Andy Burnham Declines to Call Israel’s Mass Killings in Gaza a Genocide (novaramedia.com)
from EatingOnions@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 12:07
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TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club on 25 Jun 12:16 next collapse

Person wanting to be prime minister says least surprising (or doesn’t) thing ever. What did people expect?

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 12:27 next collapse

People were hoping he’d call a spade a spade I guess

bedwyr@piefed.ca on 25 Jun 12:51 next collapse

Not a chance here, he is an establishment tool. It’s good to get rid of Keir but this guy is going to be just as bad.

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 15:47 collapse

At least acknowledge we are seeing the same horrible reality so that we can make the same effective work for change.

kreskin@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 17:37 next collapse

People expected a leader who had some interest in what his constituents want instead of what monied genocidal foreign power demands.

theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Jun 18:05 collapse

Maybe acknowledge the basic facts and not be a genocider.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 25 Jun 12:20 next collapse

At least, not until they’re all gone. /s

itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 12:21 next collapse

A second Keir, and just as genocidal

Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus on 25 Jun 13:34 collapse

Wanted to say the same. From the frying pan into the fire. Labour will get wrecked in the next elections.

fonix232@fedia.io on 25 Jun 13:47 collapse

Only for the similarly Israel funded Reform to win, because while we keep fighting on whether the next candidate is anti-Israel enough, Reform manages to unite the dumbfucks of the country.

And if Brexit has proven anything it's that the damn country has way too many dumbfucks who'll gladly throw away everything just so a guy who blames the "right" people for the country's troubles gets to be PM.

Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus on 25 Jun 13:58 next collapse

I agree. Labours weakness in recognizing that a more leftist oriented stance is needed will be a windfall for the Reform Nazis.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net on 25 Jun 15:02 collapse

i mean, people could try voting Green, no ? fascist or fascist lite it is ffs

Tetragrade@leminal.space on 25 Jun 12:28 next collapse

Kind of oddly worded. Sounds like he doesn’t want to comment on it because he’s not PM yet.

mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Jun 12:58 collapse

He is in the labour friend of israel organization

Fleur_@aussie.zone on 25 Jun 13:04 next collapse

We did it Reddit

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 25 Jun 13:56 next collapse

Oh, awesome. Another genocide apologist.

Jaggs@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 14:29 collapse

Hmm. Not strictly black and white, is it?

“The Manchester mayor also backed the formal recognition of a Palestinian state, co-signing a letter in June 2025 demanding the UK government take action to protect the two-state framework.”

Forsho@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jun 14:41 next collapse

Actually it is, if you spare your mind this centrist liberal BS you wrote. It will be as clear as the tens of thousands of children that Israel killed/still killing in the past two years.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 25 Jun 14:43 next collapse

This isn’t some game of political points. The world’s preeminent genocide scholars via their international body, the UN independent commission of inquiry, and a whole host of credible human rights organizations are calling it a genocide. Either a politician accepts overwhelming evidence or they live in post-truth lalaland, the same space as antivaxxers and climate deniers.

theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Jun 18:05 collapse

Support for a bantustan Palestinian puppet state is not a good thing.

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca on 25 Jun 14:57 next collapse

What a disgusting excuse for a human being.

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 16:33 next collapse

What a stupid asshole.

Flower@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jun 17:13 next collapse

Sure, and 9/11 was just a navigation error.

quarkquasar@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 17:27 collapse

Fine, call it a “shadow” genocide, package it with the Epstein files, and let’s get the ball rolling on ridding the world leadership of pedophiles!

Or, I’m guessing, we won’t.