Julie Edwards Avalon. The reference to Israel as an apartheid state will prove difficult for Starmer too. To join discussions about my work, please visit my Facebook or Twitter page. Under Corbyn, Labour's 2017 and 2019 manifestoes pledged to "immediately recognise the state of Palestine." Labour's press office told The New Arab the party sticks by this commitment on Thursday. [3], As of 2019, the parliamentary members of the group are:[4]. Many of Tony Blair's policy decisions in the Israeli-Palestinian arena were controversial and politically costly. Blair, Labour and Palestine argues that gaps between him and much of his party were rooted in different world views. Labour leader Keir Starmer hoped he would hammer the final nails into the coffin of support for his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn and his left-wing policies at the party’s annual conference in Brighton this week. Starmer rightly understood that neither could be relied on to toe his authoritarian line. That is how the Palestinian Ambassador, Husam Zomlot, described the vote at last week's Labour Party… Against the Labour right's Israel-Palestine policy. Philipps urged the party to punish MPs and officials who take part in “extreme” Palestinian solidarity events or protests against Israel’s occupation, describing participation as “tacitly endorsing antisemitism”. Labour Must Speak up for Palestine. Despite the political noise what we are witnessing Corbyn’s dismissal is a political coup against socialism and the Palestinian cause. Labour Party leaders condemn solidarity with Palestine at LSE university. As Karl Marx said, you can't preach domestic emancipation "with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, squandering in piratical wars". Labour reverses ban on Palestine Solidarity Campaign speaker. The current party leader is Merav Michaeli, who was elected in January 2021. For the lobby, Starmer must continue to be cowed with threats of antisemitism to make sure he does not concede, under grassroots pressure, that Israel is an apartheid state, or support sanctions, or end the UK’s arms sales to Israel – as party members want. Instead, Jewish leaders and the Labour right have weaponised a set of examples attached to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism imposed on Corbyn in 2018. The ‘anti-Semitism’ issue was merely a convenient cover for a more pressing agenda. Delegates at the Labour Party annual conference in Brighton have today passed by a show of hands a composite motion on Israel and Palestine put forward by Young Labour that condemns "Israel's continuing illegal actions". The motion passed at conference falls significantly short of that mark and does a disservice to the cause of ensuring the Labour Party has a fit for purpose Israel-Palestine foreign policy. Why Labour's obsession with Israel and Palestine shows the party's loss of perspective. #Lab21. The Labour Party apologized after banning Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) pro-Palestinian group from speaking at an annual conference on Friday . LFPME was formed in 2009 as a private company. The passing of Young Labour's historic motion, which marks the first time a major British political party has backed the United Nations' definition of Israel as an apartheid state, came after shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy failed to mention the country's occupation of Palestine in her keynote speech. At Labour & Palestine's huge fringe meeting on Tuesday night the Palestinian ambassador said, "I'll tell you about balance," and went on to describe the reality of living under occupation by one of the strongest military regimes on the planet. Moving the motion, Young Labour's Jawad Khan said . Starmer unequivocally recommitted Labour to a two-state solution with Israel 'safe, secure and recognised within its borders.' And finally, John McDonnell, the former shadow chancellor, berated Starmer for behaving “like Stalin” in allowing the last-minute exclusion from the conference of dozens of members identified as Corbyn holdouts. Open Letter to the Labour Party. Labour leader Keir Starmer needs to look strong to win a general election but is still committed to tearing his party apart with antisemitism witch-hunt. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo credit should read OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images via Jewish News) This is essential to be able to draw a profound conclusion regarding the current situation, which is discussed in section three by addressing two questions: A) What are the chances for peace? B) Who plays a major role in this context? The newly appointed . This book analyses the impacts and responses to twenty-five years of "peace" between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Both the apartheid and sanctions components of the motion on Israel, however, serve as a gauntlet showing that the left may not lie down so easily. They can use the glaring injustices heaped on the Palestinian people as a way to keep embarrassing Starmer and reminding Labour members how unprincipled their leader is. The British leaders of the Jewish people of Britain to their shame exploited rearranged ideas of antisemitism to bring down a leader who just might have to lead a civilizing mission in the entire Middle East. The campaign ultimately forced Corbyn to accept a controversial new definition of antisemitism that made it easier for the Labour right – in charge of internal disciplinary procedures – to expel members for making trenchant criticisms of Israel over its decades-long oppression of Palestinians. This book consists of three parts, “Background”, “Close-up” and “Perspective”. He objected to being forced by Starmer’s office to reject union demands for a £15 minimum wage and statutory sick pay on the living wage – two issues the pandemic might have made a vote-winner with the public. Starmer’s meaning would have been entirely unaltered if the word “antisemitism” had been replaced by “socialism” as he addressed party activists: “We’ve turned our back on the dark chapter. Labour conference passes Young Labour Israel and Palestine motion. Jeremy Corbyn had been and remains a supporter of the Palestinian cause all his life. All of this is meant to prepare the ground as Starmer, who has lagged in the polls behind a disastrously inept and corrupt Conservative government, tries to prove his electability – even if only at this stage to Rupert Murdoch and the other billionaire owners of the press. Labour must build on - not step back from - its commitments to immediate recognition of the state of Palestine and an end to the blockade, occupation and settlements as outlined in the 2017 and 2019 manifestos, and in the motions passed by the Party's annual conferences in 2018 and 2019.
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