Will you write to your MP today to call for meaningful and wide-ranging sanctions against Israel?
Posted: 4th September 2026
The Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has announced that the government is putting together a ‘comprehensive set of measures’ responding to Israel’s flagrant violations of international law.
This must not be another piecemeal and inadequate step.
Will you write to your MP today to call for meaningful and wide-ranging sanctions against Israel?
This week, as parliament returned from its summer recess, Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has been here with us in Britain to meet with MPs, trade unionists and others and speak to the media.
He made clear that any new measures must not simply be another ‘smoke and mirrors cop-out and distraction’ from Britain’s obligations under international law.
To coincide with his visit, PSC has produced a new briefing for MPs laying out the minimum sanctions that the British government is legally required to impose on Israel to comply with the July 2024 ruling of the International Court of Justice.
This includes ending all trade that aids or assists Israel’s violations of international law and taking action against companies that are complicit in these crimes, imposing a full two-way arms embargo, and putting an end to Britain’s preferential trade deal with Israel.
Please write to your MP today to encourage them to read our new briefing and ask them to call for meaningful sanctions.
In solidarity,
James
PSC Campaigns Officer
My letter:
Dear John Glen,
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has announced that the government is putting together a “comprehensive set of measures” responding to Israel’s flagrant violations of international law.
As my MP, I am asking you to write to the government to insist that this must include a full arms embargo and a ban on all trade that aids or assists Israel’s illegal occupation.
Please read this latest Palestine Solidarity Campaign briefing for more information: ‘A comprehensive set of measures? The minimum sanctions the British government is obligated to impose on Israel by the July 2024 ICJ ruling’.
Sanctions against Israel are already long overdue.
In July 2024 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory in Gaza and the West Bank including in East Jerusalem is illegal, that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, and that all states have an obligation to bring these crimes to an immediate end.
The ICJ ruling stipulates that states are obliged not to aid or assist the illegal occupation, including through trade policies. After two years, the government has shamefully still not responded to this historic ruling.
MPs must call on the government to formally respond to the ICJ ruling, and to ensure Britain is fulfilling its obligations under international law.
Take urgent action by pressing the government to:
1. Formally commit to complying with the July 2024 International Court of Justice ruling in full.
2. Ban all trade in goods and services with Israel’s illegal settlements and all other trade that aids or assists Israel’s violations of international law, including by implementing a two-way arms embargo on Israel.
3. Introduce binding rules to prevent British businesses from profiting from Israel’s unlawful occupation; end government contracts with businesses that are involved in the occupation and implement rigorous screening to exclude occupation-complicit businesses from government contracts.
4. Implement comprehensive sanctions on the state of Israel as a whole, as the primary body developing policy and implementing the expansion of settlements and maintenance of the occupation, including the suspension of the 2019 Bilateral Trade and Partnership Agreement with Israel and the revoking of the UK Israel 2030 Roadmap.
Please write to the government on this issue as a matter of urgency.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Gloyns