Israel Palestine: UK and America must stop arms sales immediately | Shami Chakrabarti interview 

You can't fix one atrocity by making another.

There's this fixation on the Nick Ferarri interview and Starmer's comments and misrepresentation of what he meant, that it was somehow an isolated error. No. The error has been the Labour silence on the issue from the beginning, leaving the SNP to repeatedly ask the tough questions in PMQs.

Thatcher after Israel bombed Lebanon withdrew arms sales to Israel for over a decade so its not unprecdented and considering Sunak seeks to emulate the Italian PM Meloni which has stopped arms to Israel so you would think given those two counts Sunak could withdraw sales so easily.

Everyone needs to speak up !!!!!

I just can see how Starmer made an error. How could anyone make an error like that ??

It's good to hear a reasonable and sane voice.. ❤

The actions of the United States are not substantive, the " pause " is just that, and when it has served its distraction purpose, arms shipments will resume, and the deficit will be made up. I hope Spain and Ireland move to recognise the Palestinian State, and other EU Member States follow their example, and set out the requirements for a two-State solution to be defined on the ground.

Mind Begs the Question: - Labeling a group of people Rats is Fascist - Labeling a group of people Human Animals is Not Fascist?

Lovely to see chakrabharty again but why defend Keir? Is she that sold out?

"Exports" not sales ..some isrealli firms ownfactories here... So "exports" must be banned not just sales

I won't be fooled by these labour words 7 and a half months late. The labour party is complicit. And they were saying the opposite before and well into the conflict. Go and check.

Italy stop arms sale to Israel yes.

Awesome. She brilliant guest speaker.

Its never been proportional since 1948

Whatever happened to "two wrongs don't make a right"...??

40+ Years a Labour supporter. Labour + Starmer = Vote greens or Workers party.

Starmer did make a mistake. He mistakenly thought that pandering to Israel would be a major vote winning exercise and he did not realise that he would have faced such a backlash for supporting a regime that enjoys committing war crimes. His error was in thinking that British people had as little regard for human rights as he has!

You dont need to be Human Rights lawyer to know food, water shelter and clothiing are human beings necessity. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 ❤

This lady is absolutely bang on. Very well said and thanks for sharing this.

So the mistake concedes Izzy has been committing war crimes from day one. So why are we still, as a geopolitical entity, supporting Izzy.

Genocide is a war crime tried separately but it's a shame that withdrawal from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is specifically being targeted by the Conservative Party. Today on our doorstep we have the seemingly "unthinkable" situation where two of our most respected organisations (The Post Office Horizon and NHS contaminated blood scandals) have been found to be behaving in the most disgusting manner, essentially causing loss of life or imprisonment to their staff/patients and then trying to conceal it. This has continued underneath Labour, Liberal and Tory Governments and despite exposure neither organisation has come close to compensating those affected. The NHS is a post-WW2 creation but the Post Office was created many generations ago - yet both have been found to be rotten to the core. They have shamed the entire country and had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the public arena by individuals and journalists - no sign of the police or lawyers because if anything they have been played and taken for fools. Both organisations now prefer to sit on their hands, failing to pay compensation to many affected and instead preferring to let them die. Hopefully, the Post Office has nothing left to hide on the same scale, however the NHS is another story. Even in general nursing it has developed a culture of concealment and turning a blind eye to crimes including murder. When the now convicted mass killer of babies, Lucy Lethby, was first thought to be a danger, the doctors and consultants who brought it to the attention of their management, they were forced to write letters of apology to her. Whistleblowers of individual scandals routinely never work for the NHS again, which suggests the last kind of doctor they want is one who is known for telling the truth, suggesting there is much to hide elsewhere. The same applies to social care staff who interact with the organisation. The "Duty of Candour" is possibly the most abused piece of legislation on record, on a par with drivers in a general speed-restricted 20mph area, 90% of whom break the law daily. Organisations that are supposed to monitor social care standards, such as the CQC and Safeguarding, are illusory. If anything, they are responsible for driving standards down because they operate tick-box systems with metrics are designed to avoid asking the most important questions. An example would be giving a small care organisation who are in fact demonstrably guilty of practicing a fraudulent deception in order to attract the most vulnerable (aka expensive) residents who find they are being given the exact opposite of what they have been promised and are trapped within an environment that ignores all legislation, civil and criminal law, run by criminals for their specific business purposes and when this is brought to the attention of the authorities, a herculean feat in itself, an "Outstanding" rating just weeks after the authorities have committed not to use in future. And hear I must declare an interest, with an NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC) funded member of my family still trying to get his Assessed Needs even minimally met after 7 years. You might think that everyone in the UK was entitled to a social worker if they needed one. This is wrong. The 40,000 people funded by CHC are prevented by statute law from having one, leaving the organisation to be judge, jury and, quite literally, executioner. There is no right to appeal an unlawful decision other than to the person that made it, other than by Judical Review, which can cost approximately £60k. Even this isn't guaranteed to work as CHC staff have been shown to be untruthful even under oath. What this has led to is an organisation that is rotten to the core and far more difficult to expose as it is entirely self contained, responsible for running a third tier NHS relied upon by the Nation's 40,000 most vulnerable people. But watch this space!

