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Labour’s grassroots members have shown more backbone on Gaza than their leaders ever will – and David Lammy has been exposed as a liar.
At the party’s conference in Liverpool, delegates backed a motion demanding that the UK suspend the arms trade with Israel and take action to prevent genocide in Gaza.
The vote was non-binding, but politically significant. It showed the feeling within Labour: members will not tolerate complicity in Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians.
Yet Lammy – now Deputy Prime Minister – wheeled out the same deceit that has characterised the government’s position for months.
He claimed it is up to international courts – the ICJ and the ICC – to determine whether genocide is being committed.
That is a lie.
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The Genocide Convention is clear: if a government even suspects another state of committing genocide, it is obliged to act to prevent it. Not to sit on its hands waiting for judges to deliver a final ruling while the killing continues.
And there is no shortage of suspicion.
The United Nations Commission of Inquiry has already concluded that Israel is committing genocide, citing four of the five genocidal acts recognised under international law:
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Killing members of a protected group,
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Causing serious bodily and mental harm,
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Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy the group, and
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Preventing births.
The only element missing is the forcible transfer of children.
The Commission also pointed to statements by senior Israeli leaders – President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former defence minister Yoav Gallant – which, coupled with famine, destruction and displacement, provide overwhelming evidence of genocidal intent.
Its chair, Navi Pillay, told the BBC that genocide is the only reasonable conclusion from the pattern of conduct.
Human rights groups such as B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights had already said the same, months ago.
Judges at The Hague have found a plausible case of genocide. The death toll is above 66,000 – overwhelmingly women and children.
This is not some fringe claim. It is the mainstream legal assessment of the world’s most respected international institutions.
Lammy knows this. But he hides behind a wilful misinterpretation of the law to excuse inaction.
Why?
Because Labour is following the United States, which continues to bankroll Israel’s war.
Because UK arms firms profit from sales of components for the very F-35 jets dropping bombs on Gaza.
Because Labour leaders are terrified of crossing Israel’s lobbyists.
So Lammy raises the bar far higher than the law requires, pretends not to see the evidence, and declares his hands tied.
It is complicity by omission.
By denying genocide, Labour evades its obligations under international law. By continuing to export arms parts, it profits from atrocity. By welcoming Isaac Herzog – a man accused of inciting genocide – to the UK only weeks ago, it shows open contempt for justice.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s children are buried under rubble, patients die without medicine, families starve.
These are not accidents of war.
They are deliberate outcomes of policies pursued with genocidal intent.
Labour delegates saw through it. They demanded the UK act.
But their vote was non-binding, and the leadership will ignore it.
Still, the significance is clear: members know the truth, and they have rejected complicity.
History will not record Lammy’s excuses.
It will record that when genocide was unfolding in Gaza, the UN recognised it – and the UK government lied to deny it.
Will the public forgive that betrayal?
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Labour conference demands Gaza action – but Lammy lies to protect genocide
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Labour’s grassroots members have shown more backbone on Gaza than their leaders ever will – and David Lammy has been exposed as a liar.
At the party’s conference in Liverpool, delegates backed a motion demanding that the UK suspend the arms trade with Israel and take action to prevent genocide in Gaza.
The vote was non-binding, but politically significant. It showed the feeling within Labour: members will not tolerate complicity in Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians.
Yet Lammy – now Deputy Prime Minister – wheeled out the same deceit that has characterised the government’s position for months.
He claimed it is up to international courts – the ICJ and the ICC – to determine whether genocide is being committed.
That is a lie.
The Genocide Convention is clear: if a government even suspects another state of committing genocide, it is obliged to act to prevent it. Not to sit on its hands waiting for judges to deliver a final ruling while the killing continues.
And there is no shortage of suspicion.
The United Nations Commission of Inquiry has already concluded that Israel is committing genocide, citing four of the five genocidal acts recognised under international law:
Killing members of a protected group,
Causing serious bodily and mental harm,
Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy the group, and
Preventing births.
The only element missing is the forcible transfer of children.
The Commission also pointed to statements by senior Israeli leaders – President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former defence minister Yoav Gallant – which, coupled with famine, destruction and displacement, provide overwhelming evidence of genocidal intent.
Its chair, Navi Pillay, told the BBC that genocide is the only reasonable conclusion from the pattern of conduct.
Human rights groups such as B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights had already said the same, months ago.
Judges at The Hague have found a plausible case of genocide. The death toll is above 66,000 – overwhelmingly women and children.
This is not some fringe claim. It is the mainstream legal assessment of the world’s most respected international institutions.
Lammy knows this. But he hides behind a wilful misinterpretation of the law to excuse inaction.
Why?
Because Labour is following the United States, which continues to bankroll Israel’s war.
Because UK arms firms profit from sales of components for the very F-35 jets dropping bombs on Gaza.
Because Labour leaders are terrified of crossing Israel’s lobbyists.
So Lammy raises the bar far higher than the law requires, pretends not to see the evidence, and declares his hands tied.
It is complicity by omission.
By denying genocide, Labour evades its obligations under international law. By continuing to export arms parts, it profits from atrocity. By welcoming Isaac Herzog – a man accused of inciting genocide – to the UK only weeks ago, it shows open contempt for justice.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s children are buried under rubble, patients die without medicine, families starve.
These are not accidents of war.
They are deliberate outcomes of policies pursued with genocidal intent.
Labour delegates saw through it. They demanded the UK act.
But their vote was non-binding, and the leadership will ignore it.
Still, the significance is clear: members know the truth, and they have rejected complicity.
History will not record Lammy’s excuses.
It will record that when genocide was unfolding in Gaza, the UN recognised it – and the UK government lied to deny it.
Will the public forgive that betrayal?
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