Ted Baldwin

Dissenter. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Is the Government still claiming the UK isn't involved in this war?

[Snowleopardess 💚 @snowleopardess]

This man is literally insane.
@Keir_Starmer is allowing him to illegally bomb another country, launching his murderous missions from our UK soil...and nobody is doing a thing to stop it.
https://t.co/bO5yucefj9

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

The UK Prime Minister - Former human rights lawyer Sir Keir Starmer - has nothing to say about Israel imposing 'one of the world's most extreme death penalty laws' on Palestinians only.

Please RT this until he does condemn this - or he resigns.

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

You’d think that over the last couple of years there might have been one or two Labour MPs resigning from the lobby organisation Labour Friends of Israel.

As Israel’s war crimes have piled up in Gaza, with the rulings of the International Court of Justice, as the atrocities, ethnic cleansing and land grabs have spread to Lebanon, the illegal invasion of Iran, as Netanyahu’s regime shows its utter contempt for international law and opinion across the world, and as Israel voted recently to enact the death penalty specifically against Palestinian prisoners, you would have thought that there’d have been at least one MP, just one, who said to themselves, “I can’t do this anymore. I can’t go on supporting this, it’s gone beyond the pale.”

But not one member/supporter has resigned. They have continued to remain silent and carry on at Westminster as if the atrocities in Gaza, the occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Iran are not happening at all. It’s as if they’ve barricaded themselves into a protective cocoon at Westminster that’s immune to the outside world.

The only MP known to have resigned from Labour Friends of Israel is Dr. Rupa Huq (MP for Ealing Central and Acton). She resigned in 2019 voicing her concern with the organisation’s positions on several issues, particularly its reluctance to oppose illegal settler occupation and constructions in the Palestinian lands.

Shortly after she resigned from Labour Friends of Israel, Margaret Hodge’s @JewishLabour Movement accused Rupa Huq of antisemitism - specifically ‘anti-Semitic bullying and harassment’. The charges were dismissed by a panel citing lack of evidence and described by a spokesperson for Rupa Huq as ‘entirely false and malicious.’

Margaret Hodge is also the leading light and figurehead in the Labour Friends of Israel organisation.

Why do so many Labour MPs remain staunch members and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel?

Independent research has argued that MPs with “ties to Labour Friends of Israel and pro-Israel donors ‘have received significant patronage and promotions.’”

Many in the highest posts of the Labour government are Labour Friends of Israel members including Yvette Cooper, Wes Streeting, Bridget Phillipson, Jon Reynolds, Alex Davies-Jones, Christian Wakeford, Preet Gill, Dan Jarvis, Emily Thornberry, Peter Kyle, Sharon Hodgson, Pat McFadden, Hilary Benn, Alex Norris, Alison McGovern, Jess Phillips, Liz Kendall, Darren Jones, Kim Leadbeater, David Lammy, Maria Eagle, Josh Simons, Chris Bryant, Steve Reed, Rachel Reeves, Ellie Reeves, Lucy Powell, Angela Eagle, Mike Tapp, Anna Turley, Michael Shanks, Joani Reid and Keir Starmer himself.

Labour Friends of Israel members and supporters in the House of Lords include Lord Ian Austin, Baroness Ruth Smeeth, Lord John Mann, Baroness Luciana Berger, Lord Steve McCabe, Baron Tom Watson, Baroness Margaret Hodge, Lord Peter Mandelson and Lord John Woodcock.

In September 2025, Starmer appointed the chair of Labour Friends of Israel, Jon Pearce, as his Parliamentary Private Secretary.

The influence that Labour Friends of Israel exerts over The Labour Party and the UK government is undeniable. Whether that influence is in the best interests of democracy and public representation in Parliament is surely open to question.

