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Ed Husic-led push for Labor to recognise Gaza genocide fails, preventing public stoush by Dan Jervis-Bardy

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Ed Husic’s push for Labor to recognise claims of a genocide against Israel has failed amid resistance from factional powerbrokers, prompting the backbencher to criticise the party’s culture under Anthony Albanese.

On Saturday, the former industry minister said he doesn’t “give a shit” if senior colleagues freeze him out for constantly breaking ranks, and vowed to keep speaking about contentious issues.

… The proposed resolution also supported trade sanctions,backed the investigation and prosecution of dual nationals who fought with the Israel Defense Force, and called for defence and trade officials to leave Australia’s embassy in Tel Aviv. It also called on the government to build on its recognition of a Palestinian state by exchanging ambassadors and consolidating diplomatic ties.

The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) originally agreed to back Husic’s resolution after other left-wing unions were pressured to withdraw their support.

Continue reading at https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/25/ed-husic-labor-gaza-genocide-claims-ntwnfb

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Keir Starmer’s legacy shaped by Gaza genocide and UK civil liberties crackdown by Taufiq Wan

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“Under Starmer’s leadership, the UK continued to provide arms to Israel while its forces bombed Gaza’s hospitals into rubble and deliberately starved an entire population of the food and medicines they needed to survive,” Talbot said in an emailed statement.

The war on Gaza also had a chilling effect on civil liberties in Britain, with Starmer’s government taking extraordinary measures against protesters.

In 2025, the government proscribed Palestine Action as a terror group after members of the organisation sprayed red paint over two aircraft at a UK military base. Rights groups slammed the designation as an overreach, as it put the group on the same legal footing as international terror groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.

Continue reading at https://www.newarab.com/news/starmers-legacy-shaped-gaza-genocide-uk-rights-crackdown

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Liberal Israeli icon calls to raze Gaza neighborhoods by Jonathan Ofir

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In response to Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip, Amiram Levin, a former Labor Party hopeful, retired Major General, and former deputy head of Mossad, has called to “flatten” whole neighborhoods in Gaza… Levin says Israel should allow loosening the siege in some respects while also promising to “flatten every neighborhood,” This is Levin’s supposed balance – offer a carrot, and commit a genocidal war crime with no hesitation… this is far from the first time he has uttered such an outrageous call to genocide. In 2017, he threatened to “tear the Palestinians apart” and “toss them across the Jordan” – he said that the Palestinians “deserved the occupation” and that “next time we’ll fight here, they will not remain, we will toss them across the Jordan.” Levin is also on record for saying that “most of these [Palestinian] people are born to die anyway, we just need to help them to it.”

 

Continue watching at https://mondoweiss.net/2023/05/liberal-israeli-icon-calls-to-raze-gaza-neighborhoods/

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Invitation to the WFTU International Symposium in Solidarity with the Palestinian People by World Federation of Trade Unions

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On the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on 29 November, the WFTU, representing 105 million workers in 133 countries, reiterates its firm internationalist support and solidarity with the heroic Palestinian people… We express our full, firm and long-standing class solidarity with the people of Palestine and their struggle for an independent homeland. We actively reject the genocide against our Palestinian brothers and sisters perpetrated by the imperialist criminal government of Israel.

Continue reading at https://www.wftucentral.org/invitation-to-the-wftu-international-symposium-in-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people-november-29th-2021/

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John McDonnell comes under fire for Gaza attempted genocide claim on Herald Scotland Online

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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has been criticised over a speech in which he described Israeli attacks on Gaza as attempted genocide.

…Speaking to a Unite the Resistance event at a time of intensive Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza enclave, Mr McDonnell said: “It’s absolutely critical now that we use every platform we can to expose what’s going on, which is effectively an attempt at genocide against the Palestinians.”

Continue reading at http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16407748.john-mcdonnell-comes-under-fire-for-gaza-attempted-genocide-claim/?ref=rss

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UK protestors question Labor party’s John Prescott about genocide in Gaza

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21st September 2014 – John Prescott runs away from questions about the Labour party support for the genocide being carried out in Gaza. G4S hired to protect the delegates at the conference are responsible for Human Rights abuses in Palestine and have an ever increasing role in the privatization of prisons and policing services in the UK.

Continue watching at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5NBXCGD3oU

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