As Keir Starmer Defended Not Calling For A Ceasefire In Gaza, His Car Was Ambushed

Keir Starmer has continued to resist calls to sack rebel frontbenchers who have demanded a ceasefire in Gaza.

The Labour leader attempted to reclaim the initiative amid a growing rebellion among activists, MPs and shadow ministers over his stance on Israel’s offensive in the Strip. Israeli Defence Forces have launched a ground operation against Hamas terrorists who massacred at least 1,400 Israelis when they unleashed a string of attacks on October 7.

He’s called for a humanitarian ‘pause’ to let in vital aid and for people to escape the war zone. However, senior figures frontbenchers Yasmin Qureshi, Jess Phillips and Imran Hussain have joined calls for an end to the fighting. Shadow Justice Minister Alex Cunningham pushed for an ‘immediate ceasefire’ less than an hour before Sir Keir Starmer gave an address at the Chatham House foreign affairs think tank.

Following his speech, about a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters besieged his Land Rover Discovery as police fought to clear a path from the building in London’s St James’s to the vehicle. Chanting demonstrators yelled: ‘Keir Starmer you can’t hide, we charge with you genocide!” and “Keir Starmer you’re a liar, we demand a ceasefire!’ as he emerged.

One man banged a snare drum while others waved Palestinian flags as the atmosphere deteriorated. Police forced back protesters as the car pulled away, speeding to a junction. One activist was pushed against a wall after apparently attempting to get in front of the Land Rover.

In his speech, Sir Keir Starmer continually insisted his response to the crisis was shaped by responding to both the massacre of Jews in Israel by Hamas and the ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ unfolding in Gaza. Hamas would be ’emboldened’ by a ceasefire and start preparing more atrocities, the Labour leader said.

He told guests that while he understood calls for a ceasefire at this stage, he did not believe that it was the correct position now. He said a ceasefire always freezes any conflict in the state where it currently lies, and as we speak, that would leave Hamas with the infrastructure and the capabilities to carry out the sort of attack they saw on October 7, attacks that were still ongoing, hostages who should be released, still held. Hamas would be emboldened and start preparing for future violence immediately.

He said that a humanitarian pause was the only credible approach, which could see ‘the urgent alleviation of Palestinian suffering’.

Pressed by reporters why frontbenchers who are bound by collective responsibility, the principle that they adopt a unified position, were not being fired after breaking the rule, he admitted that it was for him to address collective responsibility and he recognised that.

He added that it mattered that he took that duty extremely seriously, but he put it in the context of understanding what was driving people in the call for a ceasefire, which was in his judgment not the call that they should be making as things stood.

How is he supporting Britain by turning a blind eye to their ongoing war crimes?

Notice how the police force manages to have enough plods on duty to protect the elite, but not enough for other crimes on the streets, and so it seems these police jobs are there to protect the elite but not for the likes of you and me.

The sick, disabled and elderly are looked upon as excess baggage and our homeless are being booted out onto the streets with their children, and the Government forget that we are human beings.

Of course, any country has the right to protect itself, but it’s how a person or country protects itself, and the slaying of innocent civilians in order to destroy others is not acceptable.

I await the verbal onslaught but in my opinion, innocent civilians, especially children must be protected at all costs.

This madness must stop now! There’s no justification for the slaughter of innocent civilians and children. Once we condone the international killing of innocent people, especially children, then humankind is doomed.

Humanity, compassion and the belief that all human life is precious must prevail.