Israel's Militarised Society

The motion

That the Parliament commends Jewish Voice for Peace for drawing attention to what it considers to be the Israeli Government’s harassment of Israeli peace activists belonging to New Profile, involving the confiscation of their computers, their being called for interrogation and their subsequent release on condition of promising not to contact their political friends for 30 days; agrees with New Profile that Israel need not be a militarised society and that the recent acts of the Israeli Government confirm that the militarism of society in Israel harms the sacred principles of democracy, freedom of expression and freedom of political association, and calls on the Israeli Government to cease the harassment of peace activists immediately, to recognise the right of conscientious objection and to release all those imprisoned for refusing to serve in a military capacity in support of the ongoing occupation of Palestinian territory and in support of the continued violation of the human rights of both Palestinians and many Israelis.


No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 5 Green 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3M-03996 by reference.