Palestine becoming ‘an election issue’ claim
September 2026
Palestine Solidarity Campaign have made the claim that ‘public anger over Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and Britain’s response was increasingly being expressed‘. The claim was made by Aimee Shalan who will become director in November.
She said Palestine becoming an electoral issue both domestically and nationally. She pointed to Ed Miliband’s recent statement and the change in policy towards the West Bank in particular. The West Bank appeared in the news in recent days because of the latest incident of severe violence involving over 100 militant settlers who overwhelmed security forces in an attack on the village of Jalud.
Several senior politicians, including the president Isaac Herzog, have condemned the violence but there is an element of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. Settler violence has been overtly and covertly supported by politicians and the security forces have up to now, stood by while Palestinians were attacked and their properties destroyed. It is a bit late to complain now when the scale of violence and ethnic cleansing has become so extreme.
Miliband spoke at the Labour conference but there is still concern about how real British actions are. It is reported that British diplomats have told the Americans the actions are merely ‘symbolic‘. It is noted that he did not accuse the Israelis of genocide.
Vigil

The 147th vigil was held on Saturday with nearly 40 in attendance. There was a good response to the invitation to ‘honk for peace’. The Salisbury MP, Mr John Glen. has not appeared and there was no mention of the vigil again in his weekly column courtesy of the Salisbury Journal. He is a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel group.
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Good morning America – Time to vote the DemonCRAPS out of Washington. The “Palestine” invoked by the UN, ICC, and EU – a political fiction, not a historical reality; no different from the NT & Koran frauds.
As you awake this morning please recall the Founding Fathers who rejected cutting a permanent alliance with Europe. Washington later urged avoiding permanent alliances and keeping clear of ordinary European Civil Wars such as the 30 Years War, WWI & WWII; while also saying existing commitments must be honored and temporary alliances like the one which Washington cut with France in 1778 appropriate in emergencies on national existence. Currently today London together with its UN\EU allies – seek to impose “taxation without representation” upon Israeli settlements in Yechuda and Shomron; it condemns the Israeli democracy for making war upon Gaza after Oct 7th 2023 Shemini Atzeret massacre and seizure of Israeli hostages similar to the 1979 American embassy hostages.
London presumes that BLOW BACK does not apply to them for their illegal ’39 White Paper, which UN\EU allies seek to declare where Israelis can live within the borders of ’67 Israel together with its captured territories. These UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL LAW vile imperialist States – they have no shame. Universal international law which the UN and ICC promotes does not remotely resemble the international model of the laws of the High Seas – which equally impacts all ships which sail upon the Ocean waters. Conventionally dated from 1517, Luther’s Reformation, the Protestant and still later Eastern Orthodox churches likewise rejected Jewish self determination where they could and could not live across European countries.
London strongly approves of dividing Jerusalem into a post WWII divided Berlin. The Vatican jabber of imposing a decree that Jerusalem exist as an international city … the same Vatican which decreed that Jewish refugees forced to dwell in ghetto gulags for 3 Centuries till Napoleon spanked the bottom of the Poop till he bleed from his nose.
The first illegally established Jewish ghetto was in Venice in 1516. The Venetian Senate ordered Jews living in the city to move into the designated area on March 29, 1516. In 1555, Pope Paul IV’s bull: “Cum nimis absurdum” ordered Jews in Rome to live in a walled, gated district and imposed other restrictions. Serves as a direct precedent for the sanctions imposed by London and Paris – together with its Jew hating allied States – which decree where Jews can and cannot live in Yechuda and Shomron. In effect Europe like the Khartoum Resolution wherein the Arab League decree their famous 3 No’s post the Nakba Allah crushing defeat of that dead “Universal-Tawhid” God.
Post War 1967 “neutral London and Paris” sought to decree land for peace revisionist history — as proven by UN SC 2334 political theater, which declares Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and Samaria as “ILLEGAL”. In 2024 the ICC, created by the Rome Treaty – which Israel refused to join that treaty alliance – declared that the Prime Minister of Israel a war criminal. Together with the ICJ which demanded that Israel must cease new settlement activity in the ‘occupied Palestinian territory and evacuate settlers’. Palestine ceased to exist the moment that David Ben Gurion declared the name of the new Jewish State of Israel; like Dutch New Amsterdam ceased to exist after the British defeated the Dutch. The bogus claim that “international law” either does or does not abolish the name Palestine – utterly absurd. Just as New Amsterdam changed to New York and Constantinople changed to Istanbul. The League of Nation Palestine Mandate does not compare to the Treaty of Breda where a defeated nation ceded its lands over to England. Never ever existed an Arab independent Palestinian state.
The Palestine mandate Britain return back to the UN after the Irgun blew up the British headquarters which they placed within the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. The League of Nations never a sovereign transfer of territories between nation states. Rather it obligated the British administration to facilitate Jewish immigration and settlement. Britain never the “owner” of the land but rather a restricted “trustee. When those cowards withdrew in 1948 they did not then or now “return” sovereignty to any Arab state, least of all Palestine. Israel’s admission to the UN in 1949 effectively fulfilled the League Mandate core purpose.
The Fourth Geneva Convention and the principle that territory acquired by force during war cannot be annexed or permanently settled, treating the West Bank and East Jerusalem as occupied territory under international humanitarian law; by which the Britain and its UN “pals” seek to condemn Israel ignores the post WWII forced displacement of almost 18 million Germans and 25% of Germany unilaterally awarded to Poland and Russia – consequent to the Potsdam Agreement of 1945 fundamentally negates the post ’67 UN 242 demand – Land for Peace.
The pretexts of European imperialism dolled up as the Jewish question which depicts London and its UN\EU thugs which frame the 6 Day War defeat of Nakba Allah as concerning occupation, territory, settlements, and the rights of Palestinians etc ignores the fact that not till the issuance of the 2nd White Paper did Arabs start to warm to and embrace the vision of a European imposed Arab Palestine dominated State which houses a 25% dhimmi Jewish minority housed in enclosed ghettoes as determined by Arab overlords.
As American colonies rejected the rule of law imposed by King George III so too Israel rejects UN decrees which condemn Israel but ignore other countries similar but far worse policy behaviors. International Law which unilaterally discriminates target nations, akin to coward Chamberlain’s ‘Peace in our Time’ worthless piece of paper – which surrendered the Independent nation of the Czech Republic to Hitler in 1938 – weigh how both the Encyclopedia Britanica and Wiki both minimize and water down this decision of political theater.
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