PALESTINE rights campaigners have urged Labour to “confront the reality” of Israel’s crime of apartheid rather than to avoid naming it following the party’s decision to censor the terminology.
Labour administrators refused to allow Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PCS) to use the word apartheid in the group’s annual party conference stall or fringe meeting description in the event brochures, the group said today.
PCS said that when it asked why, Labour replied it would not publish content that “we believe to be detrimental to the party.”
PCS director Ben Jamal said that injustice “cannot be tackled unless you are prepared to name it.”
He said: “A Labour government should be fully committed to the upholding of international law and the principle that respect for human rights should be central to all relations with foreign states, including trade relations.
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