Shafaqna English– Dozens of mosques across Britain have signed a letter to Prime Minister Starmer urging the government to officially recognize a Palestinian state.
On Tuesday (20 May 2025), Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced that the UK is summoning the Israeli Ambassador in London and suspending its free trade agreement talks with Israel.
Now Mosques and Muslim groups across Britain – including the Association of Muslim Scholars in Great Britain, the London Central Mosque Trust and the Islamic Academy of Manchester – have welcomed the move, while warning it does not go far enough.
The letter sent on Thursday says: “We are profoundly concerned by the UK Government’s failure to act determinedly.
Source: Middle East Eye