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23 June 2026

Good Riddance to the Most Hated Prime Minister in British History

 Starmer’s Legacy Will Be That He Supplied Weapons to and Defended Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Whilst Destroying Civil Liberties in Britain


Mehdi Hassan Interviews Owen Jones About His Initial Support for Starmer & What Burnham Represents

You will forgive me if I can’t help gloating at the fall of the most amoral, unprincipled liar to have darkened the doors of No. 10. Compare to Starmer even Liz ‘Lettuce’ Truss and Boris Johnson smell like roses.

Even in his resignation speech Starmer couldn’t help but lie. He claimed to have ripped out the poison of anti-Semitism from the Labour Party whereas what he did was to expel the supporters of the Palestinians, opponents of Zionism and the Genocide that he helped enable.

I Hate Keir Starmer

Starmer managed to expel a record number of Jews, anti-Zionist and anti-racist Jews of course. Being Jewish in the Labour Party meant you were five times more likely to be expelled than non Jews. This was how Starmer fought ‘anti-Semitism’.

Underneath the rhetoric, Starmer was an anti-Semite. Jews were there to legitimise British imperialism. Anti-Zionist Jews were invisible as they didn’t suit his foreign policy agenda. Anti-Semitism and Zionism have always gone together and Starmer was the personification of the anti-Semitic non-Jewish Zionist.


I am surprised though that he forgot to mention in his statement the debt he owed to Peter Mandelson. It was Mandelson who brought Morgan McSweeney in from the cold and enabled his candidacy for Labour Leader even if he was in the end responsible for triggering the process that led to his resignation.


I thought at first it was an oversight but then I realised that paying tribute to a corrupt friend of Jeffrey Epstein, a Zionist and paedophile, would have been a step too far.

There was also no mention of Starmer’s role in attacking basic civil liberties alongside a compliant judiciary. All in the name of ‘national security’. Like in all police states there is no longer a right to demonstrate or protest. There was no difference between Starmer and Sunak/Truss when it came to the constant attacks on the right to protest.


I welcome the fact that the rat has deserted the sinking ship. It is no comfort of course that Starmer’s successor, Andy Burnham, will be no different. Changing the captain when the ship is heading for the rocks will make no difference unless it also changes course.

The failure of Starmer’s ‘Labour’ Government was not simply because of his own palpable inadequacies. The problem lies with the political project that sees Labour propping up a failing imperialist state.

Despite my loathing for Starmer and all he stood for, I take pride in two things. First the fact that Starmer was the first person to welcome my expulsion from the Labour Party, with a solitary word, ‘good’. One of his characteristics is that he is a man of few words and even fewer ideas.



Like Horatio Bottomley Starmer was a corrupt right-wing nationalist but unlike him he was anything but popular. Starmer’s corruption was not so much financial, though there was  plenty of that, but a corruption of the political process. Starmer came to power through the Labour Together outfit, who hid their donations for fear of what they might reveal.

Starmer also hid the donations he received from right-wing Zionists, businessmen and crooked financiers from Labour Party voters when he stood for Labour Leader. He relied on the rules rather than being honest and open about who was funding him. His cynicism was such that he stood on a left-wing manifesto whilst relying on right-wing businessmen to fund his campaign.

Amongst those who donated to Starmer was

Lord Waheed Alli         £100,000 (he also gave financial backing to Andy Burnham in the 2015 Labour leadership contest).

Bob Latham        £100,000. 

Martin Taylor      £95,000, a hedge fund manager.

Clive Hollick,       £50,000 a businessman & co-founder of the Institute for Public Policy Research. 

Trevor Chinn       £50,000 a notorious Zionist who funds Labour Friends of Israel. 

Peter Coates       £25,000, Bet365 owner. 

Martin Clarke     £25,000, former AA finance director

Paul Myners       £10,000, ex-CEO at Marks & Spencers. Along with Martin Taylor, Myners helped finance the anti-Corbyn group Labour Tomorrow.

