The links between lefty outfit Hope Not Hate and the Labour government are increasingly being called into question after Starmer’s latest reshuffle, which saw acolytes of the organisation promoted to senior ministerial roles. The group’s long-term comrades are now in high office…
The group called for the incoming government to “engage with the pro-Palestine movement as a legitimate form of democratic participation and protest,” complaining that pro-Palestinian street protests had been “villainised.” It said that: “long-term democratic backsliding as well as targeted curbing of dissent from British Muslim communities in particular has played a huge role in the demonisation of their participation in the pro-Palestine ‘mob’. The Government must…actively support and engage with [the protests] as a form of legitimate opposition that has a rightful place within the norms of a healthy democracy.” A view massively at odds with reality, as popular outrage about the actions of Pro-Palestine hate marches led for widespread calls for them to be disbanded…
Last year the group said: “It is clear that [the government] are not only grossly negligent in enacting solutions, but are part of the problem. The conflict in Israel and Palestine has become another pawn they can play to draw in the most extreme fringes of their support base, revitalising Islamophobia tropes to feed a culture war that they think will win them an election, all at the expense of the safety and wellbeing of British Muslims.” Yikes…