Ed Miliband: “We act in concert with others in a broad international coalition.”

A strategy of passivity in the face of what is happening is not a strategy.

So I can announce today that we will introduce an import ban on goods from illegal settlements in the occupied territories.

We weighed the costs and the benefits of acting. We thought that we couldn’t just simply stand by because we feared Israeli reaction.

There is a choice that we face in this, which is – do we stand by? Are we bystanders to the end of a long-established government policy and indeed the only hope for security and stability in the Middle East, or do we act?