Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee (GGEC) welcomes the recent statement from Glasgow City Council’s (GCC) main parties, except the Tories, in expressing their support for Gaza and the people of Palestine. We also welcome GCC’s acknowledgment of South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accepted the “plausible case” of a genocide being committed by Israel. GGEC further note GCC’s pledge not to engage in any actions that might inadvertently enable the genocide. We thus urge the leading SNP, Labour and Green council party groups to implement our proposed set of measures, helping to ensure that GCC are not, as stipulated by the ICJ, enabling the genocide in any way. As Green councillor Jon Molyneux has affirmed in relation to the GCC statement: “The ICJ ruling on preventing genocide is significant and it’s important now that the council’s deeds match its words.”
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Statement from Glasgow City Council’s SNP, Labour and Green groups (9 February 2024):
“As the leaders of the three biggest parties represented on Glasgow City Council, on behalf of our group members, on the occasion of the timely visit of a delegation to the city chambers from our twin city of Bethlehem, we jointly renew the call we made at our meeting of 26 October 2023 for an immediate, full and lasting ceasefire in the war in Gaza, and to reiterate our condemnation of acts of terror and the use of collective punishment. We express our deep sorrow and horror that more than 27,000 Palestinians have now been killed by Israel, including more than 10,000 children, and that many more have had their homes destroyed and have been forced into appalling living conditions. We have noted the interim verdict of the International Court for Justice in the case brought by South Africa, which places six binding actions on Israel, including to do all it can to prevent genocide, refraining from harming or killing Palestinians, urgently getting basic aid to Gaza, and to punish any incitement to genocide. We commit to taking the necessary steps to ensure that the practices and policies of Glasgow City Council are not at risk of inadvertently enabling genocide. We are glad to have the opportunity to welcome colleagues from Bethlehem to Glasgow and express our solidarity with and condolences to them and with all Palestinians, particularly the many thousands who have lost their loved ones, homes and health to the violence inflicted on Gaza; as we also reiterate our solidarity and sympathies with the Israeli civilians and others who have lost loved ones to Hamas terrorism and kidnapping and note that this was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. We are also aware that many Jewish and Muslim people alike in Glasgow have felt less secure in these last months and renew our determination to be alert to and stand up against antisemitic and Islamophobic discrimination and hate crime, which must have no place in our city.”
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