The illegal attacks on Iran by the United States are reckless beyond belief — and threaten the safety of humankind around the world.
Diplomacy was possible. Instead, a catastrophic war has been ignited by the aggression of two nuclear states, Israel and the United States.
Meanwhile, the genocide in Gaza continues unabated with the shameful military support of our own government.
The last Labour government made the mistake of following the US into a devastating war. Human beings abroad paid the price.
This Labour government needs to learn the lessons of the past, otherwise it will be remembered for the more dangerous world it has helped to create.
I echo the call made by the UN Secretary-General: “There is no military solution. The only path forward is diplomacy. The only hope is peace.”
Nearly two million Palestinians, now forced into just 18% of the Gaza Strip, are enduring overcrowding, disease outbreaks and severe distress
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Gary Lineker, "What's going on there (Gaza), the mass murder of thousands of children is something we should have an opinion on"
Amol Rajan, "The BBC needs to be impartial about it"
Gary Linekar, "Why? It needs to be factual"
Amol Rajan, "It needs to be impartial about conflict doesn't it?"
Gary Linekar, "It wasn't impartial about Ukraine and Russia"
Amol Rajan, "The Israeli position is that what's happening in Gaza is a response to the slaughter and capture of innocent Israelis on October 7th"
Gary Linekar, "Which was truly awful"
Amol Rajan, "The context needs to be there"
Gary Linekar, "That's not the full context, it started way before October 7th, doesn't it"
We were never meant to see dead children. It's supposed to be a freak accident that happens once in a community's life and scars it, and gets remembered forever as a shared tragedy. Israel made this an integral part of our daily life
For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps.
This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate.
We are witnessing ethnic cleansing — and our government’s ongoing failure to defend international law is utterly, utterly shameful.
Palestinians are human beings who deserve self-determination.
That is why we will continue to demand economic sanctions, a full arms embargo, and the only path to peace: an end to the occupation of Palestine.
Why are politicians talking about the destruction of Gaza as if it’s some random disaster?
They know the truth: they spent 15 months rejecting our calls to stop arming Israel.
Gaza must be rebuilt for Palestinians — and those responsible for its demolition must face justice.
This is like a case study in extreme apartheid. They built a cage around a Palestinian family's home to separate it from the Jewish settlement surrounding it. The only gate to the cage is controlled by the Israeli army.
Imaging being stupid enough to believe Labour's "antisemitism crisis" was anything other than a smear campaign to protect Israel from a PM who would have held Israel to account for its actions.
The same people who smeared Corbyn are now smearing the ICC.