Yet Again: The U.K. Government Mischaracterizes Its Obligation to Prevent Genocide in Gaza
JVL Introduction
This short article provides a clear overview of the UK’s legal responsibilities with regard to Gaza
The authors’ judgment, set in the context of the recent UN Commission report on genocide, like Amnesty International, and the Israeli organization B’Tselem before, could not be starker:
The UK government need not agree with these organizations’ conclusions as to whether genocide is ongoing. However, their conclusions, like the ICJ provisional measures orders, mean the government cannot legally avoid its obligation to take action when there is a serious and real risk genocide may occur. Despite protestations to the contrary, Starmer’s government likely knows a proper interpretation of the law would require a change of policy, but the government misconstrues how its duties under the Genocide Convention apply to Gaza, yet again.
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This article was originally published by Just Security on Fri 26 Sep 2025. Read the original here.
Yet Again: The U.K. Government Mischaracterizes Its Obligation to Prevent Genocide in Gaza
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As Starmer’s government the genocide continues and it becomes unavoidable to conclude that they remain knowingly complicit in Israel’s war crimes
Why can we not hear in the media from more Jewish people who are against genocide in Gaza? We keep hearing about the so-called Jewish community as if all Jews support Netenyahu, the IDF and genocide.
Frankly, Starmer knows exactly what his government is doing and the path it is following. Israel First drives not only foreign, but domestic policy. The authoritarian, anti-democratic, denial of free speech and conflation of anti-Zionism with Jew-hatred is deliberate. Starmer and his cut-outs, like Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, cannot be blind to the deliberate, systematic, slaughter of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Shame on them and shame on the “Labour Party”. Neither Tel Aviv, Washington, London nor Berlin believe the law applies to them.