WHILE it may be too early to ascertain how much damage has been done to the Labour Party, Keir Starmer’s obsequiousness to Israel’s apartheid state has undoubtedly cost it a great deal of goodwill, particularly among those Muslim communities that would normally be inclined to offer it unqualified support. 

Already we are witnessing a steady stream of councillors resigning the Labour whip in protest against Starmer’s refusal to condemn atrocities committed by the occupiers of Palestine and because of the appalling comments made by the likes of Emily Thornberry and David Lammy as they toured the TV studios in order to give unqualified backing to the genocidal Netanyahu regime and Israel’s “right to defend itself.”

There is, of course, nothing new in the Parliamentary Labour Party’s connivance with the global forces of reaction, be they in or out of government.