That this House notes that the Israeli government has expressed the desire to upgrade its relations with the EU to the same level as Norway and Switzerland; further notes that this would include the ability to have free passage of goods, people and capital between the two entities; further notes that Israel remains in consistent violation of UN Security Council Resolutions and the Fourth Geneva Convention, has routinely prevented the free movement of Palestinian goods and people and has withheld Palestinian funds from their people; further notes that these and other grievous human rights abuses represent a clear breach of Article Two of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which calls for adherence to human rights laws; commends the International Development Select Committee’s report into development assistance and the Occupied Palestinian territories, and in particular its recommendation that `the UK should urge the EU to use the Association Agreement with Israel as a lever for change and to consider suspending the Agreement until there are further improvements in access arrangements’; and urges the Government to insist that no upgrading of Israel’s relations with the EU be considered until the Israeli government has brought itself into full compliance with international law, including the permanent lifting of all barriers to freedom of movement for Palestinian goods, people and capital.
This is the list of MPs who have signed so far:
Derek Wyatt, John Austin, Peter Bottomley, Desmond Turner, Chris McCafferty, Paul Holmes, Nicholas Soames, Kelvin Hopkins, John McDonnell, Martin Caton, Ann Cryer, Phyllis Starkey, Evan Harris, Mark Lazarowicz, Colin Breed, Frank Cook, Jeremy Corbyn, Norman Baker, Jim Dowd, Roger Berry, Robert N Wareing, Joan Ruddock, Mohammad Sarwar, Brian Iddon, David Lepper, Andrew Love, David Drew, Helen Goodman, Lynne Jones, Rob Marris, Janet Dean, Bill Etherington, Adrian Sanders, Alan Simpson, Brian Jenkins, Alasdair McDonnell, Ann McKechin, Harry Cohen, Diane Abbott, Linda Riordan, David Hamilton, Janet Anderson, Kerry McCarthy, Marsha Singh, David Clelland, George Galloway, Betty Williams, David Laws, Clive Betts, Richard Younger-Ross, Richard Burden, Michael Connarty, Martin Horwood, John Pugh, Lyn Brown, John Greenway, Glenda Jackson, Ian Gibson, Roger Godsiff, Julie Morgan, Jim McGovern, Tony Lloyd, Anne Begg, John Hemming, Mark Lancaster, Eric Illsley, Mike Hancock, Claire Curtis-Thomas, Ian Lucas, John Gummer, Hugh Bayley, Mark Williams, John Barrett, Martyn Jones, Karen Buck, Emily Thornberry, Albert Owen
If your MP is not on that list and you think they should be, you could always write to them using the following service.
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