Last week, a group of British MPs despatched an open letter to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper calling for sanctions on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The case is clear cut. For nearly three years, Netanyahu has presided over what most experts, including the United Nations, describe as a genocide in Gaza.
This year alone, he’s launched an illegal war on Iran, while killing more than 4,000 people in Lebanon and displacing hundreds of thousands of others.
Netanyahu has also given licence to Israeli settler gangs to rampage across the occupied West Bank, in a terrifying campaign of ethnic cleansing.
The primary focus of the MPs’ letter, however, concerns none of the above. They concentrate on the horrifying treatment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
