A staggering statement on starvation in Gaza
JVL Introduction
Pro-Israel advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel has caused consternation by hailing Israel’s deliberate starving of Gaza’s population as potentially good for their health.
As The Guardian reports (see below), chief executive Jonathan Turner challenged estimates of huge casualties in Gaza on the basis that they ignore “factors that may increase life expectancy, bearing in mind that obesity was one of the biggest health issues in Gaza prior to the current war”.
Journalist Brian Whitaker commented on X: “The conclusion to be drawn, apparently, is that Gazans who survive the war will emerge leaner and fitter, thanks to the Israeli blockade on food and other essentials preventing them from over-eating.”
Michael Rosen responded: “Belsen had similar health-giving properties.”
This is far from the first time that UKLFI has caused gasps of incredulity with it outlandish claims intended to silence Palestinians and their supporters.
Just last month its leading international law boffin Natasha Hausdorff drew a scornful response from MP Emily Thornberry, chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, when arguing that the world recognised Israel as entirely innocent of breaching international humanitarian law.
Lest it be said that we ignore the voices of Israel’s admirers, here is Melanie Philips leaping to Hausdorff’s defence.
NWI
This article was originally published by The Guardian on Sat 10 May 2025. Read the original here.
UK Lawyers for Israel condemned over claim war may reduce obesity in Gaza
Palestinian rights group says remarks criticising a Lancet analysis on impact of the conflict are ‘sickening’
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A genuinely shocking statement from the UKLFI – who can be offended by a picture made by a Palestinian child but are willing to make a mockery of that same child being deliberately starved
Who, in their right mind, would say that the Palestinian children we see on TV night after night, are overweight. The lack of food is stunting growth, leaving them open to diseases and a swift death if they don’t get some form of nourishment soon. Did the Israelis get their ideas from the Belsen Concentration camp?
UK Lawyers for Israel are not a group of marginal crackpots. Their patrons are drawn from the senior ranks of the legal profession. What does it say about our legal profession when leading members of it apparently think it is OK to deliberately starve little children ?
Can you imagine the reaction if a group of senior UK lawyers advocated the deliberate starvation of Jewish children ?
But isn’t a Palestinian life just as precious as a Jewish life ?
https://www.uklfi.com/about-us-2/our-patrons-2
Defenders of Israel’s genocide are beginning to suffer from a form of Tourette’s. There comes a point where the ugly justifications bubbling about in their minds can no longer be suppressed and pop out, uncensored, in all their incriminating frightfulness.
STARVATION IS GENOCIDE. SAY SO!
To fully understand the weaponizing of elementary living-conditions by the occupying allochthonous settler colonial Zionist Power, one has to understand the true objective behind the cynical use of this criminal
tactics : By the total annihilation of the Gaza-Getto, the mass-murder of tens of thousands of autochthonous Palestinians and now the threat of mass-starvation, Netanyahu and his accomplices in crime (including the international community) are leaving the Palestinians with no other option, then to leave their very own country. And leave it for once and for all : No Right to Return, the very same way, as has happened after the successive Nakba’s after 1947-48.
According to that very same territorial and geo-political objective – and the continuation of the total absence of any official (let alone effective) protest from the rest of the world – the impunitively terrorized innocent Palestinian population on the Westbank has no alternative, but to follow suit.
In Holland the notorious Jewsupremacist and huge proponent of this multi-layered ethnic cleansing operation, Geert Wilders (whose party the PVV is in government now) has been campaigning in favour of all this for decades.
He did so under the motto : Fight the threat of “Eurabia”, and support “Israel” for being the Western bridge-head against the colonisation by the Islam (read : the Palestinians). This xenophobe / Islamophobe motto had been European-wide delivered from the seventies on, by the Mossad couple Littmann-Oreby. the woman also known under her alias Bat Y’Or.
In reality, it has been entirely the other way around : The West promoting and (materially as well as politically and diplomatically) supporting “The Great Replacement” of the (mostly, but not exclusively) Islamically orientated Palestinians, by Zionist Jews.
The Norwegian mass-murderer and self-confessed neo-nazi Breivik, in his Manifesto, did refer to Wilders as one of his ideological “soulmates”.