Catalogue Number
NMLH.2024.59
Object Name
poster
Title
'Don't Bomb Syria. Stop the War Coalition'
Place
Syria, UK
People
Stop the War Coalition, UK government, Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh)
Events
Operation Shader (UK military intervention against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria)
Description
A black poster with white text saying 'Don't Bomb Syria'. The 'a' in Syria has an illustrated blood splatter on it. Text at the bottom gives details about the Stop the War Coalition.
This poster was created in protest against Operation Shader, which is the UK military operation against Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) in Iraq and Syria. Operation Shader began in August 2014, and consists of British air strikes/bombings to support allied ground forces attempting to force Islamic State to withdraw from the territory it had claimed in Iraq and Syria. Figures in January 2019 from the UK Ministry of Defence claimed that 1700 British bombings had injured four thousand three hundred and fifteen people, and killed one civilian. The Royal Air Force had conducted twenty percent of all the bombings in the allied campaign, it's most intense campaign in 25 years.
The Stop the War Coalition is a peace movement organisation that opposes all violent conflicts, and was founded in September 2001, to oppose the invasion of Afghanistan by the UK and USA. They have opposed all military action by the UK since their founding, including the invasion of Iraq, and military support for Ukraine. Stop the War argued that the air strikes against Islamic State would fuel extremism, not end it.
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