UK: Labour Party Defines Israel as ‘Apartheid State’

The UK’s Labour Party is infamous for being antisemitic, and even worse, for enabling the Palestinian jihad against the Jewish State.

Now the party is employing heightened measures to demonize and delegitimize Israel. The Labour Party quoted “human rights” groups in its motion — groups that fail to stand up for the multitudes of victims of jihad and Sharia oppression. They serve as little more than “progressive” useful idiots who are frequently summoned, as “leading voices in human rights,” to beat down anyone who disagrees with them.

Note how these “human rights” groups never condemn the Pay For Slay program or the jihadist ambition to obliterate Israel “from the River to the Sea.”

It says it all that a former leader of the Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn (who identifies as Socialist), was saluted by Hamas — which articulated its “great respect and appreciation” for Corbyn and thanked him for supporting Palestinians.

The new Labor Party motion to label Israel an “apartheid” state and impose sanctions drew the attention of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. He “welcomed the motion, saying that it sends a strong message to Israel.”

“UK Labour party passes motion that defines Israel as ‘apartheid state,’” by Ariella Matsden, Jerusalem Post, September 29, 2021:

The UK Labour Party passed a motion in their annual Brighton conference to define Israel as an apartheid state and impose sanctions against Israel as a result, the Independent reported on Tuesday.

The motion further demanded actions against “the building of settlements, reverse any annexation and ends the occupation of the West Bank and the Blockade of Gaza.”

Human rights groups were quoted in the motion as “concluding unequivocally that Israel is practicing the crime of apartheid as defined by the UN.”

Not all the party members supported the motion. The shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, distanced herself from the motion, telling the Independent that Labour must follow a “fair and balanced approach”, while Labour leader Kier Starmer reportedly clashed with the members who supported the motion.

Nandy is the former chair of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East, and in February 2020 she was backed by the Jewish Labour Movement to become the new party leader.

“There can only be a lasting peace through a safe and secure Israel existing alongside a sovereign and viable Palestinian state,” Nandy told the Independent. “Therefore we cannot support this motion. It does not address the issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a comprehensive or balanced way.”

According to the Middle East Monitor, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the motion, saying that it sends a strong message to Israel.

The motion came after a Jewish former member of the party, Dame Louise Ellman, rejoined the party.

Ellman had previously left the party in protest while it was led by Jeremy Corbyn and facing an antisemitism scandal…

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/10/uk-labour-party-passes-motion-to-define-israel-as-apartheid-state-impose-sanctions