UK: Stop the 'Great Israeli Real Estate Event' - Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians while stolen land is being sold in London

Amnesty International UK is demanding the UK government stop a real estate event scheduled to take place in London on 14 June that includes companies openly advertising the sale of land in Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank, and to initiate an investigation into the organisers.

The 'Great Israeli Real Estate Event' is a travelling roadshow that has held events across North America and is now coming to London. It comes as a new Amnesty report published this week lays bare Israel's state-led ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank – documenting the displacement of at least 5,910 Palestinian Bedouin and herding community members since 2023, the demolition of over 3,400 homes and structures in Area C, and an unprecedented surge in state-backed settler violence and land grabs.

The event also follows the UK government's announcement of new sanctions targeting settler financing networks - a step Amnesty says does not go nearly far enough, leaving the architects of the violence and forced displacement untouched.

Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty International UK's Crisis Response Manager, said:

"While Israel ethnically cleanses Palestinians from their ancestral lands, a real estate event that includes companies openly trying to sell stolen Palestinian land is coming to London. This event, which profits from war crimes and apartheid, is an affront to every Palestinian that has had their home, their land, and their livelihood cruelly taken away from them by Israel’s illegal occupation.

"Thousands of Palestinians have been forced from their homes at gunpoint, their villages demolished, their livelihoods destroyed. Amnesty is calling on all states, including the UK, to halt all trade, cooperation and investment relations enabling Israel’s unlawful occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and impose sanctions on implicated officials.

"The UK cannot condemn settlements with one hand while allowing them to be openly marketed here with the other. Stop this event, ban settlement trade, and start treating Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign with the urgency it demands.

"Every property sold in an Israeli settlement at this event entrenches illegal occupation and apartheid and deepens the suffering of Palestinian families - the UK must not allow it to happen here.”