Amid a global wave of repression against Palestine solidarity activists, the British government this week announced it would be suspending a small number of licenses for arms exports to Israel.
But the token measure, announced on Monday by foreign minister David Lammy, amounts to less than 9 percent of British arms export licenses to Israel.
And, as I argued on The Electronic Intifada livestream on Wednesday, the move was more of a smokescreen for British complicity in genocide than anything else.
Britain is a leading partner in the genocide, as the arrest and draconian bail conditions of Sarah Wilkinson last week shows. Wilkinson is a prominent activist and social media poster on Palestinian rights.
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