UN’s Albanese: Starmer is a collaborator in genocide

Keir Starmer is a collaborator in genocide, according to a new report by UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) Francesca Albanese — and anyone who’s been paying attention, of course — and collaborated in far more than simply trying to locate Israeli ‘hostages’.

Albanese’s report notes that:

From its bases in Cyprus, the UK has enabled a crucial US supply line to Tel Aviv and flown over 600 surveillance missions over Gaza throughout the genocide, sharing intelligence with Israel.

She adds that flight numbers and durations logged for RAF flights from Cyprus show they often took place at the same time as major occupation attacks, suggesting close intelligence-sharing and cooperation in Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians — overwhelmingly civilians — and its wholesale destruction of Gaza

The report goes on to name Starmer as specifically responsible through his eagerness to excuse and endorse clear Israeli war crimes:

British opposition Leader Keir Starmer defended Israel’s right to cut off water and power to civilians. This environment fuelled a ferocious Israeli assault.

Labour not only refused to stop exporting parts for Israel’s F-35 strike jets that were bombing civilians daily, but increased arms sales to Israel to record levels during the genocide and did nothing more than slap a few Israeli extremists on the wrist for show, while continuing to equip and enable Israel’s crimes,

effectively condon[ing] the Israeli state system and structures as a whole,

and continuing to train Israeli military personnel in the UK throughout.

At a parliamentary level, Starmer’s government – like Rishi Sunak’s blue-Tory regime that preceded it – engaged in tactics of:

abstentions, delays, watered-down draft resolutions and a simplistic rhetoric of ‘balance’ [which] reinforced the diplomatic protection and political narrative Israel required to continue the genocide.

Albanese’s report concludes that Starmer’s tactics to support Israel, and those of other western states that participated, demonstrate a deliberate decision to collaborate in Israel’s war crimes and genocide, saying this his

actions, despite clear obligations and compounding concerns, indicate an intent to facilitate Israeli crimes.

Starmer and many who sit on his front benches belong in the Hague, not in Downing Street. Israel is a terror state and the UK its accomplice, both run by war criminals.

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