Labour: Palestine, cuts and disaster imperialism
JVL Introduction
The Starmer led so called Labour government has no morality. Its foreign policy is totally unethical, most obviously in its refusal to sanction Israel over its genocide in Gaza and its ongoing occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice and ignored by the UK and most other governments. That Starmer’s first response to Israel’s “response” to the Hamas attack on 7th October 2023 was that Israel did have the right to stop electricity, aid and more reaching Gaza was appalling. But it is wider and deeper even than Gaza and ignoring the International Court of Justice rulings. It includes saying nothing about Trump’s arrests and forced regime change in Venezuela and it includes the cuts in international aid in order to fund an increase in defence spending.
This article focuses mainly on the disastrous impact Britain’s policies, its “disastrous imperialism” has for the Palestinian people. I am also reminded of the analysis in Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine:The Rise of Disaster Capitalism published in 2007. Clearly disaster suits the Empire and suits those for whom profit is the only thing that matters and so climate disaster and ongoing wars, how much people suffer are irrelevant or even necessary.
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This article was originally published by Tribune on Sat 4 Apr 2026. Read the original here.
Disaster Imperialism
Faced with the horror of the Gaza genocide, we must not forget that Israel’s actions depend on the support of global economic and political structures that continue — and update — historic forms of oppression like the British Empire.
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I think this article has credit but the question follows; why is the wrtier still a member of the labour Party and one of its MPs?
Cutting vaccination programmes will mean more people will die. And, of course, such diseases could come to this country.
And this is being done to boost the profits of arms companies. Absolutely shameful.
And, by the way, the current Labour government opposes nuclear disarmament too.