Labour in disarray over Israel and and Gaza

 

Sir Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer-oid is getting himself all tied up in knots with his pro-Israeli stance on the conflict in Gaza and his obsession with eradicating delusionary antisemitism in the Labour Party. Bowing and scraping to Marie van der Zyl, the President of The Board of Deputies of British Jews and Netanyahu's ultra-right-wing Zionist thugs, he's prepared to condone genocide. Anyone who says anything remotely critical of Israel, is forced to apologise and gets dumped. We shouldn't be surprised at this. Starmer-oid has stated publicly, "I support Zionism without qualification."

Graham Jones, the former MP for Haslingden & Hyndburn, was suspended on Tuesday. He's alleged to have used the words "fucking Israel" and said that "British people who volunteer to fight for the Israeli army should be locked up." In 2023, Ruth Smeeth, now Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, a Jew and a former Director of BICOM, Britain's most active pro-Israel lobbying organisation, said this of Graham Jones:

 "Graham is a true ally to me during the height of the antisemitism crisis in the Labour Party. Week in, week out challenging anti-Jewish hate and demanding that more was done. I'm proud to call him a friend."

In Rochdale, Labour have disowned their official candidate Azhar Ali, because he claimed that Israel had ignored warnings of an imminent attack to justify an attack on Gaza. It seems that Israel did ignore warnings of an attack from the Egyptians, but it has yet to be proven that they did so, even if it seems likely they did so, in order to make it a green light for an attack on Gaza. Labour initially tried to say that Azhar Ali had embraced a false conspiracy theory that didn't really reflect his own views. He was then overheard accusing "people in the media from certain Jewish quarters" of inflating claims of antisemitism, and he was then toast. The former Labour Jewish MP, Louise Ellman, condemned Ali's "outrageous and deeply offensive conspiracy theories" but said she had "known Azhar for over 20 years and he consistently supported me when I was subjected to anti-Semitic attacks."

Starmer-oid is beginning to resemble Don Quixote who attacked imaginary enemies and evils by tilting at windmills. He doesn't brook any opposition or deviation from the official Starmer party line. Neither can he accept a different point of view or perspective when it comes down to Israel. There isn't much democracy in Starmer's Labour Party. Under his leadership, Labour is likely to lose the Muslim Labour vote and not just in Rochdale. Rochdale should have been a safe Labour seat, but it may well now change hands. Jewish campaigners now fear that George Galloway and his Workers Party of Britain, could win the Rochdale by-election. I bet Galloway is rubbing his hands at Labour's chaos.