This totalled £455,000 compared to £81,400 from three right-wing trade unions, UNISON, Community and USDAW. This is how Starmer’s Labour Party was captured.

It was an honour and pleasure for me to know that I had antagonised Starmer to the extent that he blocked me on X. Clearly my pearls of wisdom riled him.

Alexei Sayle brought out a brilliant video ‘Why I hate Keir Starmer’ which summed Starmer up perfectly. However I don’t hate Starmer, I despise him and all he stands for.

Starmer was a man of few talents with the exception of his ability to lie. Who else could make 10 Pledges to get elected and then break every single one?

The Pledge I loved the most was No. 4 – Titled ‘Promote peace and human rights’. He said

‘No more illegal wars. Introduce a Prevention of Military Intervention Act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.’

Starmer's idea of ‘peace and human rights’ was supplying arms and intelligence to Israel so it could carry out a genocide in Gaza. Starmer denied that there was a genocide in Gaza despite Israel massacring tens of thousands of civilians, destroying 90% of buildings including hospitals and schools and ethnic cleansing, raping and torturing. But Starmer had no problem describing other massacres as genocide.

Starmer never did explain why 8,000 dead in Srebenica was a genocide but Gaza wasn’t a genocide. I doubt that even the worst neo-Nazi holocaust denier could match him.

On 2 February 2020, two months before Labour’s leadership election, I wrote a blog Keir Starmer is the candidate that the Deep State & the British  Establishment want you to vote for’ .

Unfortunately most Labour Party members weren't able to see through Starmer and his record as Director of Public Prosecutions when he persecuted Julian Assange and protected Jimmy Saville.

There is less excuse for Owen Jones who wrote an article for The Guardian 'Starmer can succeed, and he deserves our support.'  There really was no excuse for this as a cursory dive into his record as DPP would have shown he was fiercely reactionary and pro-Police and contemptuous of civil liberties.  I take no pleasure in once again being right but the reason why it was so obvious was that I looked beyond the sound bites and the wishful thinking to what Starmer's actual record was. And incidentally there was no excuse for being taken in by Starmer's nonsense about 'antisemitism' either, except that Owen Jones too had not yet seen the light.

However let it not be said that Starmer didn’t provide us with a certain amusement. The man who proclaimed his honesty and integrity ended up taking over £100,000 in freebies. The highest of any MP. Lord Ali provided him and his wife with thousands of pounds of clothes. Even her knickers were paid for by the generous Ali.

Starmer declared himself a ‘Zionist (i.e. racist) without qualification.’ And he told LBC that Israel had the right to starve the Palestinians of Gaza and cut off water and fuel, before denying he said it.

Starmer was so right-wing that even the anti-Semitic Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, praised him.

Despite being a practiced liar Starmer was never very good at it. Indeed he was never very good at anything. His speeches were wooden, like a child trying too hard, with that squeaky voice which  told us he didn’t mean a word of it.

Starmer came to power via Labour Together as Paul Holden documented in The Fraud. He then rewarded the central players in the conspiracy, including Josh Simons and Morgan McSweeney. As soon as the heat became too much Simons abandoned him for Andy Burnham leaving Starmer high and dry. The irony is that Labour Together was anything but together.

Many people have commented on Starmer’s lack of personality or charisma. In a blog ‘Mogadon Man Assumes the Leadership of the Labour Party’ straight after he was elected Labour Leader I saw that Starmer’s personality was a reflection of his dishonesty.

To Starmer truth and lies were mere matters of convenience. All that mattered was choosing which was most beneficial. Starmer settled a libel action with Labour Party staff alleging ‘anti-Semitism’, even though they didn’t have a case, because he thought that that would ‘prove’ that Labour under Corbyn was anti-Semitic. The kind of trickery that lawyers regularly engage in.

Starmer’s lack of charisma was because he believed in nothing apart from his own personal advancement. Starmer was a human rights lawyer who didn’t believe in human rights.

