Last week I learned that #Starmer supports #Zionism and that his wife is Jewish and he loves to go to Israel with his two kids. Today I learned that he refused to acknowledge that Israel is an apartheid state 🤨 What's next ? Claiming that apartheid never existed in South Africa ? 🤬 #ukpol #gaza #genocide #apartheid
Unsurprisingly, Keir Starmer rejects them. He made clear early on that the Labour party will not support BDS, suggesting the movement is “counterproductive” and “wrong”.
Even the mere thought of opposing the profiting from stolen resources on stolen land apparently irks Starmer: In 2020, when Labour MP Stephen Kinnock called on the UK to “ban all products that originate from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories”, the Labour leader was “infuriated” and Kinnock was subsequently given a “dressing down”.
That is true to form. In April 2022, Keir Starmer was asked whether he agrees with Amnesty International’s forensic report that concluded Israel is an apartheid state. He categorically rejected it.
To understand what will happen moving forwards is to take a cursory glance at what has come prior. “I support Zionism without qualification”, the former human rights lawyer proclaimed shortly after winning the Labour leadership contest. The statement amounted to an embodiment of the phrase, “begin as you mean to go on”.