Chris Williamson schools timid BBC interviewer on the meaning of genocide
Talking straight: Chris Williamson.
Congratulations to former Labour MP Chris Williamson for putting a BBC interviewer straight about what’s going on in Gaza in no uncertain terms.
Speaking after fellow Workers’ Party politician George Galloway won the Rochdale by-election, Chris – who is a personal friend of This Site – expressed his horror that the Labour Party was “facilitating” and “supporting genocide” by Israel against the civilian population of Gaza.
The interviewer – possibly at the behest of some unseen producer’s voice in his earpiece – moved to silence this shocking revelation of the facts, and… it did not go well for him:
‘Maybe we could just avoid that language, if that’s okay, for now, because that is something that may well offend some people.'
No, that's not okay. Some people may well be offended by the suggestion that not causing offence is more important than protesting genocide. https://t.co/xoIVJA8DYm
— Media Lens (@medialens) March 1, 2024
Good for you Chris. You are absolutely right.
Nobody who supports genocide deserves any consideration from right-minded, decent people. And that includes the leaders and MPs of the Labour Party.
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that is pathetic from the interviewer to ask Chris to not mention genocide as it might offend