It was no wonder that in his first speech as Labour leader all he could do was invent a story about his father. It was tedium magnified to listen to the same story about his toolmaker father who also owned the factory he worked in! Ironically Starmer’s dad was a Jeremy Corbyn supporter. He would have turned in his grave to see how his son turned out.

None of us know whether the rent boys who tried to set fire to Starmer’s house had something on him. Difficult as it is to imagine, there is clearly more to this story than meets the eye. And the one thing they were not is agents of Russia as the BBC tells us.

Still no one can say Starmer didn’t manage to achieve anything. He obtained the second highest Labour majority on the lowest vote for a majority government (34%), 6% less than Corbyn in 2017. Starmer even managed, as an incumbent Prime Minister, to secure a lower percentage of support in his own constituency in 2024 than in 2019. His majority was halved from 22,766 in 2019 to 11,572 in 2024.


Ironically this was because of the 7,312 votes of ex-ANC MP Andrew Feinstein, who besides being a Jewish anti-Zionist is, unlike Starmer principled.

However Starmer does have one achievement to his name. Starmer was the most hated and despised Prime Minister on record.

I won’t wish Starmer well in whatever new career he takes up because there are too many dead Palestinian children who might have lived but for him.

Contrary to the view of Mehdi Hassan in the interview with Owen Jones, I don't believe that Andy Burnham represents any fundamental change with Keir Starmer. He has already made his position clear that he doesn't believe there is a Genocide in Gaza.

It's not any surprise therefore that he has been given a warm welcome by the Israel Embassy front, Labour Friends of Israel. 

It is also reported that has had a blazing row with Starmer because he wants to increase 'Defence' i.e. War expenditure. If so we are  in for more of the same but with a smiling face .

I suspect that Burnham will have an equally short honeymoon to that which Starmer enjoyed or rather didn't enjoy. He supported the Iraq War and was a devoted Blairite. There is nothing left-wing about Burnham. His only virtue is not being Keir Starmer.

Tony Greenstein 

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19 May 2025

A Silent March on a Sunny Afternoon in Brighton & Hove Against Israel's Holocaust of Children in Gaza

As the Genocide & Starvation Continues Starmer and Our War Criminal Leaders Supply Israel with More Weapons While Corrupt Arab Rulers Welcome Trump

Brighton Nakba & Gaza Children's March 18.5.25

On Sunday Brighton & Hove PSC held a silent march of about 1,500 people through the streets of Brighton with white ribbons  representing Gaza's murdered children. People in Brighton warmly welcomed the march and the only dissent was from about 10 pathetic Zionists near the rallying point.  

One idiot held a sign saying 'Stop the Lies - There is no Occupation'. There is no arguing with someone who denies a military occupation  in Gaza and the West Bank. Presumably the thousands of soldiers in the West Bank manning checkpoints are merely on  holiday.

Little Ms Hitler - aka Victorial Bhogal
Zionist genocide deniers are no different from neo-Nazi holocaust deniers. Both deny that which they support. Present among the handful of Christian and Jewish fascists was Little Miss Hitler, Victoria Bhogal who, when she saw me immediately complained to a nearby policeman. Presumably she objected to me calling her 'Miss' rather than  'Ms'. I shall take note in future!

In the past 19 months we have seen the collapse and impotence of International Law as Israel has been given a free hand to perpetrate every form of atrocity in Gaza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HQYfsUAf3s

Starmer supports cutting off food

In Britain Keir Starmer has lived up to the response he gave to LBC at the start of the Genocide that ‘Israel does have that right’ in response to a question as to whether Israel had the right to deprive the Palestinians in Gaza of food, water, and all the other essentials of life.

The fact that he later denied having said what everyone could see with their own eyes proves even more clearly that lies come second nature to a man without personality or principle. As Starmer says, he is a ‘(racist) Zionist without qualification.’

Starmer should be in the Hague for Complicity in Gaza's Genocide - Andrew Feinstein

We now learn that the embargo on weapons to Israel was yet another lie as Starmer’s government supplied more weapons to Israel in the last 3 months of 2024 than the Tory government supplied for the four year period 2020-23.

