Amnesty published a major report showing how the Israeli authorities’ treatment of the Palestinians amounts to the international crime of apartheid, with massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, the forcible transfer of Palestinian people from their land, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians in Israel.

"Since the formation of a new Israeli government under Netanyahu in December, there has been a sharp deterioration in an already poor human rights situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, yet the UK has made few public statements on the growing crisis and refrained from substantive criticism of the Israeli authorities," Amnesty said in a press release.

Amnesty UK’s chief executive Sacha Deshmukh has written to Rishi Sunak ahead of the visit raising concerns about the UK’s commitment to international justice given its tacit acceptance of Israel’s decades-long occupation and annexation of Palestinian territory.

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