Preston Town Hall in Lancaster Road Pic: Blog Preston Plans for Preston City Council to strike up a ‘friendship agreement’ with a Palestinian town have
Plans for Preston City Council to strike up a ‘friendship agreement’ with a Palestinian town have polarised opinion amongst leading figures in the local Muslim and Jewish communities – and left the authority accused of taking sides in the near six-month war in Gaza.that the town hall was exploring the possibility of making the gesture “as a symbol of our sympathy with the people of Palestine the wider Middle East”.
“This is not offering friendship – this is offering support to one side in a war. They’ve invoked the faith covenant, but they’ve broken it and not contacted the covenant – we’ve been sidelined…since the beginning of the war,” Mr. Dable said. A month after the start of the conflict, all 20 of Preston’s mosques demanded the city council’s Labour members write a letter calling on national party leader Sir Keir Starmer to quit over his stance and his then decision not to press for a ceasefire. While such a missive was never sent, the authority as a whole – by an overwhelming majority – later backed a call for an immediate halt to the fighting.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Dable said he was “filled with horror” at another of the friendship agreement proposals – working with children from Preston schools ”to send messages of hope and peace “ to the Middle East. Responding to the criticism, Cllr Brown told the LDRS: “Our consideration of a friendship arrangement is intended to do just that – extend the hand of friendship.
“We’ve decided…to speak up for the people of Gaza, because Gaza is being destroyed,” Cllr Rawlinson said.
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