{"id":100148,"date":"2023-10-20T20:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T20:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=100148"},"modified":"2023-10-20T20:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T20:30:58","slug":"pro-palestine-protestors-chant-shame-on-you-outside-labour-party-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/pro-palestine-protestors-chant-shame-on-you-outside-labour-party-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestine protestors chant &apos;shame on you&apos; outside Labour Party HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pro-Palestine demonstrators chant &#8216;shame on you&#8217; outside Labour Party headquarters to condemn its stance on Israel-Hamas war<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Protesters said Starmer had failed to recognise &#8216;war crimes committed by Israel&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanted &#8216;shame on you&#8217; as they protested outside the Labour Party&#8217;s headquarters to condemn its stance on the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n<p>The group shouted: &#8216;Labour Party blood on your hands&#8217; and &#8216;no more money for Israel&#8217;s crimes &#8216;as they took part in the event<span>\u00a0organised by London <\/span>Palestine<span> Action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>TFL buses, taxis and ordinary drivers beeped their horns in support of the demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters expressed disappointment that Sir Keir Starmer failed to recognise &#8216;international war crimes committed by Israel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the Labour leader had appeared to suggest that Israel has &#8216;the right&#8217; to withhold energy and water from Gaza in an interview with LBC in the wake of Hamas launching a murderous assault on Israeli civilians.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/18\/76813047-12654793-image-m-30_1697824451425.jpg\" height=\"369\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The group shouted: &#8216; Labour Party blood on your hands&#8217; and &#8216;no more money for Israel&#8217;s crimes &#8216;as they took part in the event organised by London Palestine Action<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/18\/76813049-12654793-image-a-33_1697824478867.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ezra, 30, from London , who is Jewish, was among the protestors &#8211; and accused Sir Keir of exploiting antisemitism for &#8216;personal and political gain&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/18\/76813345-12654793-image-a-34_1697824520073.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Protesters expressed disappointment that Sir Keir Starmer failed to recognise &#8216;international war crimes committed by Israel&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0Sir Keir argued on Friday that he had intended to say that Israel has the right to defend itself and retrieve the around 200 hostages being held &#8216;within international law&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A number of the party&#8217;s councillors have resigned over what they perceived as &#8216;horrifying&#8217; comments that he was &#8216;endorsing a war crime&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Keir Starmer faces rebellion over Gaza as almost 30 Labour MPs (and ex-leader Jeremy Corbyn) demand immediate ceasefire &#8211; but leader&#8217;s spokesman says Israel has a right to rescue hostages held by Hamas terrorists\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Ezra, 30, from London, who is Jewish, accused Sir Keir of exploiting antisemitism for &#8216;personal and political gain&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;He has tried very hard recently to put out some statements to appease people but we see right through him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He can&#8217;t undo the damage he&#8217;s done already, he can&#8217;t undo the licence he has given Israel to commit war crimes and the damage he has done within the Jewish community.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday Starmer distanced himself from a group of almost 30 of his backbenchers who are demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The group, mainly made up of supporters of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, are among more than 40 MPs voicing &#8216;deep alarm at the Israeli military bombardment and total siege of Gaza&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MPs signed an early day motion &#8211; a non-binding way MPs can show their feelings on a particular issue &#8211; demanding an immediate end to the conflict that has engulfed the Palestinian enclave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shadia Zai, a 35-year-old member of London Palestine Action and a resident of Sir Keir&#8217;s constituency Holborn and St Pancras, criticised the &#8216;horrific rhetoric&#8217; of the Labour Party regarding the conflict.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/18\/76813045-12654793-image-a-31_1697824465241.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>All protesters interviewed stated they had &#8216;lost confidence&#8217; in the Labour Party and would not vote for them in the upcoming general election<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/18\/76813055-12654793-image-a-32_1697824471691.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It comes days after Starmer distanced himself from a group of almost 30 of his backbenchers who are demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza<\/p>\n<p>Ms Zai, a Palestinian who has family in the West Bank, said they were under threat from &#8216;Israeli settler violence&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Furious Palestine supporters continue tearing down posters of Israeli children kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in latest UK confrontations caught on camera &#8211; with one telling filmers to &#8216;f*** off&#8217; while another says &#8216;go cry&#8217;\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>She continued: &#8216;We&#8217;re really concerned that the leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer (and) David Lammy who is shadow foreign secretary have both sought to endorse and justify Israel&#8217;s military action.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What we are saying is the Labour Party needs to be at the forefront&#8230; making calls for an immediate ceasefire, to stop the bombing and call for the UK to stop arming Israel.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>All protesters interviewed stated they had &#8216;lost confidence&#8217; in the Labour Party and would not vote for them in the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n<p>Blk Moody, 29, from London, said: &#8216;I&#8217;ve always been with Labour but this is where I draw the line because at the moment Labour is the same as the Tories &#8211; there&#8217;s no difference between them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I won&#8217;t be voting for them anymore. Their hands are covered in blood and it is hiding behind antisemitism to justify genocide.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Zad El Bacha, a 27-year-old from London, stated that she would only vote for Labour if the party changed its position on Israel and called for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters also held a placard labelled &#8216;from river to sea Palestine will be free,&#8217; a slogan that Home Secretary Suella Braverman said on social media was a &#8216;demand for the destruction of Israel&#8217; and a &#8216;staple of antisemitic discourse&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ezra claimed the slogan promotes anti-Zionism, not antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;Anti-Zionism is a legitimate political position for anyone to hold and many Jewish people have always been anti-Zionist since the first conception of Zionism.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Other pro-Palestinian protests took place across the country today, including Manchester, Brighton, Bristol, Leeds, Machynlleth, Bridgend, Oxford and Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12654793\/Pro-Palestine-demonstrators-Labour-Party-headquarters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Palestine demonstrators chant &#8216;shame on you&#8217; 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