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Some journalists have party affiliations / memberships but are politically inactive and it does not impact on impartial journalism. I am one of those. However, I cannot keep my Labour Party membership while Sir Keir Starmer greenlights Israel to carry out mass murder in #Gaza 1/
So today I have resigned my Labour membership in protest over Labour's position on Gaza. I will not be joining any political party that has stood candidates in past elections, and will be continuing as an independent journalist and editor. I'll just add that it make me sick... 2/
...to my stomach to see Labour, Tories and LibDems endorsing what is effectively ethnic cleansing and could yet turn into genocide, with such flagrant disregard for international law while ignoring the biggest charities and multilateral agencies in the world. 3/
What Hamas did was a war crime, but the answer is not more war crimes. No one has the right to commit or co-sign such inhumanity. The collective punishment of millions of Gazans for the actions of Hamas is the same logic that terrorists use. 4/
https://x.com/LesterJHolloway/status/1713560989277323271?s=20
Just as Black Lives Matter does not mean white lives don't matter, standing up for Gaza is not in any way excusing what Hamas did last week. But the violence has to stop, and any party that endorses innocent families being killed does not deserve support. 5/5
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