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Muslim support for Labour plunges over stance on Gaza war: Poll | Middle East Eye

Flag-shagger: he’s so busy being ‘patriotic’ (whatever that means to him) that Israel-loving Labour leader Keir Starmer seems not to have realised he is haemorrhaging support.

Oh dear. What a shame:

A new poll suggests that Labour is losing significant support among British Muslims as Keir Starmer prepares for an expected general election later this year amid criticism over the party’s handling of the Gaza war.

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Data collected by Survation, commissioned by the Labour Muslim Network (LMN), showed that 60 percent of British Muslims who expressed a preference for a party said they would vote Labour. The poll was based on telephone interviews with a sample group of 682 people.

Survation said this represented a 26 percent drop in support since the last election in 2019 when 86 percent of Muslims previously polled by the company said they had voted Labour.

A spokesperson for LMN said the poll showed that the Labour Party risks losing a “generation” of potential new voters if its leadership does not change its position over the situation in Gaza.

This Writer wonders what Keir Starmer is planning to do to save all the seats he’ll otherwise lose with the Muslim vote.

My prediction: nothing.

Source: Muslim support for Labour plunges over stance on Gaza war: Poll | Middle East Eye


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Israel’s arch-liar is at it again

Eylon Levy: he’ll say whatever he thinks will get you to sympathise with his genocidal Israeli government and hate the almost defenceless Gazan people Israel is slaughtering.

Is he pathological? Is Eylon Levy unable to control his behaviour – stop himself from lying?

Of course, the answer is no. He’s perfectly capable of quoting genuine facts but his job is to mislead the rest of us. Or at least, it certainly seems that way.

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Consider his latest wheeze: claiming that serving members of the Israeli armed forces who were taken prisoner on October 7 are helpless hostages of Hamas, in danger of rape or other sexual crimes likely to be perpetrated by their captors:

Billel Boudouma’s response is accurate; I checked it with the “Bing Copilot” on my web browser. Before anybody whines about it, it’s the best that Levy deserves.

Here’s the response:

Yes, the Israeli soldiers who were taken prisoner by Hamas on October 7, 2023, are considered prisoners of war 1The Third Geneva Convention defines a prisoner of war as “any person belonging to one of the following categories, who has fallen into the power of the enemy: Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces” 1Since the Israeli soldiers were members of the Israeli Defense Forces, they fall under this definition and are therefore considered prisoners of war 1.

Feel free to check the sources yourself.

In the meantime, remember that Israeli spokespeople like Levy are habitual and constant liars – and, sadly, many of the UK’s mainstream media are colluding with them, whether consciously or not. Look at the report on the BBC’s recent behaviour.


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With all eyes on Gaza, what’s happening in Ukraine?

Airstrike: the smoking ruin in the middle of the image used to be the Russian landing ship Novocherkassk.

Has everybody forgotten the conflict between Russia and Ukraine?

The tide has turned badly against Ukraine in recent weeks, despite similar events to those occurring on the Mediterranean coast:

But Ukraine has just recorded a major strike back, destroying Russia’s Novocherkassk landing ship, meaning one-fifth of Russia’s Black Sea fleet has been sunk since the start of the war.

Russia’s ability to launch missile attacks from the sea is now seriously diminished, as is any possibility of an amphibious attack from the sea.

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Russian supply routes to the Crimean peninsula are disrupted, weakening Moscow’s grip there.

And with supply lines disrupted, Russia’s control over the front lines against Ukraine may also be disrupted.

But this is a long game, and Ukraine’s time is running out – because the western powers that have been funding its defence are getting impatient for a return on their investment, and may abandon their debtor.

With most eyes now fixed on Gaza, Ukraine may discover what we have already seen in Palestine – that western sympathy is provided only on the condition that it will provide a cash return, and has nothing to do with alleviating human suffering.


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Israeli attack on maternity unit is latest hospital atrocity

The Al Ahli Hospital was the first to be struck by a missile during the conflict; at first, Israel claimed it was a Hamas missile that flew off-course, but very few people believe that now.

The video evidence speaks for itself. Israel has shelled the maternity ward of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza.

There can be no military advantage in trying to murder mothers and their infant children; this is a war crime:

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This is the latest in a series of attacks on Gazan hospitals. An ‘X’ user using the handle ‘Walnut2016’ posted: “Anybody remember the Baptist Hospital, 1st to be bombed? That was how Israel broke the world’s ice with targeting hospitals. Where’s Anderson Cooper & CNNs horse manure of misfired Khamas rocket? What about the 20 other hospitals Israel aren’t denying they bombed?”

Israel also attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza:

And while Israel starves Gazans of food and water, it is also starving them of resources; a hospital ship is said to be waiting offshore – but has been refused permission to land and offer help:

Again we see the true face of genocidal Israel: hospitals are not valid wartime targets and Israel’s excuse – that they are fronts for Hamas bases – has been shown to be unfounded (so far).

In any case, there is no reason to deny access to a ship offering vital medical help.

