Today the Labour leadership pressured Kim Johnson MP to withdraw remarks she made suggesting the Israeli Government contains fascists and that Israel practises apartheid. This was predictable but nonetheless shameful. Here’s why: (1/6)
#IsraeliApartheid
#IsraeliApartheid
Predictable because it matches with Keir Starmer's refusal to accept the overwhelming evidence of Israel’s practice of apartheid, as presented by Palestinian civil society, legal experts and human rights organisations including @amnesty. (2/6) bit.ly/3JvBhB2
Shameful because it reinforces complicity with the injustices being perpetrated on Palestinians by refusing even to name them. (3/6)
https://twitter.com/KreaseChan/status/1620735636272730112?s=20&t=38FjMCBj8_WvstR9WIsdJA
The idea that it is problematic to define the Israeli government as fascist is ridiculous. Ask yourself this: If fascist means far right authoritarian, ultranationalist and racist, who can seriously argue that this is not an accurate description of Netanyahu’s coalition. (4/6)
And if the concern is that there is something problematic about the use of the word fascist in this context because of its historic connotations, even former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, used precisely that word to describe the current government. (5/6) bit.ly/3RpjjC3
Kim Johnson said nothing wrong. It's not her who should be apologising. Its those who forced her to retract her words. (6/6)
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