The Green Party has demanded that the UK government suspend Israel’s senior diplomat in the UK. It follows the Israeli parliament’s legalising of the death penalty for Palestinians accused of “terrorism”.
Green Party’s Mothin Ali: execution law “unconscionable”
Reporting for the Canary, Maddison Wheeldon wrote:
Fascist Israel minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has pushed through a law in the Knesset which will authorise the death penalty – by hanging – of Palestinians. Specifically, this law will apply by default to Palestinians who have been tried in military court and found guilty of committing a fatal attack.
62 Israeli officials voted for the fatal bill, with 47 voting against.
Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali has now said:
These military courts are conducted without proper legal representation or juries. This is unconscionable – the government must immediately suspend Israel’s UK [chargé d’affaires].
The chargé d’affaires is the senior diplomat at the Israeli embassy. Israel has had no ambassador to the UK since Tzipi Hotovely left in September 2025. As Middle East Eye reported, Tzachi Braverman is the recently appointed Israeli ambassador to the UK. However, he is currently not in his role. Braverman is unable to leave Israel after being questioned by police on suspicion of obstructing an investigation into the leak of a classified military document.
Braverman is Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff.
An apartheid state
Green Party deputy leader Ali continued:
Introducing the death penalty into Israel’s civil legal system, in a way that rights groups say will de facto only apply to Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, will result in Palestinians being killed without a fair trial.
Palestinian citizens of Israel already lack certain rights granted to Jewish citizens, and their second-class status was made explicit with the passing of the 2018 Jewish Nation-State Law.
It’s time for the Labour government to stand for truth: Israel is an apartheid state which is conducting a genocide in Gaza. Just like apartheid South Africa, it must be treated as a pariah state until the genocide is stopped, apartheid is ended, and Palestinians are granted the same rights as Israelis.
He also called for the UK to stop selling weapons and weapon components to Israel:
The government must make clear that it will not continue to sell any military weapons or weapons components to Israel. The Green Party calls for Britain to impose sanctions on Israel, as most of the world community did to South Africa, when it was also operating an apartheid state.
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By Willem Moore
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