@elliereeves @mgshanks @JeffSmithetc @karinsmyth @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting @gstringermp @gareththomasMP @EmilyThornberry @KarlTurnerMP @CatherineWest1 @_MWhitfield @UKLabour @_LFI @Channel4News #TheLobby #LabourDoorstep @AJEnglish @BBCNews @Ofcom

[Ted Baldwin @tedjbaldwin]

@Edwards72Sue Allowing US B52 Bombers to use our bases, specifically RAF Fairford, is not in the interests of British people. It shows that the UK supports an illegal war being prosecuted by psychopaths. More importantly, it enables the US to kill thousands of innocent civilians in Iran.

[Ted Baldwin @tedjbaldwin]

Desperation. Like thousands of other ex-Labour members, I will be voting Green. We are not coming back.

[George Foulkes @GeorgeFoulkes]

Polanski & Farage are like terrible twins - both superficially articulate but when you examine their policies they are both bonkers - in by-elections they each gather protest votes but on 7th.May when we decide who runs a council or a country voters need to keep backing Labour.

[Steve Howell @FromSteveHowell]

It's not in Britain's interest to allow the US to use our bases to start a war, bomb Iran into the Stone Age, drive up oil prices, create a refugee crisis on our doorstep and provoke further hatred of the West.

And don't insult us by calling our anger "noise".

[Ted Baldwin @tedjbaldwin]

@PeterStefanovi2 The Iranians are retaliating. They are suffering an existential threat from the illegal war that the US and Israel have started. Yvette Cooper should now be calling on these countries to stop the war. Instead, she condemns Iran. Shameful.

[Ted Baldwin @tedjbaldwin]

@DavidLammy What a fraud. I find this message highly offensive, coming as it does from a man who is complicit in genocide. Why don't you do us all a favour and shut up @DavidLammy.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The US now has 23 heavy bomber aircraft at ‘RAF’ Fairford in Gloucestershire, according to military-watching social media sites this weekend.

Keir Starmer’s Britain is heavily involved in Trump’s illegal war of aggression on Iran. https://t.co/LkkBqOMtxo

[Ted Baldwin @tedjbaldwin]

Quite.

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

It is reported that the downed fighter aircraft was from USAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. Is there any media curiosity as to what it was doing before it was shot down? Are Ministers content to allow UK bases to be used to help bomb Iran 'back to the Stone Age'? https://t.co/uoIJmjhpJH

[Ted Baldwin @tedjbaldwin]

@Keir_Starmer And you, @Keir_Starmer, should reflect upon the Palestinians who are suffering under an apartheid regime and your complicity in the genocide that is taking place in Gaza and the civilians who are dying as a result of bombs dropped by B52 Bombers based at RAF Fairford.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Sir Keir Starmer has NOT called for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya - who has been held hostage in an Israeli torture camp since December 2024.

Please RT until he does or until Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is free.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Keir Starmer should make it clear Trump’s aim of bombing Iran back to stone age, including bombing energy plants, civilian infrastructure & hospitals is a war crime Any use of UK air bases for these attacks means that the UK is implicated in these crimes. https://t.co/MePIbnsliG

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

All the MPs who have been loyal 'Labour Friends of Israel' -have NOT left this organisation in protest - as a result of Israel imposing 'one of the world's most extreme death penalty laws' on Palestinians only.

Please RT this until they do.

[Ted Baldwin @tedjbaldwin]

@LukeEdwardsTele Actually, no he hasn't. He should have refused use of our bases. B52 Bombers are taking off from RAF Fairford every day to bomb Iran. This makes us participants in an illegal war in which thousands of innocent civilians are dying. A war which Starmer has failed to condemn.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Sir Keir Starmer - has NOT strongly condemned Israel's plans to invade & occupy land in southern Lebanon.

Please RT this until the Prime Minister of the UK does this.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

The UK govt has repeatedly refused to say whether the US attack on Iran was illegal - they say thats a question for the Americans.

But it has no problem saying Russias war in Ukraine is illegal. Surely thats a question for the Russians?

[Ted Baldwin @tedjbaldwin]

Precisely.

[Snowleopardess 💚 @snowleopardess]

Why is the UK still an "ally" of the murderous, genocidal nation that is Israel?
Why would any decent person want to ally themselves with this?