Yesterday, a letter from 600 legal experts, including four former Supreme Court judges, was published, arguing that the UK government should impose an arms embargo on Israel, impose sanctions on individuals and entities who had ‘made statements inciting genocide against Palestinians’, and suspend negotiations on a new bilateral trade agreement with Israel. It also demanded the UK
When I edited this newspaper, I was proud to employ Joshua Rozenberg (ex-BBC) as our legal affairs editor. He stood in that great tradition of specialist journalists which 21st-century media have mostly lost. That tradition insisted on specialist accuracy, defying the journalistic urge to oversimplify. The law is a speciality in which accuracy makes all the difference.