{"id":410405,"date":"2025-09-09T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410405\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:23:14","slug":"uk-policy-on-gaza-is-genocide-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410405\/","title":{"rendered":"UK policy on Gaza is genocide denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"metadata\">\n  09 Sep 2025<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/greens.scot\/issues\/external-affairs\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">External Affairs<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>  Labour is complicit in the mass killing of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Forced_Displacement_of_Gaza_Strip_Residents_During_the_Gaza-Israel_War_23-25.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The UK government is engaging in genocide denial, says Scottish Green external affairs spokesperson Patrick Harvie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The comments follow the publication of a letter from Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy to the chair of the international development committee, which denies that Israel is inflicting genocide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patrick said<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe UK government\u2019s policy amounts to genocide denial and represents a grotesque new low.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are totally ignoring Palestinian rights and lives in order to keep arming and supporting an Israeli government that is committing some of the worst war crimes and atrocities of this century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLabour used to duck the issue, saying it was up to the Courts to determine, but now they are going into outright denial. The humanitarian crisis is getting worse while Labour\u2019s response is getting even more shameful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith President Herzog about to touch down in the UK, Labour is legitimising Israel&#8217;s war crimes while locking people up for holding cardboard signs. It is the exact opposite of what should be happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntire communities have been destroyed, families are being starved while people are being murdered while queuing up for aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Labour\u2019s line in the sand? What would it take for Keir Starmer and his colleagues to finally say that enough is enough and that Israel has gone too far?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"09 Sep 2025 External Affairs Labour is complicit in the mass killing of Palestinians. The UK government is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-410405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115174323430153733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}