Labour’s suspends Councillors who vote for peace
JVL Introduction
Labour is still busy suspending councillors because they have supported calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. We cannot imagine what heinous misdemeanour Labour considers this to be. They have not suspended those MPs who voted for a ceasefire so really what is this about? Do some in Labour believe that calls for a ceasefire are antisemitic? Did those ceasefire motions criticise Israel? Is it because they failed to go along with the unbalanced narrative, contained, for example, in Labour’s Ceasefire amendment in Parliament, that while Hamas killed Israelis, what followed was a “heartbreaking loss of life” in Gaza but with no agent named as responsible?
JVL’s Mike Cushman who lives in the same constituency as suspended Jewish Councillor Martin Abrams is quoted in the article: “It is sad that Lambeth Labour insisted on doing this even after the national party has moved much closer to calling for a ceasefire and on the same evening as Worthing Council voted unanimously, including all its Labour councillors, to support a call for an immediate ceasefire.”
This article was originally published by Morning Star on Tue 27 Feb 2024. Read the original here.
Labour suspends councillors for backing calls for Gaza ceasefire
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I am increasingly having to ask this question when people talk about “antisemitism”. Sad times.
What definition of antisemitism are you referring to? The one that persecutes Jews or the one that persecutes socialist Jews?
There seems no point. LP’s actions are shameful, and the Party does not seem close to shamed reconsideration. LP bears heavy responsibility for the consequences.
Starmer will hesitate to take action against MPs to maintain the apparent illusion of unity. It’s another matter with councillors because that’s just a hidden cost. Labour has dived into the abyss.
Ken Loach said over two years ago that the “moment” was ripe for a new political party, headed by the Trades Unions, MP’s like those from the Campaign Group and local activists at grassroots level. It appears that “moment” is long past, but the new political landscape has been made clear by the ideological chasm created by the Zionists Genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. The huge groundswell of activism in support of the Palestinians against Genocide and the treachery of Starmer and Sunak, means the establishment and its apparatchiks, including right-wing Union Leaders and politicians is the new “enemy”. It’s the enemy of social change, of the right to protest, and of what the allegedly “socialist” Labour Party once stood for (?).
We need to stand up and keep protesting, no matter the cost, thinking of the 30,000 already dead, the 70,000 injured and those still buried under the rubble in the concentration camp known as “The Gaza Strip”.
Its absolutely intolerable to have a barrister voting for genocide but that is what Starmer is – a fascist in the making. I admire all those who have stood with their conscience and no right from wrong. Complain to the Law Society and the legal ombudsman. He should be disbarred as do any other lawyer voting for crimes against humanity. This country and the Labour Party is being run by Israeli’s and peter Meddling Mandelson I have a feeling. I will never vote Labour again.