{"id":120502,"date":"2023-10-29T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T11:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=120502"},"modified":"2023-10-29T11:53:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T11:53:47","slug":"tories-demand-labour-finally-acts-as-mp-makes-unhinged-ethnic-cleansing-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/politics\/tories-demand-labour-finally-acts-as-mp-makes-unhinged-ethnic-cleansing-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories demand Labour finally acts as MP makes \u2018unhinged ethnic cleansing rant’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pressure is mounting on Keir Starmer this morning after a Labour MP delivered a speech at yesterday\u2019s pro-Palestine rally, which a Jewish MP has described as \u201cunhinged ranting about ethnic cleansing\u201d.<\/p>\n
Andy McDonald, the MP for Middlesbrough and long-time Jeremy Corbyn ally, posted a video of his speech in central London yesterday, which saw him use the phrase “between the river and the sea\u201d.<\/p>\n
He also read the words of Gaza resident Abdalla Hasaneen, claiming Israel\u2019s bombardment \u201cis not about Hamas at all\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about ethnically cleansing Palestinian people. It\u2019s about 2.3 million Palestinian people, that\u2019s why the first thing Israel did was to cut off the water, and cut off the electricity, and cut off the food.\u201d<\/p>\n
He yelled: \u201cLet there be no mistake about it: Israel is committing war crimes against Palestinians on an unprecedented scale\u201d.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong> Demands for Labour MP to delete claims Israel caused Gaza hospital blast<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr McDonald accused Israel of \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n He also refuted that the current IDF action against Gaza \u201cstarted on October 7\u201d, \u201cand that this is all simply about retaliation against Hamas for the terrible crimes it carried out on that day\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cBut friends we know that this is simply not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n This morning Jewish Tory MP Andrew Percy accused the Labour MP of attempting to \u201cbelittle and diminish the events of October 7th, which saw the worst murder of Jews since the Holocaust\u201d.<\/p>\n Mr Percy said Mr McDonald\u2019s comment \u201cdenies Jews and those who died at the hands of savage terrorism the right to be victims and shows a complete ignorance of these events\u201d.<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> <\/p>\n
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