This is an appalling lack of judgement and the surest sign yet that Britain will continue to be Trump's lackey.
The war in Iran has cost countless lives, and breached international law - yet we continue to support it.
Very, very concerning. Very, very continuity Starmer.
Imagine death penalty for Christians only, for Jews only, for Bavarians or Parisians only. People belonging to a group presumed guilty and deprived of civilians status.
Only because they want to live as a people. Free on their land.
This is what colonial repression looks like.
Wes Streeting has been made Defence Secretary.
In his released correspondence with Peter Mandelson, he said:
“Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes.”
Journalists should ask him:
1) Does he stand by that?
2) What legal obligations does the UK therefore have?
Here, the new Foreign Secretary rightly says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “illegal”.
He says no such thing about Israel’s genocide.
Burnham has said it’ll be the courts who will decide on war crimes in Gaza.
Yet by stating that Russia’s war is illegal, Miliband accidentally exposes the absurdity of that argument.
He hasn’t waited for the courts to decide there!
He speaks of the “terrible suffering” of Gaza, without naming the perpetrator - Israel.
No sign of any shift in government policy here.
David Lammy refused to condemn Israel's war crimes.
He claimed Israeli babies were raped on 7th October - a vile lie which helped legitimise genocide.
He portrayed a genocidal assault as 'self-defence' - and continued to arm it.
Good riddance.
You leave Downing Street with the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinians on your hands.
History will remember you as a war criminal for your role in the genocide in Gaza.
Our movement will never forget.
Good riddance.
⚽️As the world gears up for the football world cup final, Israel has just killed another Palestinian footballer: 17 year old Fadi al-Naasan was shot during an attack by Israeli settlers on his village in the West Bank. Israel spares no one in its genocidal war on Palestinians.
We are repeatedly told that the Prime Minister has "rebuilt Britain's reputation" on the world stage.
Imagine hearing that as a Palestinian who has watched their friends and family die in Gaza.
Britain has been complicit in genocide. That is not a reputation to be proud of.
Israel is planning to colonise Gaza - and drive its survivors out.
That was always its plan - and that's what the latest news underlines.
The so-called 'Board of Peace' has abandoned its reconstruction blueprint, and Israel has announced three illegal settlements.
We must not forget the people of Lebanon.
4,000 people killed since March. 1.2 million forced from their homes. Their humanity deserves more than deafening silence.
Israel must be held accountable for its war crimes, alongside all those who have been shamefully complicit.
We need actions, not words, on the genocide in Gaza.
End all military cooperation with Israel, impose sanctions, and establish a public inquiry into British complicity, now.
50% of British voters think that Israel is committing genocide.
Just 17% disagree.
55% think the UK should no longer consider Israel an ally.
15% think the UK should be an ally of Israel.
That's the latest YouGov polling.
Support for Israel is a fringe position in Britain.
❗️Keir Starmer authorised hundreds of spy flights for Israeli intelligence during its genocide.
That is his legacy.
Watch our film revealing those spy flights that the national media refused to cover, and helped Starmer get away with it.
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Two years ago the ICJ issued its finding that Israel must "rapidly" end its presence in the occupied territories and that all states should not render aid to that occupation.
The UK hasn't bothered to respond to it, despite numerous calls.
Britain also still allows trade with those illegal settlements.
Declassified recently revealed that an Israeli group, Shivat Zion, was helping Britons move to an illegal settlement, and was photographed at an event in London. This group has not been sanctioned.
Despite an expansion of illegal settlements, which the ICJ said must cease, the UK stills trades and and invests with Israel.
Sanctions have not even been put on Benjamin Netanyahu who is overseeing the expansion of illegal settlements and who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
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