Declassified UK investigation forces Labour to bar Israeli soldiers from training in UK

An investigation by Declassified UK (DCUK), and testimony by its author to the Peace and Justice Project’s ‘Gaza Tribunal’ appear to have forced the UK government to ‘bar’ Israeli soldiers from training in the UK.

Declassified: forcing change over Israeli soldiers in the UK

DCUK investigative journalist John McEvoy told the tribunal that not only had the UK government trained Israeli soldiers in Britain since the beginning of the genocide and then first stonewalled, then lied, about doing so – but had also granted special immunity to a string of senior military figures involved in the Gaza genocide and in the murder of Palestinian journalists, to protect them from arrest for war crimes and even from private prosecutions:

And along with the above clip of his testimony, McEvoy has posted an update that, as the Telegraph has reported, the government has now ‘barred’ Israeli troops and officers from coming to the UK for training:

Last week I testified at the Gaza Tribunal about how Israeli soldiers have been training in Britain throughout the genocide. The Telegraph now reports that Israelis have been barred from training in the UK.

The Telegraph did not appear to regard the news particularly positively, instead quoting Israeli figures as they condemned the decision, such as Amir Baram, director general of Israel’s defence ministry, who described it as:

a profoundly dishonourable act of disloyalty to an ally at war.

But Skwawkbox and Canary readers know better. So did respondents to McEvoy’s tweets, who all congratulated McEvoy and his publication for their work and achievement, along the lines of the examples below:

Of course, training Israelis in the UK is a drop in the ocean of the Starmer regime’s collaboration in Israel’s genocide. That will not be properly rectified until the UK treats Israel as the murderous, apartheid, pariah state that it is – and Starmer and his cronies are on trial in the Hague.

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