“Ban all trade that aids or assists Israel’s military actions in Gaza or its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, including all trade with Israel’s illegal settlements.”
The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy has released the following motion template for Labour members to submit to this year’s Labour Party Annual Conference.
Conference notes:
- On 9 August, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the US-backed 15-point plan for Gaza.
- On 10 August, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that Israeli military operations continue across Gaza, resulting in Palestinian civilian casualties.
- On 16 August, an Israeli minister called for routine daily killing of dozens of Palestinians in Gaza.
- The NPF Annual Report 2026 does not reference any atrocities committed in Gaza by the Israeli state, but Israel has violated the October 2025 Gaza ‘ceasefire’ thousands of times, with more than 1,250 Palestinians killed in that time, and in June 2026 the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry report confirmed that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is ongoing.
- Israel is on trial for genocide at the ICJ and in 2024 the ICJ judged that Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to be unlawful and ruled that Israel was in violation of the international prohibition on racial segregation and apartheid.
Conference welcomes Andy Burnham’s apology for Labour’s stance on Palestine and acknowledges Ed Milband’s statement on 11 August, but believes decisive action is needed against Israel’s genocide.
Accordingly, Conference calls on the government to:
- Accept the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry that Israel has committed genocide.
- Impose comprehensive sanctions on Israel, including a full arms embargo.
- Ban all trade that aids or assists Israel’s military actions in Gaza or its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, including all trade with Israel’s illegal settlements.
- You can put forward, for consideration in your CLP, one of the model Contemporary Motions, attached here as a Word document and here as a PDF file.
- You can put forward, for consideration in your CLP, the model Reference Back to the National Policy Forum (NPF) Report, attached here as a Word document and here as a PDF file.
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