It took last week’s Manchester attack to awaken the political officer class to the hate they have fostered. Home Secretary Mahmood now claims that “cumulative impact” assessments could be used to restrict the protests. Too little, too late.
Trump has pressured Netanyahu to at least publicly acquiesce to negotiations with Hamas and the eventual creation of a new governing authority to rebuild Gaza. Negotiations will take time and nobody is better at sabotaging negotiations than Netanyahu.
These protests, week in and week out, hear, amongst other chants, calls to “globalise the intifada” These are explicitly antisemitic calls. And what happened in Manchester is quite literally a globalisation of the intifada.
What happened in Manchester yesterday, is not just a deep tragedy for this country, but a global embarrassment.
Starmer said in front of Trump, that there is ‘no place for Hamas’ in this newly recognised Palestinian state they’ll still take credit for – so what possible incentive is there for Hamas to cease firing, hand over hostages, or even blink because of it?
Starmer needs to make it crystal clear that there can be no state recognition for Palestine without the hostages first being returned to Israel.
BBC coverage of Israel is not just about occasional catastrophic blunders, but a consistent, insidious stream of distortion. We should not be mandated, via TV licence laws, to incentivise the BBC to continue this doomed pattern.
The abominable sufferings of the people of Gaza prompt calls instead for American intervention.
The consequences of language used in Parliament about Gaza are not theoretical. They are felt in synagogues across Britain, in Jewish schools, in the daily lives of British Jews, many of whom now walk to synagogue under police protection.
Denying the regime space to regroup and retrench will also empower the Iranian people to shape the future of their country. Labour must clarify its position –– it is either supportive of the campaign to eliminate Iran’s nuclear capabilities, or against.
The Conservative leader says that Israel is our ally. “We should not have terrorists cheering our Prime Minister,” she adds.
The war in Gaza and the loss of life on both sides is a tragedy. But there is no equivalence with the Holocaust.
The boys and girls in blue need to get a grip, exorcise the woke mind virus, and afford Jews – and white Brits, for that matter – the full protection of the law enforced without fear or favour.
People can try to brush out what happened a year ago but deep in Israeli society it won’t wash. It really was a national trauma, and it really was as bad as Hamas terrorists wanted it to look.
Over-riding international law isn’t perfect, but a muscular approach to self-interest feels like a breath of fresh air. Sorry if that offends – and Trump has done more to defend the rights of Venezuelans than Maduro’s Marxists did.