Scottish National Party MP Tommy Sheppard has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling on the Government to demand Israel reveals the evidence behind a decision to designate six Palestinian groups as terrorist organisations. The EDM, which is backed by Labour MP Apsana Begum, described the declaration made by Israeli Minister of Defence Benny Gantz on October 22 as a “further direct assault on Palestinian civil society in an effort to isolate and suffocate Palestinian human rights defenders.” Gantz had last month declared the six Palestinian human rights groups to be “terror organisations” that had effectively...
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