The city council of Oxford unanimously voted for the support of the boycott, sale and sanction movement (BDS) and signaled a growing international pressure on Israel.
The application introduced by independent City Councilor Barbara Coyne asked the Council to reduce trade and investment relationships with human rights violations and violations of international law.
“As the residents of Oxford City acknowledge, the historical and persistent connections of the UK make the colonial oppression and the lack of decisive measures to protect international law in crimes against humanity,” said Coyle Who argumented In favor of the application as a “city council, teacher, teacher with special needs, parents and grandparents, but mostly as a person”.
The city council detailed the scope of death and destruction in Gaza, of which she says that it must be addressed directly instead of being involved in “intellectual or verbal acrobatics” in order to refuse the crimes in Gaza.
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Council member Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini announced on Monday that the application had been unanimously approved. She described the decision as a step in separating financial connections to the institutions to the institutions that can be separated from the genocide, occupation and apartheid from the colonial colonial colonial. The efforts would continue to urge the sale of institutional investments and pensions of companies that were accused of war crimes, promised the city council.
The unanimous decision quoted The preliminary decision of the ICJ in January 2023, in which it was found that it was plausible that Israel committed a genocide in the Gaza. It asked the country to ensure the unhindered submission of help and to take measures to prevent international negotiations that have repeated and deliberately failed to do so.
The Oxford City Council currently Banks With Barclays, a goal of BDS activists based on his financial relationships with arms companies that provide Israel.
A report on 2024 of the Palestine solidarity campaign discovered that Barclays was held £2 billion stocks and provided Loans of £ 6.1 billion to companies “are used by their weapons, components and military technology by Israel in his attack on Palestinians”.
In the meantime in Gaza after the end of a ceasefire that Was The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) recently launched a new soil offensive that was violated almost 1,000 times against Israel.
The Gaza Health Ministry reports that 792 people were killed in the past week, which increased the entire number of fatalities to over 50,000 since October 7, 2023. While the Israeli troops in Gaza continue to cause chaos and destruction, many experts appreciate the number of fatalities in Gaza of over 186,000.
