Signs Of Ethical Life In British Labour Party

Anthony McIntyre ☠ It was heartening to see SS twin Keir Starmer of the Sunak-Starmer war lobby being openly defied by a number of his own MPs, including ten from the front bench, who refused to endorse his enthusiasm for Israel's war of extermination in Gaza.

56 rebellious MPs, preferring peace to war, defied their party leader who has objected to a cessation of the war on hospitals, the war on children, the war on women, the war on civilians. For the Labour political class in what was a rare display of conscience before career, 'ten of the party's frontbenchers have left their jobs over the vote, including eight shadow minsters.' Contrast that to the antics in Belfast City Hall where career trumped conscience.

Starmer actually threatened to sack MPs from his shadow cabinet if they called for a ceasefire. They still faced the war monger down.

War mongering is nothing new for the British Labour Party. Twenty years ago while in government it waged a war of aggression on false pretences against Iraq. The Prime Minister of the day Tony Blair is a war criminal. Starmer might not yet be a war criminal but he is certainly a war monger.

Starmer wants the Kapo state's war against the civilian population of Gaza to continue, while simultaneously having the brass neck to oppose the Russian war on Ukraine.

The former leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn, who has never supported genocide, was accused by the right wing Starmer cabal of not doing enough to stem antisemitism within the party. When the Equality and Human Rights Commission flagged up failings under the Corbyn leadership Starmer called it "a day of shame for the Labour Party." Yet he seems remarkably free of shame in his support for the Kapo state policy of emigration or annihilation. As SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said, it was:

shameful that a majority of Tory and Labour MPs blocked calls for a ceasefire - and have condoned the continued bombardment of Gaza.

It doesn't really get any simpler.

The most anti-Semitic statement that can be made is one in which genocide is supported, or one in which the crime of genocide when it occurs is denied in real time. While not the Nazis' greatest crime of World War 2 - the War of Extermination in the East has that dubious distinction - given the genocide that was inflicted on the Jews by the Nazis during that war, the real antisemitic school is that which howls never again but never means it.

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