Keir Starmer was having trouble defining genocide at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday but insisted that Israel was not committing genocide. He should have very little difficulty since he is often described as a human rights lawyer. The rest of us know that Israel is committing genocide. While not a definition, we can see that they are from indiscriminate mass-murder, targeting hospitals, healthcare workers, journalists, aid workers, using starvation and disease as weapons of war, forcible displacements and the statements made by Israeli ministers e.g. Smotrich and Ben-Gvir.

It should be recognised that the UK and US are active participants in Israel’s genocides and that Keir Starmer, David Lammy and others in the UK Labour Party are therefore genocidal war criminals. UK’s military forces are participating in genocide and the cabinet are supposedly held jointly responsible under UK law. [ed: The problem is that t] They need to be held accountable, prosecuted and convicted.