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Palestinians search for survivors after an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Al Zawayda, central Gaza Strip, February 18, 2024
LABOUR backing for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza was starting to crumble today under pressure from the mass movement of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
The party tabled a Commons amendment ahead of tomorrow’s debate calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire which means an immediate stop to the fighting and a ceasefire that lasts and is observed by all.”
Labour’s equivocal shift is designed to head off a repetition of the rebellion of November, encompassing more than a quarter of Labour MPs, when MPs last voted on a Gaza ceasefire.
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
