LONDON: Employees of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office have been instructed to resign if they disagree with the government’s Gaza policy.
A letter addressed to Foreign Secretary David Lammy last month, signed by over 300 government workers, expressed concerns about UK arms sales and the Israeli military’s “stark … disregard for international law” in the Palestinian territory.
Nick Dyer and Sir Oliver Robbins, the department’s two highest-ranking civil officials, responded to the letter by telling signatories that “your ultimate recourse is to resign from the Civil Service if your disagreement with any aspect of government policy or action is profound.” This is a respectable course.
(There is) frustration and a deep sense of disappointment that the space for challenge is being further shut down,” an official who signed the original complaint told the BBC. This letter represents the fourth instance of civil personnel reaching out to high-ranking authorities to voice their concerns regarding the UK’s stance on the Gaza War.
It was sent on May 16 and signed by London-based workers and staff of foreign embassies. Potential violations of international law, the number of fatalities in Gaza, and Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank were among the subjects discussed.
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