The only likely possibility is that Israel does not want Palestinian civilians to receive any relief from the horrifying injuries being inflicted on them every day.


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Journalist smuggled into Gaza witnesses horror. This is why they keep the press out

Apocalypse now: Gaza under attack. Western journalists are smuggling themselves into this hell, to see what the Israeli military is trying to hide from them.

Yashar Ali’s full ‘X’ post is as follows:

CNN’s @clarissaward is the first Western journalist to enter Gaza since October 7.

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She did not enter Gaza with the IDF.

Like most militaries, the IDF requires journalists’ footage to be vetted by them before airing.

Clarissa entered Gaza with an Emirati medical team.

There was an Israeli military strike near the field hospital minutes after Clarissa entered.

Clarissa described what she witnessed as “harrowing,” “chilling,” and “sobering.”

“You get an absolute sense of the horrors that have been taking place in Gaza. This hospital was filled with the youngest victims of this war. Children who have been disfigured, who are in full body casts, and who are covered in burns.”

The strike that occurred after she entered resulted in an older man and a 13-year-old boy coming into the field hospital. The boy had half his leg missing, and the older man’s foot was hanging off.

Ms Ward appears to have been the first of several journalists who have managed to smuggle themselves into Gaza.

This Site will try to publish as many of their accounts as possible – separately, because I think that will be more effective than de-sensitising you with one account after another in the same article.


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These incidents show that Israel isn’t attacking Hamas; it is committing genocide

This is what we have to understand about the conflict – if you can still call it that – between Israel and Gaza (not Hamas): it is not about destroying a group of terrorists; it is about destroying the people and identity of Gaza – and Palestine – altogether.

Israeli spokespeople are keen to claim that Hamas’s raid on their country on October 7 was the worst terror attack in history – but the evidence we see every day suggests that they are wrong.

The worst terror attack in history, it seems, is the one that has been ongoing, every day since October 7, against the men, women and children of Gaza – the genocide that the country built on the words “Never again” has inflicted on its immediate neighbour.

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The following social media posts speak for themselves.

And the lies are still coming thick and fast from Israel, especially about al-Shifa hospital:

So there you have it.

Israel is primarily targeting five-year-old children rather than Hamas terrorists, and is also eliminating people in positions of responsibility and societal value in Gaza. The aim is apparently to make it impossible to continue living there.


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The Israel/Hamas propaganda war: who do you believe?

The phrase for the people we’re seeing all over the mainstream and social media at the moment is “bad faith actor” – although some of them might actually believe what they’re saying.

These are people who put out falsehoods and disinformation, constantly, in order to gaslight you into disbelieving the evidence of your own senses.

So, for example, here’s Piers Morgan:

Here’s Jones’s response:

Morgan is wrong – but for a different reason – as This Writer has pointed out:

Yes: it doesn’t matter what Piers Morgan (or anybody else) says. We must judge Israel and Hamas on what we see them doing.

Now here’s Jacob Rees-Mogg on the BBC’s Question Time:

Of course, there’s no evidence that Israel did bring incubators to al-Shifa hospital; in fact, it seems more likely that they brought the guns that they then claimed were Hamas weapons, under the label “medical equipment”.

And who did the killing at that rave (it wasn’t a peace rally)? Evidence seems to be showing that it was the IDF’s “friendly fire” that did it.

Next up: Mark Regev, an advisor to Israely prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, talking about the deaths of Palestinian children, caused by Israel:

Regev’s claim that Israel will destroy Hamas is false. Hamas is an international organisation and cannot be destroyed just by smashing it in Gaza. Also, the murder of Gazan civilians means their relatives are likely to be radicalised.

Mehdi Hasan absolutely nails Regev on the disinformation coming from Israel.

But let’s have that comment about whether Israeli forces have killed children:

The claim is that Gazan children haven’t been killed by Israeli dropping the equivalent of two Hiroshima atomic bombs on their homes, but (presumably) that Hamas killed them.

Do you believe that?

And then there’s the revision of the Israeli death toll – down by 200:

It is unrealistic to expect Hamas to have burned its own members to cinders.

Perhaps this is more convincing:

“This also adds legitimacy to claims that many Israelis found burned beyond recognition were friendly fire victims.” Like all those burned bodies that were supposed to be Israeli babies?

First we were told they were beheaded by Hamas, then they were burned by Hamas. Now it seems they were burned by the IDF.

“Yesterday an Israeli official admitted on TV that Israel had misidentified HUNDREDS of dead Hamas fighters as Israeli because there were so many corpses that were too badly burned to identify. Unless you believe Hamas was also burning hundreds of its own fighters alive, it’s safe to assume that the burned corpses seen in all the images Israel has been bandying about since October 7 were in fact victims of Hellfire missiles fired by IDF forces. The IDF, not Hamas, burned people alive — both Israeli and Palestinian.”

Here’s another claim:

I’m not sure what’s depraved about a woman giving birth in captivity. It happens in prisons, I hear. And we know from former hostages that they have access to medical treatment. The depravity would have been if this lady had been taken to a Gaza hospital and forced to give birth while the IDF was attacking it, or if the baby had needed an incubator but couldn’t use one because the IDF had cut power to it.

