Burnham rejects MPs’ call to recognise Gaza genocide

MP: UK must stop evading genocide obligations after Sadiq Khan’s admission

Independent MP Adnan Hussain has demanded action from the UK government after London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan admitted Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Khan is supported in his demand by at least nine other parliamentarians. International law requires International Criminal Court (ICC) member states take every available action to prevent genocide. The Starmer government contorted itself shamelessly to strenuously deny the genocide. New PM Andy Burnham …

Standing For The Rights Of Those In Gaza

I wish I had Mr. Doug Mersman’s certainty. In his letter (WKT Mailbag, July 10), he stated, “There is no genocide in Gaza.” Full stop. He was responding to the small group carrying Palestinian flags in Webster’s recent Community Days…

Burnham rejects MPs’ call to recognise Gaza genocide

The new British government has rejected calls from dozens of parliamentarians to recognise Israel's war on Gaza as genocide and impose sanctions on the country. Prime Minister Andy Burnham's government, which took office last Monday, is facing pressure to match its stated commitment to international law with concrete action by recognising what MPs describe as Israel's genocide against Palestinians and holding Israeli leaders accountable. Last we…

Palestinians to Burnham: Do No Harm

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, in his tongue-in-cheek apology for Labour’s position on Palestine, stated that his party under Keir Starmer ‘didn’t get it right’ and needs to ‘do better.’ This must be the mother of all British understatements.Britain under Labour, just as under the Conservatives, has been complicit in arming, justifying, and whitewashing apartheid Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, its intensified ethnic…