Keir Starmer weaponised Gaza to reshape Labour

Britain’s mafia-esque, deeply unpopular Prime Minister Kier Starmer is set to leave office after announcing his resignation last Monday. [1]

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Empty suit in power through circumstance and iron fist How Starmer gained power Purging dissent within Labour Weaponisation of Gaza to create right-wing loyalty When Starmer misled Labour, Parliament, & country Past examples of Johnson & Blair Heavy Zionist lobbying and Epstein connection The Labour Together network Questions around Starmer’s inner circle Manipulative resignation Lesson for Muslims

This comes after a bitter defeat in May’s local elections, where Labour lost 450 local seats and 1,000 local councillors, with Britain’s far-right Reform party gaining 1,452. [2]

In terms of raw vote share, this was the first election in which Labour didn’t make the top two, with Reform leading and the Greens following. [3]

Earlier this month, Starmer was also seriously weakened by the return of Andy Burnham — Mayor of Greater Manchester and former Labour minister under Gordon Brown — to Parliament. Burnham has made no secret of his desire to oust Starmer at No. 10. [4]

Empty suit in power through circumstance and iron fist

How Starmer gained power

During the 2024 general election that propelled Starmer to Downing Street, he received ⅔ of the seats in Parliament (a supermajority) but only ⅓ of the vote, a lower number than his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 and three million lower than Corbyn’s run in 2017. This was the most disproportionate general election result ever, thanks to the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system that the UK religiously holds on to. [5] [6] [7]

At the same time, the Conservative government had been going through an unprecedented phase of unpopularity, ultimately performing the worst in its history in the vote, with Reform still too new to suck up the right-wing vacuum. A divided and weakened right propelled Labour to a strong position in Parliament despite their low share of the vote and Starmer’s even lower approval rating. [8]

Purging dissent within Labour

After being installed as Prime Minister, Starmer subsequently backtracked on a lot of policy pledges while seemingly betraying the grassroots voters who voted him in. [9]

In contrast, during their time in opposition, Labour were very vocal on child poverty, and there was expectation that the two-child benefit cap — which has led hundreds of thousands of children into poverty — would be scrapped. However, this was followed by the suspension of seven of his MPs who voted for the cap to be lifted! [9]

There were many policies Starmer had backtracked on, but unlike previous Labour leaders, he would suspend Members of Parliament from his political party if they voted against his policies, more so than others. [10]

During Starmer’s premiership as Labour leader and Prime Minister, he suspended 23 MPs from his party, more so than any other Labour leader or Prime Minister before him. In comparison, Tony Blair, who was in power for ten years, suspended four MPs. [11]

Starmer also had a habit of suspending MPs permanently, with many speculating an attempt to purge the Labour left, with key figures such as former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, and Zara Sultana permanently removed. [12]

He also prevented multiple left-wing candidates from standing as Members of Parliament under Labour, even when he portrayed himself as a left-wing figure to become Labour leader in the first place! [13]

Weaponisation of Gaza to create right-wing loyalty

After the (renewed) genocide in Gaza began on 7 October 2023, Keir Starmer, who was then Leader of the Opposition, defended Israel’s actions on numerous occasions.

Rather than criticising Israeli war crimes, in his words he felt,

Israel has the right to defend herself”. [14]

And when asked by LBC host Nick Ferrari, if Israel has the right to besiege Gaza — including cutting off power and water — he confidently said,

I think that Israel does have that right.” [14]

For three months of the genocide, Labour had refused to call for a ceasefire. Instead, they sought “humanitarian pauses”, essentially assisting the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza by giving time for people there to move south. [15] [16]

When, finally, the vote came to Parliament in November of 2023 to support an immediate ceasefire, Starmer refused to back it. He faced rebellion from dozens of Labour MPs, including ten of his frontbenchers, but these cabinet colleagues were either removed, resigned, or replaced with loyalists.

It was only in December 2023, after David Cameron (former Conservative Prime Minister and then Foreign Secretary) published a Sunday Times op-ed explicitly backing a “sustainable ceasefire” in Gaza — while also making clear he did not support calling for an immediate ceasefire “right now” — that Starmer shifted Labour’s policy from supporting no ceasefire to supporting a “sustainable ceasefire”. [17]

Redemption? Not at all, rather a malicious attempt at trying to win back Labour voters without supporting what most of the country truly wanted: an immediate ceasefire. It made it seem as though Labour wanted an immediate ceasefire but all they really did was omit the term “immediate” and replace it with “sustainable”, due to Starmer’s reluctance to support the end to the genocide.

On 18 February 2024, more than four months after the genocide on steroids in Gaza began and had already taken more than 30,000 lives and displaced 75 per cent of the population, Starmer called for an immediate ceasefire. But this was only after pressure from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar. [18]

When Starmer misled Labour, Parliament, & country

Although Starmer made the call, he didn’t act.

On 21 February 2024 — three days after he reluctantly shifted the Labour position to support an immediate ceasefire — the Scottish National Party (SNP) tabled a non-binding motion in Parliament calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the end of collective punishment.

