{"id":87111,"date":"2023-10-30T03:59:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T03:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=87111"},"modified":"2023-10-30T03:59:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T03:59:40","slug":"starmer-under-pressure-as-labour-israel-gaza-divisions-deepen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/starmer-under-pressure-as-labour-israel-gaza-divisions-deepen\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer under pressure as Labour Israel-Gaza divisions deepen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Starmer under pressure to kick out rebel Labour MPs as Israel-Gaza divisions deepen after hard-Left backbencher uses &#8216;anti-Semitic&#8217; chant<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>MP Andy McDonald chanted the &#8216;between the river and the sea&#8217; during a rally<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Chant is seen as anti-Semitic, but Mr McDonald says this is a &#8216;misrepresentation&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure as divisions within Labour grow over Gaza\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer was under pressure to kick out rebel MPs last night as Labour&#8217;s divisions over the war in Israel and Gaza deepened.<\/p>\n<p>Hard-Left backbencher Andy McDonald was lambasted after he used the &#8216;between the river and the sea&#8217; chant during a rally at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;We will not rest until we have justice, until all people &#8211; Israelis and Palestinians &#8211; between the river and the sea can live in peaceful liberty.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, has previously said the chant &#8216;from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free&#8217; has become &#8216;a staple of anti-Semitic discourse&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But Labour&#8217;s former shadow chancellor John McDonnell defended Mr McDonald&#8217;s language.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/01\/77160093-0-image-a-68_1698628530550.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer has come under pressure as Labour divisions over Gaza have deepened\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/01\/77160091-0-image-a-67_1698628527274.jpg\" height=\"876\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hard-Left backbencher Andy McDonald was lambasted after he used the &#8216;between the river and the sea&#8217; chant at a pro-Palestinian rally over the weekend<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/01\/77160095-0-image-a-69_1698628541496.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, has previously said that the chant &#8216;from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free&#8217; has become &#8216;a staple of anti-Semitic discourse&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said claims it was anti-Semitic were a &#8216;complete misinterpretation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He told Times Radio: &#8216;When that phrase was generated, it was actually a phrase about how people can live together. But there has to be justice for the Palestinians in that settlement.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Last night Tory MPs urged Sir Keir to respond to his MPs&#8217; comments.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative former Cabinet minister Simon Clarke said: &#8216;We all know the connotations of the phrase &#8216;between the river and the sea&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Andy McDonald knows exactly what he is doing by saying &#8216;Israelis and Palestinians&#8217;. He&#8217;s tiptoeing up to the line, and daring Labour to respond. Keir Starmer should.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And Tory MP Robert Largan accused Mr McDonnell of &#8216;deliberate trolling the Jewish community&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He is openly daring Starmer to remove the Whip,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>A Conservative spokesman said: &#8216;Just a few weeks ago Sir Keir said Labour was no longer the party of protest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This week his own front bench is in open rebellion, the man he once wanted to be Chancellor is calling for negotiations with Hamas, and one of his ex-Shadow Cabinet Ministers is accusing Israel of &#8216;ethnic cleansing&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If Starmer can&#8217;t keep his own party in order, how can he be trusted to run the country?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/01\/77160103-0-image-a-70_1698628561970.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It has emerged that shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood is privately unhappy with the party&#8217;s position on Gaza<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/01\/77160127-0-image-a-71_1698628731531.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Figures including Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham and Anas Sarwar have defying Sir Keir&#8217;s message and called for a ceasefire in Gaza<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/01\/77160105-0-image-a-72_1698628767925.jpg\" height=\"436\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Peter Kyle, the shadow science secretary, suggested Labour would not sack shadow ministers rebelling over the party&#8217;s position on the issue<\/p>\n<p>Labour has been tearing itself apart over its stance on the conflict, with leading figures including Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham and Anas Sarwar defying Sir Keir&#8217;s message and called for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday it emerged that shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood was privately unhappy with the party&#8217;s position &#8211; becoming the first member of the shadow cabinet to break ranks.<\/p>\n<p>She is said to be calling for the killing of innocent civilians in Gaza to cease and has made her position clear internally.<\/p>\n<p>And in a letter to her Birmingham Ladywood constituents, Ms Mahmood suggested Israel may be guilty of &#8216;collective punishment&#8217; of civilians in Gaza, the Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n<p>Local councillors across England have resigned from Labour to sit as independents amid the rift with the leadership&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, 35 councillors in the borough of Brent, north-west London, signed a statement pressing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Peter Kyle, the shadow science secretary, suggested Labour would not sack shadow ministers rebelling over the party&#8217;s position on the Israel-Hamas conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kyle told the BBC: &#8216;Well look, what we are going to do, I suspect, is continue engaging with them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the debate within Labour, he said: &#8216;I think the fact that we have a vigorous debate within our party, as we are doing as a country, and as we are doing actually as a globe right now, reflects a strength, because we have a leader that has channelled that and turned it into a policy that is in step with all of our international partners.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12686921\/Starmer-pressure-kick-rebel-Labour-MPs-Israel-Gaza-divisions-deepen-hard-Left-backbencher-uses-anti-Semitic-chant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starmer under pressure to kick out rebel Labour MPs as Israel-Gaza divisions deepen after hard-Left backbencher uses &#8216;anti-Semitic&#8217; 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