Starmer - The Murder of 8,000 Muslim Men and Boys in Srebenica Was A Genocide

The deceit and dishonesty of Starmer and Lammy is demonstrated by their denial that there is a genocide taking place in Gaza. Starmer, who even argued at the International Court of Justice that Vukovar in 1991, where 260 Croat men were killed was a genocide and who has repeatedly said Srebenica in 1995 was a genocide when 8,000 people were killed denies that Gaza constitutes a genocide. In Gaza, hundreds of thousands have almost certainly been murdered, including countless thousands of children, yet to Starmer it is not a genocide but an act of ‘self defence’.

Why?  Because the British government is actively complicit in the genocide, supplying both weapons and intelligence via RAF flights over Gaza. What this proves is that we are ruled by amoral war criminals and liars who are no better than their Nazi counterparts 80 years ago who were hanged in 1946 after the Nuremberg trials.

Those who deny the genocide in Gaza are the same as those who deny the Nazi holocaust. Article II of the Genocide Convention is quite clear.

genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

Israel’s attack on the people of Gaza is clearly aimed at destroying, in whole or in part, the Palestinian people. The pretext is that the aim is to destroy Hamas. If Israel was only concerned with destroying Hamas why would it attack every hospital, university, school, mosque, home and church even?

The idea that the  Command and Control centres are situated in hospitals for example doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Why would Hamas place their HQs in indefensible hospitals rather than its tunnels? The fact that we haven’t seen one single photograph showing Hamas firing out of a hospital is proof that Israel’s allegations are lies.  Just like the lies about the murdered 15 Red Crescent workers.

Were the Hamas C&C centres placed in Gaza’s reservoirs? Even the BBC admits that ‘Hundreds of Gaza's water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed’.

What is obvious is that if you intend to build settlements in Gaza and ethnically cleanse its population then you need to destroy all civilian structures, especially hospitals.

It’s not as if Israel’s leaders have been coy about their objectives. At the very start of the genocide Israeli President, Yitzhak Herzog was quite clear that 

It's an entire nation out there that is responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved—it's not true. They could've risen up, fought against that evil regime

Herzog was the former leader of the Israeli Labor Party a party no less war-like than Prime Minister Netanyahu, who was equally clear when he invoked the ancient enemy Amalek. God had told the Hebrew tribes to

Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

The Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Nissim Vaturi called for Israel to ‘“wipe Gaza off the face of the earth,”.’ Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich complained that

We can’t, in the current global reality, manage a war. Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.

Smotrich was wrong. The leaders of the ‘free’ West have allowed genocide through the simple expedient of pretending it isn’t happening.

October 7th was the trigger, the pretext, to carry out the Zionists’ long planned ethnic cleansing of Palestine. What is happening now is the completion of the Nakba that took place in 1948.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4HGkh8FNWE

Hamas mass rape a ‘hoax’ and ‘fake news’, says University of Sydney professor

After October 7 the Israeli government engaged in atrocity propaganda designed to justify the genocide that followed. We had the 40 beheaded babies hoax when only 1 baby died, shot accidentally shot. Then there was the mass rapes hoax which the New York Times did its best to propagate with its article Screams Without Words.. One of the main investigators, Anat Schwartz, was found, in February 2024 to have liked incendiary posts on social media, including one calling to "turn the strip into a slaughterhouse".

tony greenstein on march!

That too soon unravelled when the Intercept published on February 28 an exposé building on claims by Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada and The Grayzone that there were inconsistencies in the story. The NYT itself was itself riven by doubts and its podcast The Daily withdrew an episode that was due to be shown.

It now turns out that there is not one case of alleged rape that will be  prosecuted. Southern District Prosecutor, Moran Gez, told YNet that:

Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to prove these crimes. In the end, we don’t have complainants. What was reported in the media compared to what will ultimately be established will look very different—either because the victims were murdered or because women who were raped are unwilling to come forward.

We reached out to women’s rights organizations and requested cooperation. They told us no one had contacted them. Some parents reached out to these organizations, asking what to do if something happened to their daughters, but they didn’t disclose the assaults.

