Huge opposition building against moving the UK embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. I'm compiling a thread here. I hope @JamesCleverly & @trussliz will take note of the potential damage it will cause in the region & UK. @BoardofDeputies cred is hugely undermined supporting it.
Close to 100 young British Jews & the list is growing, have written to @BoDPres to say her support for it does not represent them - leaders of Jewish societies on univeristy campuses & the people running youth movements. The future leaders of Anglo-Jewry. forms.gle/GGvFK8WoKtHsc3…
The @ReformMovement which represents tens of thousands of British Jews who said:
'they would caution against the government taking action that might undermine peace in the region'
'they would caution against the government taking action that might undermine peace in the region'
https://twitter.com/ReformMovement/status/1579134936527024128?s=20&t=yi5lcQR4Pgb9x9uoJ7ZR8g
The @arableague_gs with Secretary General Aboul Gheit saying 'that moving the British embassy to Jerusalem could compromise the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict'. english.alaraby.co.uk/news/arab-leag…
Every Arab amassbador to the UK, including those from countries that have signed the Abraham accords, who have written to PM Liz Truss imploring her not to proceed with the move. timesofisrael.com/arab-states-re…
The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem who say it would 'represent a further impediment to advancing an already moribund peace process' 
Christian leaders in the UK - the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Jerusalem expert @DanielSeidemann who says 'Jerusalem is a tinderbox. We need cool heads & steady hands - not potentially inflammatory symbolic moves that benefit none...Jerusalem will be healed thru negotiations, and harmed by partisan gestures'.
https://twitter.com/DanielSeidemann/status/1576893741805117440?s=20&t=eUQD10MRsTZZLQr77zdItw
And of course @YachadUK stating that 'rather than working towards a negotiated resolution, we’re helping to entrench the status-quo: occupation, annexation and violence' by supporting the move
https://twitter.com/YachadUK/status/1576910488403083265?s=20&t=eUQD10MRsTZZLQr77zdItw
And this from @hahellyer a senior associate the well know security think tank @RUSI_org who says the move ‘will come at a great cost to British interests’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Important intervention from @WilliamJHague who say writing in @thetimes that moving the embassy would 'break a long standing commitment to work for two states for Israelis and Palstinians, and align Britiain in foreign affaris with Donald Trump...' thetimes.co.uk/article/9c9041…
The @BishopSouthwark who has written to the government to ask them to refrain from moving the embassy
https://twitter.com/BishopSouthwark/status/1579632676981870592?s=20&t=gH4MDc5aVuEc9yFHZ4Iq8g
The Head of Council and DG of the Jerusalem Awqaf saying 'such move undermines the two-state solution, cancels the possible peace agreement demarcation of borders between the two states. It also inflames religious conflict and an already instable situation in Jerusalem...'
Former Conservative Middle East Minister @AlistairBurtUK writing in @thetimes: 'A more secure future for the Middle East cannot be realised by ignoring the centrality of the issues between Israel and the Palestinian people; instead there should be a commitment to resolving them.
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