Very very respectable and truthful lady

Need more women like this running things.

"The new protest movement is driving empire managers out of their go**amn minds, which means it's working & must continue." Caitlin Johnston

So why did she wait until now to come out with this . Tories or Labour we are going down the pan.

It’s not fair the rich and bankers aren’t taxed more unlike the poor and working class people and tighten up these wealthy people instead.

These are only fooling themselves.

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Using food and water as weapon of war is wrong

It wasn't a mistake, he was asked specifically about cutting of electricity and water, there's no spinning that. Not voting labour until Starmer is out. End of.

First Saturday then sunday

I will never vote red or blue or yellow... NEVER

The women yesterday was killed for her purse. Doesn't give her family the RIGHT TO KILL EVERYONE IN THAT MANS FAMILY DOES IT????!!!!

Can’t believe that Shami is justifying Starmers words. His words were then followed by Lammy etc. Starmer doesn’t buckle under pressure! He said precisely what he thought he could get away with. And saying that Starmer made a mistake contradicts what Thornberry said on tv just the other day. She said Israel did have the right to shut off water etc in immediate few days after 7/10?!

Disingenuous for defending starma. Good analogy for self defense. Still disingenuous. She would accept that you cant rely on a liar in court...

Who does Chakrabarti think she's fooling by saying Starmer was answering a previous question when asked about cutting off food & water. She's a hypocrite.

You better have words with Thatchers son.

Yes, authoritarianism. and thus militarism is blooming here in the U S as the MAGA movement is off the rails.

She super rich yes Thomas. She got a vote no she Baroness.

shami sold out to old jezza and we did not hear from her for a while,,

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Ummm...

i was saying this months ago ...still got treated like a terrorist for it xD idc

October 7th. Never forget and never again.

All this talk about nothing!!!

These politicians and journalists need to be more truthful about what Israel is doing in Palestine or they could help Israel provoke something bigger like a world conflict

THE WORLD IS WATCHING, WE CAN SEE THROUGH THE LIES

Is it a war crime to try to rescue your country from vicious oppression which started in 1948?

Multiple jewish orgs and groups are absolutely standing for Palestine.

Izzy as an occupier has no self defence against the occupied as per the international law

How about stopping the aid to hamas.. Condeimg what they do to there own citiizens.. never mind what they'd do to jews.

Too many people shedding tears for so called Palestinians instead of studying history and engaging in critical thinking first.

🌟... "Let us never forget that just as one of the Works of the Light of the Sun is to put an end to the Darkness of the Night, the Work of Truth is to put an end to Lies, the Work of Eternal Justice is to put an end to Injustice, and that in the same way, the Work of Good is to free the World from Evil" ... ! ! ! ➕

Everyone knows about Israel's 75 year ethnic cleansing / genocide campaigne

Shami, I always thought you were a person of conscience. How can you defend Starmer? No he was not answering a previous q. Do you all take us for fools. Just listen to what he said. Even if he did make a mistake, why did Emily Thornberry double down on Starmers position the following day? Cos it was the fuking party line.