by Oui
Thu May 29th, 2025 at 08:54:20 AM EST
Defiant and arrogant … home 🏡
Ian Austin @LordIanAustin
Greetings from Israel!
I’m here to meet businesses & officials to promote trade with the UK.
Trade with Israel provides many thousands of good jobs in the UK and brings people together in the great multi-cultural democracy that is Israel.
Read this: … ⬇️
We'd be foolish to sever our trade links with Israel | PoliticsHome |
[link: https://www.politicshome.com/opinion/article/foolish-to-sever-trade-with-israel]
Trade isn't just exports and quotas, it's values and relationships. That's why I'll be working hard to maintain and strengthen our partnership with Israel.
Thousands of jobs in the UK depend on trade with Israel.
1.7m people work for UK firms exporting goods to Israel. One in eight of the drugs dispensed by the NHS comes from Israeli companies.
Every business and family in the country uses Israeli technology in their homes, computers, cars and phones every day.
ARIEL SHARON REQUEST TO BUSH TO INVADE + PUNISH SADDAM HUSSEIN - NEOCON WARS 2003-2015
The RAF would not be able to get its planes off the ground, and British soldiers would have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan without Israeli defence.
equipment. Intelligence from Israel has foiled terror attacks here in the UK.
The relationship with Israel is worth billions and brings massive benefits to Britain. It is in our national interest, and the decision this week by the government to pause negotiations on a new Free Trade Agreement does not change that.
The situation in Gaza is terrible, as it is in all wars, and the quickest way to get the aid in and save lives is for Hamas to stop fighting and release the hostages. That would end the conflict immediately.
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UK accused of 'garbled messaging' as trade envoy visits Israel to boost links | The Guardian |
Lord Austin's trip to 'drum up business for Britain' comes week after foreign secretary suspended trade talks
The coherence of the UK government's policy towards Israel is under question after Labour permitted its trade envoy to boost commercial links one week after the foreign secretary suspended talks on a further trade deal.
The trade envoy, Lord Austin, was pictured on a visit to Haifa in a post on X shared by the UK's embassy in Israel. The post welcomed Austin to the country as he visited a hi-tech "customs scanning centre", a port and a light rail project that the embassy said showed UK and Israeli "cooperation at every stop".
David Lammy last week had described Israel's behaviour in Gaza as "monstrous and extremist". In an indication of his disapproval, welcomed by most Labour MPs, the foreign secretary suspended new trade talks and launched a review into a pre-existing high-level strategic cooperation roadmap with Israel.
One mainstream Labour MP said: "There is a large group of Labour MPs who are furious this has been allowed to happen after the progress made last week. Austin needs to be fired immediately; the department of business and trade response is completely unacceptable."
Austin's visit was not an independent operation and instead was conducted with the approval and cooperation of government officials.
It did not seem to occur to the Department for Business and Trade that the fierce signals of disapproval sent out by the Foreign Office last week meant it would at least be advisable to postpone Austin's visit.
The reappointment by Labour of Austin, a fierce campaigner against antisemitism in the UK, as trade envoy had led to protests among mainstream pro-Palestinian MPs and campaign groups.
Pete Malynn, executive director of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East, in February this year wrote privately to the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, to express the group's dismay at Austin's appointment. "It sends entirely the wrong message about the government's priorities in the region, calls into question its strategic direction and emboldens those who seek to undermine and criticise the government," he said.
The letter said [Lord] Austin did not regard Gaza as occupied for the past 18 years, referred to the UN's Palestinian relief agency UNRWA as terrorists, opposed the UK's suspension of arms sales to Israel and he had said it was "factually wrong" to claim the West Bank was being concreted over by Israeli settlers.
Jewish Member of Parliament Ian Austin has been suspended as chairman from Midland Heart after an X post condemning UNRWA's connections with the Hamas terrorist organization, Midland Heart confirmed.
In a now-deleted X post, in reference to UNRWA claiming to have no knowledge of a Hamas terror tunnel under their Gaza headquarters, Austin wrote "Everyone better safe than sorry: before you go to bed, nip down and check you haven't got a death cult of Islamist murderers and rapists running their operations downstairs. It's easily done."
Austin later posted, "People have complained about a tweet I issued at the weekend about Hamas' operations centre being underneath UNWRA's offices. It was not my intention to offend anyone and I have deleted it. [JPost]
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INVOKING THE HOLOCAUST TO APPROVE SLAUGHTER OF PALESTINIANS -- IDIOT !!
'I did it for my father' - Outgoing MP Ian Austin on why he quit Labour over "antisemitism" | Jewish Chronicle |
Ian Austin has paid an emotional tribute to his Jewish refugee father in the week he stood down from politics in a bid to stop Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister.
Fighting back the tears as he recalled his final exchange of words with his beloved dad, Fred, who passed away in March, the former Labour MP told the JC: "In the last conversation I had with Dad he said to me: `I want you to know that I love you very much. I am really proud of you. And I really approve of all the decisions you have taken'.
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