In this area, I would temper expectations. I know the public is expecting action and understands the need to address the horrific sexual offenses and assaults that occurred, but the vast majority of these cases won’t meet the evidentiary threshold in court, and the criticism will ultimately fall on the prosecution—unjustly so.

Gez is a hard-line Zionist who advocates the death penalty for every Palestinian who participated in October 7th. She is convinced there were rapes yet by her own admission there were no complainants and no women’s rights organisation had been contacted by a woman claiming to have been raped. All she can do is speculate.

The allegations of mass rape, which were used to justify the genocide and the mass rape of Palestinians have, like the rest of Israel’s atrocity propaganda been shown to be bogus.

The claim that the 1,139 Israelis who died that day were the largest single massacre of Jews since the holocaust is also false. The largest killing of Jews took place between 1976 and 1982 in Argentina, a country that Israel supplied with weapons and military training. Up to 12% of the 30,000 who were murdered by the Junta were Jewish, despite Jews making up less than 1% of Argentina’s population. But because Israel was complicit in their murder this is not counted.

October 7th was indeed traumatic for Israel but not because it heralded a new holocaust. It was traumatic in the same way that slave and indigenous rebellions were traumatic. The trauma was not holocaust related but a consequence of the shock that was related to the settler colonial fear that the natives may one day rise up against them

Tony Greenstein

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4 May 2025

Israel’s Starvation of Gaza is no different from the Nazi Starvation of Jews in the Polish Ghettos – Zionism has learnt the lessons of the Holocaust very well

 DESPITE Preventing Food and Aid Entering Gaza Since March 2, Starmer Has Said Nothing & Done Nothing

Gaza: Two months since Israel's full blockade, aid work is on the verge of collapse • FRANCE 24

In August 2024 Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister and the Gauleiter in the West Bank complained that

 “No one in the world will allow us to starve 2 million people, even though it might be justified and moral in order to free the hostages.”

Smotrich was wrong though his mistake was understandable. Despite Western leaders condemning his remarks at the time, when Israel began its starvation siege on March 2nd, Western leaders fell silent. All their human rights talk proved hollow. Starmer, who is known as a human rights lawyer would be best called ‘an avoidance of human rights lawyer’.

At last a major newspaper spoke out about Israel's evil Nazi style starvation blockade - but it isn't the Guardian or Independent

Donald Trump threatened Gaza with ‘hell’ and death. But that pathetic humanoid Keir Starmer, who openly describes himself as a ‘Zionist (i.e. a racist] without qualification’ has said absolutely nothing.

Restricting food into Gaza has been an Israeli policy long before October 7. In 2006, after the elections which Hamas won, Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the then PM, Ehud Olmert, said that  'The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,'. Hunger pangs were supposed to encourage the Palestinians to force Hamas to change its attitude towards Israel or force them out of government.

The Zionist response to Louis Theroux's films on the settlers was to claim that only the worst Israelis were shown - but these are the people in power in Israel now

Conal Urquhart wrote in the Guardian in 2006 of

An empty watchtower overlooks a deserted road lined with rusting vehicle parts. The only traffic is a pregnant bitch and a mule and cart. This is Gaza's economic lifeline, the Karni crossing into Israel, which is supposed to handle 1,300 containers of merchandise and food per day in order to sustain 1.3 million people.

But nothing is entering or leaving Gaza, and now the funds to purchase what is available there are also drying up, bringing the dire situation of its people to a new and febrile crisis.

The article Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing by Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith and Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah is required reading.

Israel today is ruled by Jewish neo-Nazis. Indeed they are worse than neo-Nazis, they are Nazis. If you think this is an exaggeration take the statement of Likud MK Moshe Saada who proclaimed on Israel’s Channel 14 TV that starving Palestinians was "our obligation"  Singer, Kobi Peretz, said that we are "commanded" to annihilate [the Biblical arch-enemy] Amalek. "I don't pity any civilian in Gaza, young or old…I have not a shred of pity,"

Gideon Levy described the situation in Israel today:

The discourse has taken on neo-Nazi attributes. Boundaries have fallen and bloodletting has been legitimized....

