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The Owen Jones Podcast

Grieving Palestinian Dragged From Labour Meeting

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This is blood boiling stuff.

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I'm about to show you a clip of a Palestinian man grieving for his family

0:38.3

slaughtered by his ready weapons in Gaza forcibly dragged out from a Labour Party meeting in Stopport, my hometown.

0:47.0

And then I'm going to speak to him.

0:51.0

But before I do, I just want to say this, my blood boiled when I saw this clip on social media.

0:58.0

I felt fury and shame. I've never felt a shame to be from Stockport before. I joined the

1:07.3

Labour Party in Stockport when I was 15 years old. Those two politicians

1:11.5

are saw standing there. Angela Rayna, Deputy Leader with the Labour Party,

1:15.6

who grew up literally round the corner from me, literally round the corner.

1:19.2

Jonathan Reynolds, Shadow Business Secretary, I have campaigned alongside both of them.

1:24.0

Repeatedly, I've done fundraisers for stockport labour, like that one, with them.

1:28.8

In fact, on one occasion I stayed at Jonathan Reynolds' house.

1:33.0

And to watch them stand there,

1:37.0

and those Stoppport Labour activists,

1:39.0

many of whom undoubtedly have met,

1:41.0

maybe even grew up with, campaigned alongside, do nothing while that grief-stricken

1:46.7

man was dragged out of that room is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen in my

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