End settlement trade

A parliamentary debate on banning trade with illegal Israeli settlements is scheduled for Thursday - ask your elected representative to attend and speak out.

The ever-expanding settlements built on Palestinian homes and land, are widely accepted as illegal under international law. Yet trade with companies linked to these settlements, continues. The UK government has repeatedly condemned the settlements but must take concrete steps against them. Stopping this trade is the bare minimum required to ending UK complicity in the daily crimes being committed against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The financing of settlement-linked companies and production of goods for international export is crucial for the economic viability of the settlements, drives further settlement expansion, and normalises Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.

Every day that the government fails to ban trade with illegal settlements, the UK is breaching its international law obligations and exposing the British public to potential involvement in criminality. Under anti-money laundering rules, any goods or monies generated from Israel’s illegal settlements are criminal property. Knowingly handling criminal property is considered a money laundering offence.

Use the template to send an email to your local MP and ask them to ask attend Thursday’s debate and support a ban on settlement trade.

A parliamentary debate on banning trade with illegal Israeli settlements is scheduled for Thursday - ask your elected representative to attend and speak out.

The ever-expanding settlements built on Palestinian homes and land, are widely accepted as illegal under international law. Yet trade with companies linked to these settlements, continues. The UK government has repeatedly condemned the settlements but must take concrete steps against them. Stopping this trade is the bare minimum required to ending UK complicity in the daily crimes being committed against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The financing of settlement-linked companies and production of goods for international export is crucial for the economic viability of the settlements, drives further settlement expansion, and normalises Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.

Every day that the government fails to ban trade with illegal settlements, the UK is breaching its international law obligations and exposing the British public to potential involvement in criminality. Under anti-money laundering rules, any goods or monies generated from Israel’s illegal settlements are criminal property. Knowingly handling criminal property is considered a money laundering offence.

Use the template to send an email to your local MP and ask them to ask attend Thursday’s debate and support a ban on settlement trade.

End settlement trade

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On Thursday 9 July 2026, a backbench debate titled “A ban on trade with illegal Israeli Settlements” will take place. As your constituent, I am asking that you attend this debate and make use of the suggested interventions to help ensure an end to UK trade with Israel’s settlements.  
 
In its July 2024 Advisory Opinion, the International Court of Justice reaffirmed that states are under a concrete obligation to ‘… prevent trade or investment relations that assist in the maintenance of the illegal situation created by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’ (see paragraph 278). This requires taking action well beyond banning trade with the illegal settlements. Banning settlement trade is the bare minimum that the UK must do.

Earlier this year, Global Legal Action Network, along with 21 other civil society organisations wrote to the government asking for an immediate ban based on the UK’s obligations under international law, and the exposure of the public to widespread money laundering.

Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, of Palestine, and the occupied Syrian Golan exist because of the war crimes and crimes against humanity that underpin them. UK criminal law is clear – knowingly selling settlement goods or making money from Israel’s illegal settlements is money laundering.

However, food grown and produced on stolen land is regularly sold in our supermarkets, and UK banks finance settlement-linked companies

The government must answer the following key questions:

As goods produced in Israel’s illegal settlements only exist because of the war crimes that underpin them, does the government agree that every time a business knowingly imports a settlement good into the UK and sells it to consumers, it runs the risk of committing money laundering offences?

What is the government doing to protect UK businesses and consumers from the widespread risk of criminality that occurs when an Israeli settlement good is allowed to enter the UK market?’

Why has government not banned the import of goods produced in Israel’s illegal settlements akin to the ban on goods produced in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine?

The Financial Conduct Authority is under a mandatory duty to warn the UK finance industry of types of transactions that involve a high risk of money laundering. Can the government ensure that the FCA publishes guidance on the risk of money laundering from providing services to settlement-linked companies?

As your constituent I am asking you to attend this important debate, to ensure that the UK is not only fully acting in accordance with law but that all diplomatic, economic and political steps are taken to support the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people.

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