The two of them, Saada and Peretz, are but minnows, but the pond is replete with such statements, with some people interested in highlighting them in order to pander to the opinion of the masses. A public figure in Europe, whether legislator or singer who uttered such statements would be labeled a neo-Nazi. His career would grind to a halt and from that day on he would be forever ostracized. In Israel, such statements sell newspapers.

One should call this phenomenon by name: This is incitement to genocide. To the credit of Saada and Peretz, one could say that they have taken off all masks and removed all filters. What used to be trash talk often found on social media has become standard media talk, raising questions such as who is for and who is still against genocide.

Yet in the West there is no acknowledgement that openly neo-Nazi politicians, Smotrich and Ben Gvir, have taken over the direction of Israel’s ‘war’ on Gaza. The pretence is still that Israel is some kind of democracy. Gvir is allowed to visit Trump in the United States as an honoured guest whilst international students opposed to genocide are kidnapped off the streets and deported. This is western democracy.

As part of their starvation strategy Israel declared UNWRA a ‘terrorist’ organisation’. This is the Zionists’ favourite trick. Whenever they don’t like an organisation they say it is ‘terrorist’. They never produce any evidence because there isn’t any but the United States rushes to cut off their funding.

Admiral Radikin is challenged over the RAF flights over Gaza. The Police do their best to shield him

Under the ‘change government’ 6 Palestinian charities such as ‘Defence of Children International – Palestine’ were banned because they were deemed ‘terrorist organisations’. What Israel resented was the searing criticism by DCI-Pal and other human rights organisations of Israel’s killing, abuse, torture and imprisonment of Palestinian children and others.

In January 2024 the Knesset approved an extension of emergency regulations that allowed the Israeli state to deny security prisoners, detained since October 7, the ability to meet with their lawyers. This allows the state to prevent prisoners meeting with lawyers for up to 180 days. This is a license to torture and a license to disappear i.e. murder people. These are not the laws of democratic states. Even the Red Cross is not allowed to enter Sdei Teiman torture centre where the most notorious rapes took place.

You get some idea of the nature of these fascist creatures from the statement of Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s Security Minister, who after his visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, called for the bombing of those few stores of food that remain in Gaza. He even claimed the support of Trump and senior Republicans for this reprehensible act. Although they denied it afterwards there is no doubt that the Republican scum approved of what Gvir proposed. and Senators like Tom Cotton have openly called for the extermination of the Palestinians.

Genocide is defined in the Genocide Convention as the intent to destroy a people, in whole or in part. Can anyone pretend that when 93% of housing, every university and nearly every hospital, school and UN facility has been destroyed, that Israel is guilty of genocide? Even the largest cemetery in Gaza, Al-Sharqiya, has been bulldozed and destroyed.

This is the legal and political context in which the starvation of 2 million people is being supported by the Western leaders. Those who still call Israel a democracy, like the Board of racist Deputies, are conniving in the same behaviour that was meted out to European Jews by the Nazis.

Owen Jones on Israel's Most GENOCIDAL Threat Yet - And Our Media Covers It Up

Owen Jones failed to compare Israel’s actions with Nazi collective punishment. Perhaps that’s in deference to the false Zionist claim that comparisons between Zionism and the Nazis are anti-Semitic.

The Nazi atrocities of Oradour-sur-Glane where 643 civilians and Lidice where approximately 340 people were murdered are famous yet Israel has committed dozens of such massacres.

Jones should take heart from Ruth Vleeschhouwer Falak and Veronika Cohen, two Israeli holocaust survivors who were part of the protests. Veronika said:

“I don’t think we can remember our suffering without acknowledging the suffering of Gaza, the deaths of tens of thousands of children, the starvation that’s going on this minute... It occupies the same place in my heart.”

