Starmer just made an antisemitic attempt to stop the Gaza protests

Keir Starmer has this morning tried to guilt opponents of Israel’s genocide into not attending marches around the country protesting against the genocide and against Israel’s criminal attacks on humanitarian aid vessels trying to bring food to Gaza, claiming that the protests will ‘stoke tension’:

Starmer: profoundly antisemitic

Starmer’s statement is profoundly antisemitic – it suggests that all Jewish people support Israel’s mass slaughter of almost 700,000 Palestinian civilians and its crimes of starvation, torture, maiming and forced displacement.

As author Assal Rad commented this morning, a protest against genocide only ‘stokes tension’ if you support the genocide:

Yet again, to support Israel Starmer paints British Jewish people as supportive of a murderous, genocidal, far-right regime – and ignores the many thousands of Jewish people who abhor Israel, its crimes, its arrogance, and its apartheid theft of the Palestinian homeland.

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