The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) has sent a letter to the UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Peter Kyle, demanding the cancellation of the so-called “Great Israeli Real Estate Event 2026,” due to be held at an undisclosed venue in London on 14 June, and warning that permitting it to proceed would facilitate the commission of a war crime on British soil and place the United Kingdom in direct breach of its obligations under international law.
The AOHR UK explained that the event markets and facilitates the sale of property in illegal settlements of the Israeli occupation in the occupied Palestinian territory, advertised alongside properties inside the territory held by the Israeli occupation, and supported by financing arrangements said to include a bank linked to the Israeli occupation that funds settlement construction. It noted that the event’s website displayed a map presenting the whole of historic Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as territory of the Israeli occupation, alongside imagery of occupied East Jerusalem.
The AOHR UK letter affirmed that the settlements of the Israeli occupation are illegal under international law, which prohibits an occupying power from transferring parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, and that United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016) reaffirmed that these settlements “have no legal validity and constitute a flagrant violation under international law,” and that the transfer by an occupying power of its population into occupied territory constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
