As a British Palestinian I feel let down by the Labour Party
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
Hamza Ali Shah is a British Palestinian political researcher and writer based in London.
Here, on the Left Foot Forward blog, he expresses his great disappointment at Labour’s failure to speak out in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle in recent weeks and months.
This article was originally published by Left Foot Forward on Thu 27 May 2021. Read the original here.
As a British Palestinian I feel let down by the Labour Party
‘It is extraordinary and incredibly telling that a supposedly internationalist party headed by a former human rights lawyer could have such a languid attitude to the oppressed.’
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Keir Starmer has described himself as a “Zionist without qualification”. In practice, this means he will support anything which Israel does. The only way of changing the Labour Party’s unqualified support for Israel is to get rid of Starmer as leader.
Perhaps Hamza Ali Shah is unaware of Keir Starmer’s link with Israeli donors and his avowed ‘Israel First’ zionism?