“Borrell, in his press conference held today Friday in the city of Ramallah, surpassed the limits of decency and diplomacy, when he tried to distort the right of the Palestinian people to resist the occupation, which is a right guaranteed by international law.”

This is accurate – it is a right guaranteed by international law.

“We see that the US and the EU are violating international law by giving the occupation the green light to commit more crimes and massacres against our people.”

Arguably true. These organisations (the US government and the EU) are supporting Israel, despite actions that are arguably war crimes.

“We reaffirm the right of our people to continue their struggle and resist the occupation, as we find it a very legitimate and legal right. The Palestinian people are the only ones who have the right to sovereignty over their land, and no one has that right to dictate over them.”

Israel has invaded, occupied and stolen Palestinian land. It remains Palestinian land, even though it has been stolen, so this is arguably accurate.

“Our people will remain committed to their legitimate rights, defending them by all means until the occupation is defeated and eliminated, and their state is established, with Jerusalem as its capital.”

Okay… if it’s a commitment to legitimate rights, then this is a call for a two-state solution. But you can bet someone is saying it’s a demand for Israel to be dissolved.

Now try this, for distortion – from Sussex Friends of Israel:

How is this doctor’s honestly-held belief, based on her experience, disinformation?

Back to al-Shifa hospital now where, according to the BBC, Israel has fabricated its claim that Hamas had a command centre there:

Now here’s Norman Finkelstein, with a new revelation:

So: 11,000 people were killed “because of a hole in the ground”.

And it gets worse:

Let’s go over to the United Nations:

A UN rapporteur has said Israel cannot claim it is acting out of self-defence under international law:

It means Israel does not have any excuse for the war crimes it is committing.

Opponents of this point of view may claim that Francesca Albanese is biased towards Palestine – but she has that covered too:

Empirically, the weight of opinion is turning against Israel, with expert evidence and opinion showing that Israel is wrong to do what it is doing and lying about what it has done.

This is an ongoing situation, though. Let’s see what happens next.

French President calls for ceasefire between Israel and Gaza

Emmanuel Macron: the French Head of State wants a ceasefire in Gaza.

Emmanuel Macron has taken to television to call for a ceasefire in Gaza – led by Israel.

But he stopped short of accusing Israel of war crimes:

He said he was a Head of State – not a judge.

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To This Writer, his words imply that he believes somebody in the Israeli government will be brought to book for the deaths of civilians in Gaza, sometime in the future.

Agreed?


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Israel’s latest Gazan targets are civilian. Have any been military?

Between bombardments: this is northern Gaza. If you would not want to live in a place like this, how can you stand by and watch while others are forced to?

Israel’s genocide of the Gaza Strip continues, with hardly even a comment from the international press or political establishment.

Here are the latest atrocities:

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Rishi Sunak calls for police clampdown on Armistice Day anti-war ‘Million Man March’

So much for free speech in the UK, then.

Rishi Sunak has called for the Home Secretary and police to spit on everything the servicepeople commemorated on Remembrance Day died to defend.

He has been informed that, after 500,000 people marched in support of the innocent people of Gaza who are being murdered on a daily basis by Israeli war crimes last Saturday (October28), another march is being arranged, to take place on November 11, which it is hoped a million people will attend.

Here’s the poster for it:

And here’s Sunak’s response:

For those who can’t read images, he said:

“To plan protests on Armistice Day is provocative and disrespectful, and there is a clear and present risk that the Cenotaph and other war memorials could be desecrated, something that would be an affront to the British public and the values we stand for.

“The right to remember, in peace and dignity, those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for those freedoms must be protected.

“I have asked the Home Secretary to support the Met Police in doing everything necessary to protect the sanctity of Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.”

What utter – insulting – twaddle.

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Sunak is disrespecting every single man or woman who died in war with those words, and here’s why:

Armistice Day and Remembrance Day commemorate people who died to protect our freedoms – including the freedom to protest against war.

The honoured dead who we remember on those days fought to end war, and prohibiting an event calling for the end of a war is the gravest insult to their memory that anybody could commit – especially a serving UK prime minister.

He suggests that the cenotaph and other war memorials may be desecrated, and that preventing the possibility of this should rank higher than permitting the British people to express their right to free speech. This alone contradicts the very reason those memorials exist; it denies their reason for existing in the first place.

If the safety of a piece of rock is more important to Sunak than the freedom – the right to free speech – of the British people, then he is spitting on the graves of everybody commemorated by that rock, who died to protect that freedom.

If their purpose has been forgotten – as he seems to have done – then perhaps they should be torn down altogether and replaced with something that makes the original purpose more clear – even to the likes of Sunak.

He mentions “those freedoms” for which “those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice” fought – but doesn’t even bother to admit what they are, because if he did, he would not be able to justify the draconian response he is planning.

I fear that he is being deliberately provocative. But if he wants a confrontation, it will only show that the UK’s leaders have lost their way and must be removed.


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