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CAMPAIGNERS took a swipe at Liz Kendall yesterday after she argued that Labour should not have voted to recognise the state of Palestine.
The leadership hopeful said that she did not vote — even with pressure from her constituents — and claimed that “a two-state solution can only be realised through negotiation” rather than passing Commons and United Nations (UN) resolutions.
She argued that her abstention was “the right thing to do” in an address on Monday night at hustings held by Labour Friends of Israel and the Jewish Chronicle.
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
The electoral cost of Labour’s stance on Gaza is impossible to ignore – the new leadership must take heed, argues PETER LEARY
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights