READ: Hundreds of UK business leaders demand action on Israel

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Hundreds of business leaders in the United Kingdom — including a former adviser to the king and a sustainability consultant descended from Holocaust survivors — are calling on the government to take action against Israel as the crisis in Gaza worsens.

As of this morning, 762 people have signed a statement calling on Britain to cease all arms trade with Israel, sanction those accused of violating international law — ostensibly including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he is wanted for arrest by the International Criminal Court — invest in screening to stop the UK financing “complicit” companies, and enforce the United Nations’ principles on business and human rights across the UK’s economic systems.

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