Genocide in the West Bank – Israel’s Terrifying Promise
Britain’s Fabricated Migrant Crisis
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/britain-migrant-crisis-small-boats
Though small-boat crossings account for a tiny and shrinking share of UK immigration, the Labour Party has made them a central issue, all the while ignoring deeper crises like the slow erosion of the country’s National Health Service.
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[B]ehind these political sound bites lies a profound human tragedy. These are desperate people fleeing war, persecution, and unimaginable hardship, seeking safety and dignity. Policies aimed solely at deterrence, and the toxic media narratives that sustain them, reduce human lives to nothing more than political bargaining chips. This relentless framing not only dehumanizes asylum seekers but also turns their suffering into political ammunition, eroding public sympathy.
Perhaps most disappointing of all is Labour’s obsessive focus on small boats, which stands in stark contrast to its sluggish, half-hearted responses to other far more urgent crises. The country’s National Health System’s waiting lists have hit record highs while Starmer has prioritized his anti-migrant campaign; over seven million people, 10 percent of the country’s total population, are stuck in long waits for vital treatment. Homelessness has surged by 20 percent in the past year alone, leaving thousands without shelter or hope. In this context, the government’s fixation on a relatively small migration issue is not just misguided — it’s a deliberate distraction from the nation’s real challenges.
Labour must break free from this cycle of fear-mongering. It’s time to lead with courage, compassion, and above all, truth. Only by rejecting division and embracing evidence-based, humane policies can the UK protect vulnerable lives and restore integrity to its immigration debate.
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See the original article at https://jacobin.com/2025/08/britain-migrant-crisis-small-boats
Labour’s attempt to find successor to Diane Abbott ‘under way’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/15/diane-abbott-suspension-labour-mp-successor
Exclusive: Contenders teed up for future contest, which MP says seems ‘to pre-empt results of investigation’
Moves to find a successor to Diane Abbott in the parliamentary seat she has represented since 1987 are under way, prompting concern that her fate has been decided before an investigation into her latest suspension has concluded.
Figures on Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) have spoken to potential contenders, teeing them up for a future contest in her constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington, and giving them informal advice on how to prepare, according to a party source.
Abbott was suspended from the party in July for repeating that Jewish people do not experience racism in the same way as Black people[*1], a statement that had earned her a previous suspension in April 2023.
Labour said there would be no discussion of potential successor as an investigation was ongoing. The party said there had been no discussions about alternative candidates at any NEC meetings and no proposals put to NEC members about a selection process.
Abbott said: “It does seem to be rather pre-empting the results of the investigation.”
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Article continues at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/15/diane-abbott-suspension-labour-mp-successor
*1 I suggest that it shouldn’t be reduced to “Jewish people do not experience racism in the same way as Black people.” While that is how it’s perceived and dealt with by the Zionist Labour party, it’s more about there being different forms and consequent experiences of racism and not addressing Jewish people specifically.
“Clearly, there must be a difference between racism which is about colour and other types of racism because you can see a Traveller or a Jewish person walking down the street, you don’t know.
“I just think that it’s silly to try and claim that racism which is about skin colour is the same as other types of racism. I don’t know why people would say that.”