Starmer: Backtracking is not enough
JVL Introduction
Harry Stannard describes the impact in Leicester of the Labour Leader’s pronouncements on the war on Gaza. And it is not only in Leicester as this article goes on to explain. Muslim councillors and members are particularly angry but many Labour members and supporters are disappointed, disgusted and furious. The overhelming majority of all people in the UK want a ceasefire now and the Tory Prime Minister is not calling for it and neither is Labour. What use are Humanitarian “pauses” if the bombs are going to rain down as soon as the trucks are through. The Labour leadership is now worried about votes as they should be, indications are that “fewer than 5%) currently plan to vote Labour, compared to over 70% who voted Labour at the last general election”
And, more importantly, Labour should also be expressing their worry – and outrage – about the thousands of Palestinian people being killed as well as, rightly, expressing their shock that 1400 Israelis were murdered and 224 captured.
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This article was originally published by Labour Hub on Thu 26 Oct 2023. Read the original here.
Labour and Gaza – the impact on Leicester
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This is the logical outcome of being ‘a Zionist without qualification’.
Maybe the voters will at last dictate to the LP, how can any person vote for what the LP supports in Palestine.
One of the by-products of Starmer’s control is that ordinary Labour Party members are blocked from raising Israel at meetings. Resolutions are routinely ruled out of order, discussions deemed inappropriate, and most bizarre of all, motions are rejected ‘in case they cause distress’. If the murder of civilians doesn’t cause you distress you’re identifying as a psychopath
He doesn’t understand ethnic minorities at all. He made the same faux pas about Black Lives Matter and ‘defunding the police’. In fact, I really don’t think that he cares about the ethnic minority vote. It looks like he’s prepared to lose it to attract conservative voters. In the end, however, we all, whatever our colour and background, demand justice for Palestinians and the peaceful resolution of the conflict for the sake of all people.
The latest events are bringing it all to a crunch. Perhaps it is high time people realised that Zionism is incompatible with the Jewish religion. Apart from a few megalomaniacs, the world wants peace. From the outside, it appears to me that the education system in the State of Israel has brain-washed the children into being Zionist and not to think for themselves. This currently has consequences.
People like Liz Kendall should be targeted as war criminals. We should ensure that Muslim and Black people have a socialist alternative and make it clear that they should not vote for a racist Starmer Labour Party.
Jews in the East End in 1900 and 1906 voted against the anti-alienist Tories and we should have the same approach to Starmer Labour – no support whatsoever
My MP – the worse than useless Khaled Mahmood of Perry Barr Birmingham CLP, whixh has an ethnic minority population of 60%…. came out on the telly today in support of Starmers’ comments. But then Birmingham is the beating heart of Progress.
Please god we’re getting close to a tipping point for a new left party ?!
Well done Leicester for saying the things that we have been echoing since 7th October. Starmer will never be a leader of caring Socialists, but a barrier against our anger at Israel. Any proper leader would be agreeing with the hundreds of thousands of people who have been marching for Gaza around the world. A new leader is needed or a new socialist party that cares about people other than the bosses.
Maybe Sir Keir thinks that if Gaza is reduced in size by half the problem will be, ipso facto also halved…progress!
Starmer’s ‘Loyalty’ is writ large by his actions. Sadly for one with his alleged ‘qualifications’ and experience, it would appear that ‘Justice’ or ‘Law’ are used when convenient.
Starmer position on humanitarian crisis in Gaza is another demostration on how much he has pushed Labour policies to the right. Once again he has echoed the Conservative views on a crisis which has horrified the world. What Hamas did goes against any civilised principle, but this crisis MUST be anlysed in a historical
context and all diplomatic effort should be made if we are to believe that Netanyahu and the leaders of the EU and the US deserve to be called civilised.
I hope that Starmer’s support for Israel becomes his downfall. It will need a bad GE vote for Labour to force him to resign and those Rightwing MPs to lose their grip on the Party and the Members get to chose policies again.