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Labour conference votes to sanction Israel and recognise Gaza genocide (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 1 month ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Labour party delegates have voted that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and should be sanctioned, in a shock development at the annual party conference.

The unprecedented move means that the Labour conference has officially accepted the findings of a recent UN Commission of Inquiry report, which found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and has backed comprehensive sanctions on Israel and a full arms embargo.

It signals significant discontent among the Labour rank and file with government policy. Britain recognised a Palestinian state last week but has rejected calls to denounce Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide.

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[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I seem to remember the conference last year voting to bring in proportional representation and scrap fptp, and being ignored. Is this any different? I'm not well up on Labour's inner machinery. But at the moment it seems to me like the leadership can just ignore this, like they did the PR vote.

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes the Labour leadership is made up of Zionist prostitutes so most likely it will be ignored. But it's ammunition to take down Kid Starver

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they'll they stop funding and arming israel while taking money from israel lobbies right?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Oh no, is this what it feels like for the Labour party to cut your legs from under you? Doesn't feel so good being on the receiving end, does it Keir.

[–] bomberesque@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So do they support plasticine action now?

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Palestine Action is not the same as Palestine.

They support Palestine, they do not support PA.

[–] florge@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why are they calling it a shock development? This was bound to happen.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

It's slightly shocking because Labour leaders tried to pass another motion which stated that Israel might be committing genocide instead of actually committing it, but that didn't work.