People take part in a pro-Palestine march in central London organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, April 13, 2024…
Corbyn’s Gaza (Independent Public Inquiry) Bill, tabled the very day that polling shows a majority of the public want a full arms embargo on Israel and even for the country to be expelled from the United Nations for its genocidal war on Palestinians, shows he is still playing that vital role: voicing, in the corridors of power, the views of millions of ordinary people shut out by a suffocating ruling-class consensus.
His Bill is supported by a range of independent and Labour MPs, as well as some from the Greens, Plaid Cymru and Scottish National Party.
The numbers should be much higher: Britain’s active role in the genocide runs deep, and too much of it is cloaked in secrecy.
The bits people know about, such as continuing arms sales to a military killing scores of civilians every single day, have appalled public opinion.
How much more so if the whole sordid story, the details of what is passed from the hundreds of RAF surveillance flights over Gaza to the Israeli authorities, the troop-training and logistical support, the ways in which our air force’s Akrotiri base on Cyprus supports Israel’s war effort, were to come into the open.
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