“People here see Palestinians as the other... They have managed not to feel their pain and I find that incomprehensible. To me, when I read the stories of their suffering in Gaza, it blends completely into how I feel about the Holocaust.”

Cohen’s eyes filled with tears as she recalled seeing a recent photo of a young Palestinian boy whose arms had been blown off by Israeli missile strikes in Gaza. “The news story said that when he woke up from his operation, the first thing he did was turn to his mother, and he said: ‘how will I hug you now?’ To me, that’s a Holocaust story. And that’s why we are here: to try to awaken people to their pain in any way we can.”

Ruth Vleeschhouwer Falak, 89, who survived the Nazi-occupation of the Netherlands as a child, said she was standing there because “in the 1930s, if Germans had stood up loudly against the Nazi party, maybe they wouldn’t have been able to do what they did to us. Speaking up is not a choice for me.”

“The saying is never again; that means never again for anybody. That’s really what we’re standing here for,” added Ilana Drukker Tokotin, 87, who spent her childhood in hiding from the Nazis.    

Starmer had no hesitation in describing the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebenica as a genocide yet when it comes to the deliberate murder of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians, over 20,000 of whom are children, this ‘human rights’ lawyer remains silent.

The use of starvation as a tactic of modern warfare didn’t begin with Israel. The prime exponent of starvation as a weapon of war was by the Nazis. Millions of Russians and other conquered peoples were literally starved to death. In the Warsaw Ghetto 83,000 people starved to death. In the Lodz Ghetto 45,000 starved to death. In Poland over 300,000 Jews starved to death. That is where Israel's starvation strategy derives from.

With Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941, the Nazis were explicit about their intention to starve to death the population of the areas they conquered.

William Shirer recounts in The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich (p.768) that Goering told the Italian Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano in October 1941:

This year between twenty and thirty million persons will die of hunger in Russia. Perhaps it is well that it should be so, for certain nations must be decimated.

Hans Frank, the Governor of the General Government, the part of Poland that was not annexed to Germany, wrote about a Cabinet meeting in Cracow on 24 August 1942 where he remarked that ‘we sentence 1.2 million Jews to die of hunger should be noted only marginally." See Hitler’s Hunger Plan

Hans Frank was hanged at Nuremberg in October 1946 for war crimes and crimes against humanity

The deliberate starvation of a population is a war crime and evidence of an intention to commit genocide. It was explicitly banned in 1977 by Protocol I and Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions and criminalised by the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court. It is compounded by the fact that Israel’s presence in Gaza is illegal.

One wonders where the Zionist holocaust organisations stand since they are always telling us to ‘learn the lessons of the Holocaust’. The Holocaust Educational Trust and its Chief Executive Karen Pollock have not only refused to condemn Israel’s Nazi-style genocide but have actually justified it.

there has been a ‘drip feed of condemnatory comments from Pollock.... The gist of the criticism has been that the Holocaust in unique and comparing it with other genocides is highly disrespectful;  further that comparing it to the genocide of Palestinians in the current time is a form of antisemitism.  

The hypocritical cant that the IHRA advertises itself with - to this Zionist body a world without genocide means denying a genocide that is happening - they are Holocaust Deniers!

Karen Pollock is nothing more than a Zionist attack dog with fewer brains than the average pitbull. It is best to turn to the organ grinder rather than the Zionist monkey and so I wrote to the Secretariat of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. I offered to share any response they made with my readers, bearing in mind that previous emails from me to them about the creation of the IHRA have met with no response!

My Open Letter to the IHRA - I somehow doubt they will respond!

The institution which was set up in 1953 by Israel, Yad Vashem, has remained completely silent. That is because Yad Vashem is a state organisation whose sole reason to exist is to use the Holocaust for Zionist propaganda purposes. 

In the words of Daniel Blatman, an Israeli holocaust scholar, Yad Vashem is a 'diplomatic laundromat for every fascist and anti-Semite who darkens its doors.' There have been a lot of them – Trump,  Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Duterte and assorted neo-Nazis from Germany and Austria.

