“It was the flag that went to battle against Hitler’s racism,” Lammy wrote. “I’ve always felt abandoning it to racists was a betrayal of its anti-fascist heritage."
Lammy's flag is that of a state that's complicit in the fascist apartheid racist genocidal land-grabbing Israeli genocide in #Gaza.
The [US] State Department recently approved the transfer of 1,800 MK-84 2,000lb (907kg) bombs to Israel, with the decision reportedly coming on the day of the WCK strike [sic]."
The Guardian: "Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza."
"In my letter... I called upon the UK Government to ban the license of arms exports from the UK to Israel, given the risk of increasing bloodshed caused by Israel’s threat to carry out a ground offensive into Rafah.
“I note that I have yet to receive a response and you have taken no such action, despite the death-toll continuing to increase."
Letter from Humza Yousaf to Rishi Sunak today.
(Ignoring letters from First Ministers is an integral part of the British government's "respect agenda".)
"In my letter to you of 23 February, I called upon the UK Government to ban the license of arms exports from the UK to Israel, given the risk of increasing bloodshed caused by Israel’s threat to carry out a ground offensive into Rafah. I note that I have yet to receive a response and you have taken no such action, despite the death-toll continuing to increase."
“The Foreign Office has received official legal advice that Israel has broken international humanitarian law but the [UK] Government has not announced it."
“They have not said [Israel has broken international humanitarian law], they haven’t stopped arms exports."
The US State Department has acknowledged famine is "already probably present in at least some areas of northern Gaza, while other areas are in danger of falling into conditions of starvation."
That bring the case, why the f*ck are they still supplying the Israelis with weapons?
(This Guardian report makes no reference to recent arms sales, which is frankly shameful.)
"The UK foreign secretary has made a series of lethal mistakes, fuelling a genocide against the Palestinian people."
"Cameron now faces the very real prospect of going down in history as the British foreign secretary who gave the green light to Israeli genocide in Gaza."
“The [UK] Government has continued to export arms to Israel without pause, despite the ICJ ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide.
“For almost five months, ministers have evaded MPs’ questions and misled parliament regarding reviews of arms export licences to Israel. The lack of parliamentary scrutiny of arms exports is one of the key factors in allowing this unconscionable situation to continue.”