US Warplanes Out of Belfast

Belfast City Council calls for an end of the US military's use of Aldergrove Airport. People Before Profit Councillor Michael Collins proposed the motion passed last night.

US Warplanes Out of Belfast

People Before Profit has brought a successful motion to Belfast City Council calling for an end to using Belfast Aldergrove Airport by US military aircraft. The motion was proposed by Cllr Michael Collins and had the support of many Palestine campaigners across the city.  

It is disgraceful that Belfast Aldergrove Airport has been used as a transit point for US military aircraft and cargo en route to Europe and the Middle East. As reported by the Irish News, over 60 military flights have been detected using Aldergrove airport as a transit point during the 18 months of Israel's assault on Gaza. Over a dozen of these flights were found to have travelled to Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar: a key transfer point for large-scale munitions between the US and Israel.  These flights were, therefore, likely carrying weapons and munitions which were used in the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Allowing this to continue without a robust challenge from our political institutions would signify a complicity on the part of our own devolved government with Israel's genocide, and the wider US imperial project. We will continue to fight until the Stormont Assembly takes a firm position against this practice and we redouble our efforts to force the British and Irish governments to implement full Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions for a full break with Israeli apartheid.