During Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday, Independent MP Shockat Adam, said: “This week, the Israeli government approved a plan to officially conquer Gaza.” He added that Minister Smotrich declared yesterday that Gaza would be destroyed and Palestinians will have to leave for third countries. Adam said: “This comes at the end of the extermination of over 50,000 Palestinian men, women and children and at the same time simultaneous expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank.”
He then asked if the Prime Minister would acknowledge ethnic cleansing Israel is carrying out and end UK military cooperation with Israel, including providing F-35 fighter jet parts.
“Or will he make Britain complicit in war crimes and be the Prime Minister to answer at The Hague?,” he said.
In response, Sir Keir Starmer said: “Mr Speaker, most of what he says is simply not right”, before giving a brief statement on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.
On the PoliticsJOE podcast, presenters fact-checked Adam’s claims and found they were accurate. They also challenged Starmer’s dismissal as disingenuous.
PoliticsJOE presenter Ed Campbell said: “What parts there are incorrect? Like it’s so disingenuous to just lie about this.”
A groundbreaking new report reveals for the first time the extraordinary scale of UK arms exports to Israel using new data from the Israel Tax Authority, and concludes that “it appears that Foreign Secretary David Lammy has misled Parliament and the public about arms shipments to Israel”.
Former Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP and Zarah Sultana MP are calling on Keir Starmer to launch an investigation into evidence in the report that Ministers have misled Parliament and the public, saying that, if the Ministerial Code has been breached by David Lammy or any other Minister, this is a “resigning matter”.
The joint report by the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Progressive International and Workers for a Free Palestine reveals a total of over 160,000 military goods exported from the UK to Israel since the war on Gaza began in October 2023. This new evidence of thousands of shipments of military goods, munitions of war, arms, and aircraft parts which have played a pivotal role in Israel’s destruction of Gaza. comes as Israel’s Cabinet approves Netanyahu’s plans to annex Gaza, which threatens to ethnically cleanse the land, with Minister Smotrich vowing “Gaza will be entirely destroyed”.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/07/uk-sent-israel-thousands-of-military-items-despite-export-ban-study-finds
Human Rights Watch warns: Countries supplying arms could be complicit in war crimes.Yet British weapons are still flowing to Israel, violating their own export “ban” and British-maintained jets keep bombing. And Britain is keeping them airborne:
Keir Starmer time and time again has refused to see- the connection between Western politicians giving Israel carte blanche after 7 October and the destruction, death and starvation resulting from nearly six months of a genocidal campaign.
A truly shameful man who is complicit in genocide. Not only did Starmer say in an infamous interview on LBC radio, that Israel ‘has the right’ to withhold power and water from Gaza, Starmer’s appalling statements, amounted to endorsing the collective punishment of 2.2 million civilians, a war crime under Article 33 of the Geneva Convention. No government, no army, and no country can ever be above international law..
Starmer has continued to dismiss any criticism of the indiscriminate and disproportionate killing of Palestinians by repeatedly asserting that ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’.and has not only refused to condemn any Israeli actions in Gaza, but has actively supported them by facilitating arms sales and providing logistical backing for the killing of Palestinians thus violated international and criminal law, and became a willing participant in genocide.
Starmer and Labour under his direction gave Netanyahu cover for genocide and gave Israel the greenlight to commit one of the greatest crimes of our age. He is a vile committed zionist who has supported Israel massacring hundreds of thousands of people who provided his support diplomatically, logistically and militarily. Starmer is a proven liar and a fraud. As are the corrupt sycophants that surround him.
Human rights experts have said Israel’s actions amount to collective punishment, a war crime under international law. It matters little since Israeli officials have not attempted to hide their intentions.
After committing genocide with impunity in Gaza, Israel now says it will occupy and besiege the entire Strip. as it pushes for Trump's plan to force 2million Palestinians to leave.
By refusing to impose sanctions, governments worldwide , including our own have enabled this. It was never about self defence. It was always ethnic cleansing. It was always genocide. It was always a land grab.
The situation in Gaza is beyond tragic. For 66 days the Netanyahu government has blocked all food and aid from going into Gaza.Thousands upon thousands of children are dead. Entire bloodlines erased. with UK made weapons sold with Keir Starmer and David Lammy's approval.
At least 52,760 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's genocidal war since October 2023, the the Ministry of Health in Gaza, said today.A ministry statement said that 106 people were killed in Israeli attacks in the enclave in the last 24 hours, while 367 others were injured, taking the number of injuries to 119,264 in the Israeli onslaught. . “Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
The Israeli army resumed its deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip on March 18 and has since killed over 2,650 people and injured over 7,200 others despite a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January. 66 thousand children suffering severe malnutrition , and the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world and 2 million displaced, Shame on humanity for allowing this to happen. The world must not look away.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.full approval.Netanyahu is not a defender. He’s a butcher. A fascist running from jail who’s building his legacy on mass graves.
The genocide is livestreamed but governments with some degree of influence keep tip toeing around the reality, failing to name the genocide and failing to use their power to prevent and respond effectively.
Starmers justifying Israel's collective punishment of two million Palestinians, and Labour's refusals to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, will haunt the party for a long time to come.
Starmer will go down in history as the British PM a former Human Rights Barristeri ironically who has supported and enabled Israel's Palestine holocaust. We should never ever forgive, him.A shameful stain that will reverberate in the decades to come. Just as they invaded Iraq illegally, Keir Starmer will be known as a genocide supporter that let little children starve.Shame on this disgusting Labour Government too.I never ever imagined a scenario where a Labour government could be aiding and abetting a genocide It really is a failure on all sides.
Both Starmer and David Lammy are war criminals with blood on their hands like Tony Blair before them, helping to kill aid workers, medics, and defenceless civilians, all for a rogue terrorist state thousands of miles away where his wife’s parents live They both deserve to be standing in the dock in the Hague, along with Trump and Netanyahu who are undeniably all complicit in the ongoing genocide being conducted in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem by Israel.
Only a full arms embargo will ensure that British made arms are not used to enact Netanyahu’s new plans to annex and “destroy” the Gaza Strip and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland. We must demand that our government Stop Arming Israel and keep pressuring Israel to end the Genocide of Palestinians and to never stop protesting, never stop boycotting and never stop campaigning until Palestine is free.
Please take two minutes to email the Foreign Secretary to demand Britain ends all military cooperation and arms trade with Israel, as well as any other trade that aids the illegal occupation of Palestine.
"nearly six months of a genocidal campaign" ?? Add another 12 !!
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