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The Owen Jones Podcast

Labour Disgraces Itself Over Gaza

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Labour has just suspended left-wing MP Kate Osamor. Her crime? Describe Israel's onslaught on Gaza as a genocide, just days after the highest court on earth placed Israel on trial for possible genocide.


Meanwhile, Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy claims the party has always been clear through the conflict that international law must be upheld. That is a lie. Here's the sordid truth about Labour's wretched Gaza policy - and how it's allowed the Tories - and Israel - to get away with murder.

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Labour have completely disgraced themselves overgars there.

0:03.2

Their behaviour has been completely unforgivable and that matters for two reasons.

0:07.6

One, it has allowed the Conservatives to get away with murder, literally.

0:12.0

The government can keep arming and backing Israel as it butchers the people of Gaza,

0:17.0

knowing that they won't come under domestic political pressure for doing so.

0:21.0

Secondly, labor is the inevitable government in waiting given the

0:24.9

total implosion of the Conservative Party. So what's the latest outrage on the part of

0:30.0

Labour? They've suspended the left-wing MP Kay Osamore, one of the only black

0:34.3

female Labour MPs. Now bear in mind they've already de facto booted Dan Abbott who

0:39.3

was the first ever black female MP elected, while other the the Labour MPs, who are white and not left

0:44.6

wing have been treated completely differently, like Neil Coyle, who racially harassed a journalist

0:49.6

and reportedly had a complaint of sexual harassment against him, he had the whip restored and

0:54.4

sits again as a labor MP. On the other hand, judging by what's happened to left-wing MPs, they

0:59.6

won't restore the whip to Gate Osamore and thus ban her from standing as an MP and it's not just

1:05.3

her.

1:06.3

Now what is Kate Osamore's crime?

1:08.3

In her weekly newsletter to local Labour members sent last Friday she she wrote, and I quote, that Holocaust Memorial Day

1:15.3

is an international day to remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, the

1:20.0

millions of other people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups and more recent

1:25.4

genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and now Gaza.

1:31.0

Now first things first, Holocaust Memorial Day exists to remember the shower that is the Nazis

1:36.4

genocide of European Jews and other genocides. In the words of the Holocaust Memorial

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