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Israel/Palestine

Easterncedar

(4,904 posts)

4. The Labour Government is rank as hell

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Tue Sep 9, 2025, 03:00 PM

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I don’t know who owns Keir Starmer, but the violent and shocking arrests of peace protesters testifies to a lack of decency I would never have expected. Sucking up to our felon just seems weak, and could be called playing politics, but what is going on with all the fricking authoritarianism?

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'Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza,' UK government concludes [View all] Mosby Tuesday OP

So, that means that Palestinians are voluntarily starving themselves to death and/or no_hypocrisy Tuesday #1

The Hamas death cult sees every Palestinian death comradebillyboy Tuesday #3

Genocide requires the specific intent to destroy an ethnic group as such. lapucelle Tuesday #2

So what do you call what is happening in Gaza? Smilo Tuesday #5

It's called a war, and it's a war Hamas started. lapucelle Tuesday #6

At the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva (ICRC) Smilo Tuesday #10

Thank you for the concession that the war in Gaza is neither "ethnic cleansing", nor "extermination", lapucelle Tuesday #11

The Labour Government is rank as hell Easterncedar Tuesday #4

They weren't "peace protestors". They were rallying in support of the proscribed terrorist group Palestinian Action. lapucelle Tuesday #7

GOV.UK: Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations lapucelle Tuesday #8

Take a guess who owns Starmer. AloeVera Tuesday #9

Who exactly do you think "owns" Keir Starmer and "toppled" unrepentant anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn? lapucelle Tuesday #12