@josephwillits.bsky.social
Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding). http://instagram.com/josephwillits/ https://linktr.ee/josephwillits Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament. From between Junction 12/13 of the M6. Not funny, but tweets my own.
This Ramadan, let your sadaqa bring about lasting change. Donate strategically and help us continue this vital work and stand with Palestine. Give today and make a lasting impact.
Support our advocacy here: www.caabu.org/news/news/ra...
"Caabu is needed more than ever"
At our 7 March Iftar with @actionforhumanity.bsky.social
in Manchester, @andyburnham.bsky.social, Mayor of Greater Manchester, reflected on his engagement with Caabu, and why, especially in our current political climate, Caabu's work remains so important.
An important call from civil society, demanding a total ban on imports of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements.
Follows call from 119 UK Parliamentarians who called for a total ban on all trade and interaction with illegal Israeli settlements. Write to your MP! caabu.org/news/news/11...
TODAY we with 20 UK, international & Palestinian civil society organisations wrote to the Government to demand a total ban on imports of goods produced in Israel’s illegal settlements.
Full letter here: glanlaw.org/news/uk-gov-...
The UK must turn statements on international law into action 🧵
Israel has introduced major legal changes to facilitate further confiscation of Palestinian land.
I have joined MPs urging a total ban on trade with Israeli settlements and for further sanctions against settlers and settler groups.
caabu.org/news/news/11...
119 UK Parliamentarians call for further sanctions on Israel and a total ban on all trade and interaction with illegal Israeli settlements in letter to @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social following yet further illegal Israeli government measures in the occupied State of Palestine. caabu.org/news/news/11...
There are over 200 Israeli settlements, housing 750,000 settlers, in Palestine.
The Israeli Cabinet has approved land registration which will dispossess thousands more Palestinians.
The govt must impose meaningful sanctions that match the scale of Israel's illegal actions.
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Please do contact your MP, and if they've not added their name to this letter, encourage them to do so!
caabu.org/news/news/11...
"As ever, successive UK governments can never say they didn't know about Israel's war on such communities and the attempts to destroy them."
www.caabu.org/news/news/11...
"Or that settler violence will be deemed something minor and trivial. The UK Government has recently promised "concrete steps", but what are they? Palestinians and others, including Parliamentarians in the UK, have been waiting for decades to see what action will be taken."
My comments:
"The ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank continues at pace, intensifying as Israel carries out its bombing of Iran & Lebanon, & continues its genocide in Gaza, in the hope that its total erasure of Palestinian communities will go unnoticed."
119 UK Parliamentarians call for further sanctions on Israel & total ban on all trade & interaction with illegal Israeli settlements, in letter to Foreign Secretary @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social following more illegal Israeli gov measures in occupied State of Palestine. www.caabu.org/news/news/11...
A new report by @pressfreedom.bsky.social finds that 2025 was the deadliest year for journalists since it began documenting killings more than three decades ago.
Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all press killings in both 2025 and 2024.
Read the full report⬇️
cpj.org/special-repo...
Healthcare in Gaza should be protected under international law but has been destroyed by Israel.
With aid prevented and patients trapped, I said UK diplomacy isn’t enough.
And I asked what trade measures, arms controls, sanctions, and concrete consequences UK would deploy.
Labour’s strategy of claiming the Greens cannot win has echoes of the disastrous Caerphilly byelection in October, which the party lost to Plaid Cymru despite telling voters repeatedly: “Only Labour can beat Reform.”
Please don’t fall for it. Vote Green.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We've launched a Ramadan appeal at @caabu.bsky.social
Your donation helps us maintain direct pressure on MPs & ministers, to continue to push UK govt to start to hold Israel accountable for the ongoing genocide & its regime of apartheid against Palestinians.
Please donate caabu.org/news/news/ra...
Your Ramadan donation helps maintain direct pressure on MPs and ministers, so that we can continue to push the UK government to start to hold Israel accountable for the ongoing genocide and its regime of apartheid against Palestinians. www.caabu.org/news/news/ra...
Peter Oborne speaking to Caabu about his book: Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza
Watch the online book launch in full here: caabu.org/news/news/pe...
Do join us at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding) on Monday 16 February (6pm UK time GMT), for this event with Peter Oborne, who will be discussing his book Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza.
More details and registration here: caabu.org/events/caabu...
The Commons is today due to debate the obligation to assess the risk of genocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
I expressed my disappointment at the time for this vital debate being shortened and the need for proper scrutiny.
Also giving @upscrolled.bsky.social a try. If you're also on there, let's connect! share.upscrolled.com/en/user/4640...
Also giving @upscrolled.bsky.social a try. If you're also on there, let's connect! share.upscrolled.com/en/user/4640...
Please also follow me over on Instagram too @josephwillits :
www.instagram.com/josephwillits
If you're an EU citizen, please sign this important European Citizens' initiative to stop EU complicity in Israel's genocide. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
It needs 1 million signatures, meeting the required threshold in at least 7 countries, and is open for a year.
On UK complicity in the historic and continued erasure of Palestinians.
The Balfour Declaration (one that most of us educated in the UK were never taught about), is a document of historic shame.
www.instagram.com/reel/DR0CDip...
#Palestine #Gaza
On UK complicity in the historic & continued erasure of Palestinians.
The Balfour Declaration is a document of historic shame.
UK complicity hasn't just happened in the last few years as Israel is committing genocide, apartheid & ethnic cleansing, it's historic. www.instagram.com/reel/DRxNO3_...
Videos of some of the arrests on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/p/DRhmPFsDFK...
Those opposing genocide against Palestinians (the majority of them seemingly pensioners and the elderly), outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Wednesday.
More images here: www.instagram.com/p/DRh-Um8jIK...
With arrests made, the absurdity of this law is yet again laid to bare.
