Editing Clare Short (section)

====Statements on Israel====
[[Image:Clare Short, Birmingham for Gaza, January 2009.jpg|thumb|Short speaking at a rally in Birmingham in January 2009, urging the crowd "not forget the crimes being committed against the people of Gaza" following the [[2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict]]]]
Short has condemned Israel as being guilty of "bloody, brutal and systematic annexation of land, destruction of homes and the deliberate creation of an apartheid system." She has also stated that "the EU and Britain are colluding in this operation and the building of a new apartheid regime" because they give Israel privileged trade access.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0626/breaking53.htm | newspaper=The Irish Times | title=Britain 'colluding' in Israel oppression | date=6 June 2007}}</ref>
Short has expressed support for a boycott of Israel, stating at the 2007 United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace that "The boycott worked for South Africa, it is time to do it again".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3444096,00.html |title=UN summit: Boycott Israel |newspaper=Ynetnews |publisher=Ynetnews.com |date=20 June 1995 |access-date=7 October 2013|last1=Lappin |first1=Yaakov }}</ref><ref>[http://www.ejpress.org/article/19622 Controversial UN-sponsored conference on Palestinians denounces Israeli occupation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823210049/http://www.ejpress.org/article/19622|date=23 August 2013}} from the [[European Jewish Press]].</ref> She also told the conference that Israel is "much worse than the original apartheid state" and that Israel "undermines the international community's reaction to global warming".<ref>{{cite book | title=Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=Anthony Julius | author-link = Anthony Julius |year=2010| page=752| title-link=Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England }}</ref><ref name=Wistrich2010p541>[[Robert S. Wistrich]] (2010). ''A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad''. [[Random House]]. {{ISBN|978-1-4000-6097-9}}. p. 541.</ref>