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THE government is pushing ahead with plans to legislate against the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a former Tory minister has revealed.
Tory MP and former housing secretary Robert Jenrick said such a Bill could be introduced to Parliament as early as next spring.
It comes more than two years after the Tories promised in their 2019 manifesto to impose a ban on councils using “boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions campaigns against foreign countries.”
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
The struggle for Palestinian freedom has become a defining issue for everyone committed to justice, democracy and peace, says PETER LEARY ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI