page_title: Clare Short
section_title: Statements on Israel
hierarchical_section_title: Clare Short / Statements on Israel
caption_attribution_description: English: Clare Short, British Labour politician, speaking at a rally in Birmingham urging the crowd to "not forget the crimes being committed against the people of Gaza".
context_page_description: Clare Short is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 to 2003.
  Short was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent. She stood down as a Member of Parliament at the 2010 general election. Shortly before her retirement from Parliament in 2010, she was strongly rebuked by her own party when she announced her support for a hung parliament, a situation that subsequently occurred at the 2010 election.
context_section_description: Short has condemned Israel as being guilty of "bloody, brutal and systematic annexation of land, destruction of homes and the deliberate creation of an apartheid system." She has also stated that "the EU and Britain are colluding in this operation and the building of a new apartheid regime" because they give Israel privileged trade access.
  Short has expressed support for a boycott of Israel, stating at the 2007 United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace that "The boycott worked for South Africa, it is time to do it again". She also told the conference that Israel is "much worse than the original apartheid state" and that Israel "undermines the international community's reaction to global warming".
caption: Short speaking at a rally in Birmingham in January 2009, urging the crowd "not forget the crimes being committed against the people of Gaza" following the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict
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