Here in the U.K., Foreign Minister Ed Miliband has called the actions of the Israeli government a “stain on the conscience of the world.” Miliband drew a standing ovation for his comments as he addressed the Labour conference in Liverpool earlier today.

Ed Miliband: “And I want to say to the millions of people in this country, and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people: We hear you. You were right. … We call out ethnic cleansing by the settler terrorists in the West Bank. We call out the evidence of war crimes in Gaza. We call out Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. And we match words with action. We will ban the import of goods from illegal settlements. We will disrupt the supply lines of British finance, British construction and British services for illegal settlements. And when it comes to the attempt to destroy the two-state solution, this party, this movement, this government says: We will not let you succeed.”

Miliband’s speech came a day after police arrested more than 50 protesters outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, with demonstrators nonviolently urging support for the banned direct action group Palestine Action. Among them was Robert Del Naja, frontman of the British trip-hop group Massive Attack. They were arrested for holding home-made banners reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”