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The British Labour party deselected its candidate in the Rochdale by-election for saying that Netanyahu knew beforehand about the Hamas attack on 7 October.
This was anti-Semitic, said the Labour Party, without explaining why.
Predictably the seat which Labour could not contest, because it was too late to nominate someone else, was won by the pro-Palestinian ex-Labour firebrand George Galloway.
This is said to be a dark day for democracy because now there will be a pro-Palestinian member of the British Parliament.
Actually there are plenty of pro-Palestinian MPs, but most keep quiet.
What has Gaza to do with Britain? Nothing at all, but you would not think so to read the press.
What has Gaza to do with Britain? Nothing at all, but you would not think so to read the press.
Many Labour MPs privately (but not publicly) want a ceasefire.
Only 13 percent of the public share the two main parties’ view that Israel is justified in continuing to take military action. (The article I link to is worth reading, by the way.)
Dan Hodges in the Mail says that some Conservative MPs want a general election now, with their party doing very disastrously in the polls, to divide Labour over Gaza.
‘If we wait until after May, the picture might change,’ one told me. ‘Joe Biden is coming under his own pressure from his base in the States over Gaza. If he cracks and calls for a ceasefire, Starmer will just move in behind him. And the heat will go out of the issue.’So the Labour front bench are not going to support a ceasefire in Gaza until the USA does.
Some Labour MPs are becoming so desperate they want their leader to move without the cover of the US President.
Does this make any sense to you?
This is not how Labour used to behave.
People have a need for a cause - whether it's the Covid lockdowns or Ukraine or being for or against Israel.
And people take the press seriously, even though they know the papers get everything wrong in news items of which they have personal knowledge.
The fuss about Israel is really a projection of fears of Muslims in Europe (fears of Muslims in two senses - the Muslims in Europe feel marginalised and Muslim fanatics and criminals provoke fear among white people).
Yet the Arab Israeli dispute has nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with race.
It is caused by immigration, but it is the Jews, not the Arabs, who are the immigrants.
And the Middle East is of no importance to Europe or the USA, except for our (often selective) compassion for the dead, wounded, orphaned and widowed.
Attempts by outsiders to do good always make things worse, starting with the Balfour Declaration itself.
Here is a new article by Taki who quotes Mrs Rabin telling him that the religious nuts in Israel are the problem.
Rabin was the man who might have made peace.
Netanyahu inspired and provoked the nut who murdered him.
The Mail on Sunday also tells us 'George Galloway's deputy is under police investigation for saying Israel 'has forfeited any right to exist'.
ReplyDelete'Former Labour MP Chris Williamson made the comment on social media on October 17, ten days after Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 Israelis.
'He told his 149,000 followers on X: 'The people of the world now know that Israel has forfeited the right to exist and that resistance to the genocidal Zionist entity is the only option.'
The Guardian has some interesting information about Galloway the conservative (even though he said the day the USSR came to an end 'was the saddest day of my life').
ReplyDeleteThings would be more straightforward if we could take Galloway, and the Workers’ Party of Britain (WPB) that he leads, at face value. They claim to be a leftwing outfit that won Rochdale on a surge of pro-Palestinian sentiment in the wake of Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza. But the truth is murkier. During this campaign, Galloway’s team sent out more than one set of correspondence. One, addressed to Muslims in the constituency, urged voters to “use your vote to send Keir Starmer and the Labour party a message – stop supporting genocide, stop supporting Israeli aggression, and stand with Palestine”.
His other election address, targeting a different demographic, tells another story. It trumpets Galloway’s record of backing Brexit, opposing Scottish independence and supporting family values. A whole paragraph is dedicated to outlining his opposition to transgender rights and his conviction that “God creates everything in pairs”. “I believe in law and order,” the letter reads. “There will be no grooming gangs in Rochdale. Even if I have to arrest them myself.” It ends with a deliberate nod to Donald Trump, promising to “make Rochdale great again”. Alienated white voters were a key part of Galloway’s winning coalition.
The WPB is as much about social conservatism as it is about leftwing economic policies. It promises decent housing, better-funded public services and workers’ rights. But it also promises to combat the “ridiculous intersectional ideology of radical liberals”, and to put a stop to net zero.