UK Labour leader lobbied strongly for total Israel support – Corbyn
Kennard asked Corbyn whether he was shocked by the level of support that Starmer and other senior Labour figures had offered to Israel in its ongoing military campaign in Gaza. He said he was not surprised “because I know where many of these people are coming from.”
“During one extremely hostile meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party Committee, they confronted me and said: ‘Will you give a blanket undertaking that you as party leader and potentially prime minister will automatically support any military action Israel undertakes?’ And I said no,” he recalled.
The pressure that the Israeli government exerts on the party “is huge,” according to Corbyn, as is the influence of the pro-Israel lobby on British politics in general.
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