LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has barred Israeli government officials from attending the country’s biggest arms fair over growing concern about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The decision does not cover representatives of Israeli defense contractors, who will be allowed to attend the DSEI UK exhibition, scheduled for Sept. 9-12 in London. The event was formerly known as Defense and Security Equipment International.
“The Israeli Government’s decision to further escalate its military operation in Gaza is wrong,” the British government said in a statement. “As a result, we can confirm that no Israeli government delegation will be invited to attend DSEI UK 2025.”
The decision comes after Prime Minister Keir Starmer in July announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state unless Israel takes steps to end the crisis in Gaza, agrees to a ceasefire with Hamas and commits to a long-term peace agreement. Britain previously barred sales to Israel of any arms that could be used in the nearly 23-month war in Gaza.
READ THE SECOND LINE.
They de facto only blocked from attending people who didn’t needed to attend.
This press release of theirs is another example of the traditional technique in British Modern Politics (and not only there, but in Britain using that kind of thing is a fucking art form) of presenting a miniscule barely bothersome action on something that goes along the direction the public wants as a massive action in that direction whilst in fact not really doing anything in any way effective in the direction that the public wants.
It’s like when they loudly announced they had “Limited arms sales to Israel” some months ago and then in the details it turned out that they had blocked about 20 categories of weaponry out over 300 (and this all the while they kept flying surveillance flights over Gaza to give the info to Israel).
Smoke & Mirrors.
These people are professional deceivers and hypocrites.
My first thought after reading the headline was “but we know they’re also criminalizing criticism of the Palestinian genocide, so something doesn’t add up here”. Thanks for distilling the key info to reconcile that with this!
The decision does not cover representatives of Israeli defense contractors, who will be allowed to attend the DSEI UK exhibition, scheduled for Sept. 9-12
Imagine being so horrendously violent that you’re rejected by the people selling the guns.
wow. how can jewish ISIS recover from this blow.
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It’s not a war. It’s a genocide.
And the UK are not doing enough to stop it. Germany is approving of it mind you.
Fuck Israel but also maybe we just shouldn’t have “arms fairs” ya know
An arms fair sounds like the least fun type of fair.
It’s great fun if you’re a psychopath who can completely disassociate from the horrors all present enable.
They sent them a catalog instead