Israel Shahak, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Bergen-Belsen  wrote

Of the Yad Vashem… theatre, I do not wish to speak, at all. It, and its vile exploiting, such as honouring South Africa collaborators with the Nazis, are truly beneath contempt. 

As I wrote in a previous blog When 50 holocaust researchers asked Yad Vashem to condemn the genocidal statements made by Israeli politicians, military and other public figures, its Chair Dani Dayan refused.

Dayan denied that Israel’s army was conducting a genocide. It was acting ‘within the constraints Hamas imposes on us to comply with the proper moral standards and the laws of war.’

Dayan was Secretary-General of the fascist anti-Arab Tehiya party, and a candidate to the Knesset on its list in the Israeli legislative elections in 1988 and 1992. 

Dayan was also on the Executive of the settler Yesha Council, for West Bank settlers. In 2015 Brazil rejected him as Israel’s nomination as Ambassador because of his fascist credentials. Dani Dayan is an excellent choice to run Yad Vashem!

Support for the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals, universities and extermination of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are what passes for ‘proper moral standards’ at Yad Vashem.


It is not only Yad Vashem or Starmer that have refused to say anything about Israel’s starvation of Gaza. The Biden Administration consistently supported the Genocide. Mondoweiss has just published an article about how the White House lied about its attempts to secure a ceasefire.

Falsifying reports to Congress

In February 2024, the White House issued a memo, NSM-20, which ordered the State and Defense Departments to report to Congress on any country engaged in conflict that was receiving military support from the US. The reports were to confirm that U.S. law was being upheld, and that American arms were not being used in violation of human rights or international law.

In May, the report, as it related to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was due. When the report was finally submitted, much to the shock of Stacy Gilbert, a twenty-year State Department lawyer, who resigned as a result of it.

The NSM-20 report stated not only that there was “insufficient evidence” linking U.S. arms to specific human rights violations but that the State Department did not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of US humanitarian assistance (in Gaza)

This was a blatant lie. Gilbert told Hamakor that the report was “shocking in its mendacity,” adding: “Everyone knows that is not true.” When she resigned she said,

“There is consensus among the humanitarian community on [Israel obstructing aid into Gaza]. It is absolutely the opinion of the humanitarian subject matter experts in the State Department, and not just in my bureau – people who look at this from the intelligence community and from other bureaus. I would be very hard pressed to think of anyone who has said [Israeli obstruction] is not an issue. That’s why I object to that report saying that Israel is not blocking humanitarian assistance. That is patently false.”

It is difficult to envisage any human rights violations by Israel that would today meet with an embargo of arms by the U.S. and Britain such as occurred during the Lebanon war of 1982 by both the Thatcher and Reagan administrations.

We are led by war criminals. Starmer and Trump, like Biden and Scholtz before them, deserve to be arraigned at a Nuremberg war crimes style tribunal and to suffer the ultimate penalty that the Nazi war criminals suffered. Of course they won’t because war crimes have been the staple of British and American imperialism throughout the past century and more.

There are those, like David Miller, who attribute Britain’s Zionist policy to ‘infiltrators’ and ‘soldiers of Zion’ who have penetrated government institutions which would otherwise have adopted peace and love between nations as their policies.

However to those who are not living in a theoretical haze we have to acknowledge that in the history of imperialism there is nothing new in Gaza other than the fact that Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing is being carried out in full view of the world.

Irish KC Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh presenting South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice

Never has the hypocrisy of our war criminal leaders been so clearl and transparent. International law has been shown to be a paper tiger, the ICJ a toothless poodle. It found Israel had committed ‘plausible genocide’ 16 months ago and yet it has still not reached a verdict. Recently it gave Israel a 6 months extension to respond to South Africa’s case despite having ignored their injunction not to enter Rafah.

I suspect that if Israel were to use gas chambers in Gaza Starmer and Trump would deny that was genocidal as they have to Israel’s exterminationism to date.  Within the Israeli state the vast majority of Jewish citizens support Israel’s genocidal war and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Tony Greenstein

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