It was expected that Starmer would back the bill; rather, he opposed it. Fearing a massive backbench rebellion within his own party, he lobbied Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to accept Labour’s amendment. It was approved without a vote. [19]

The Labour amendment had changed the wording of the bill, removed the phrase “collective punishment”, and included a caveat saying,

Israel cannot be expected to cease fighting if Hamas continues with violence.”

In other words, this meant Israel had no need to engage in a ceasefire if they continued to fight Hamas. [20]

This manipulative wording had convinced many that Labour was supportive of an immediate ceasefire when in reality it was based on conditions. Way back in December 2023, a YouGov poll found that 71 per cent of Brits were in favour of an immediate ceasefire — this was something that the Labour amendment didn’t create space for. Hoyle later said he regretted making the decision to allow the amendment. [21]

Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), regarding the Labour amendment, said that the union expected Labour MPs to fight for “peace and justice” and back the SNP motion as “the only motion which calls for an immediate ceasefire without caveats.” Momentum had also called Labour’s ceasefire call “conditional and caveated”, claiming it gave “cover” for Israel to continue the conflict. [22] [23]

Past examples of Johnson & Blair

There have been many instances of Prime Ministers misleading Parliament and thus having to bear the consequence. For example, in December 2021 Parliament’s investigative committee found that then Prime Minister Boris Johnson had misled Parliament by having parties during lockdown, breaking rules, and later denying what he did. [24]

Tony Blair also was accused of misleading Parliament with the Iraq War; he had adamantly claimed that Saddam Hussein and Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) when there were none. [25]

Both Blair and Starmer were forced to resign due to misleading Parliament, but the latter’s maliciousness through amending and rewording a motion for a ceasefire before it was even voted on had not just misled his political party and Parliament, but the whole country.

This sneaky rewording had gone relatively unnoticed due to the mainstream media’s silence on the matter. The same mainstream media who have whitewashed the Gaza genocide by avoiding the words “genocide”, “massacre”, and “slaughter” to describe Palestinians killed at the hands of the Israelis. [26]

Heavy Zionist lobbying and Epstein connection

The Labour Together network

Documents and leaks show that between 2017- 20, Morgan McSweeney — the man behind Starmer’s party leadership win in 2020, Labour’s 2024 general election win, and recently Downing Street Chief of Staff — oversaw Labour Together, a project that secretly accepted more than £730,000 in undeclared donations, allegedly in breach of electoral law.

Much of this is said to have come from Trevor Chinn, a man whose involvement in Labour has for decades been tied with the defence of Israel and the advancement of Zionist networks inside the party. [27]

Chinn was director of Labour Together until 2024 and has bank-rolled both Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel (CFI and LFI respectively) throughout his career, the pair having heavy pro-Zionism connections. In early 2025, he was awarded the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honour by Isaac Herzog.

Rebranded as ThinkLabour in 2026, the entity was (and likely still is) a think tank closely associated with the right of the party. Yes, it was initially said to have been made to bridge the party’s different factions, but it suddenly switched focus to opposing the leadership of former left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn and later supporting Keir Starmer in the 2020 party leadership election. Also of no surprise, a recent Labour Together board member, Jonathan Kestenbaum, served in the Israeli occupation forces. [28]

Questions around Starmer’s inner circle

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has received donations from three Labour Together funders: David Sainsbury, Clive Hollick, and the aforementioned Chinn. She was also bank-rolled by Labour Together directly.

As for Morgan McSweeney, he worked closely with the Zionist Jewish Labour movement to try and bring an end to the left by weaponising anti-Semitism. How? Through amplifying the level of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party beyond its scale. [29] The most senior advisor to the Labour Party (as Downing Street Chief of Staff), he only resigned on 8 February 2026 owing to backlash over the appointment of the disgraced Peter Mandelson as UK Ambassador to the US. Mandelson was pictured in his underwear in photographs linked to the Epstein files, alongside what appeared to be an underage female. [30] [31]

All in all, it appears that Starmer’s close associates had strong connections with influential Zionist and pro-Israel figures who may well have shaped the party’s foreign policy in Israel’s favour and, in turn, steered the country’s foreign policy towards an even more pro-Israel position.

Manipulative resignation

At the end of Starmer’s resignation speech last Monday, he said,

…And when I leave the biggest job in the country, I shall spend more time on the most important job, being the best husband I can to my fantastic wife, Vic, who has been a rock by my side through good times and bad, and being the best dad I can to my beautiful children, who are my pride and my joy.” [32]

He then hugged his wife in front of the cameras.

This last desperate attempt to seek human sympathy with a scripted speech and a wife set up to be hugged in front of cameras is not to be entertained, for Starmer was responsible for at least 14 weapons shipments to Israel during his premiership and approved more weapons licences to Israel in the first few months of power than the previous Conservative government did in four years! [33]

Starmer was also responsible for more than 200 RAF surveillance flights over Gaza that fed intelligence to Israel — emboldening, supporting, and even justifying a continuation of the genocide. [34]

Most of those killed in Gaza are women and children and Starmer has played a more complicit role than most other European countries. Thus, any attempt to seek sympathy should be resisted promptly. [35]

Lesson for Muslims

It’s important the Muslim community is not fooled into becoming sympathetic and chivalrous when it comes to speaking about the end of a leader’s reign, particularly one who promoted genocide. We should instead highlight the deep corruption, causes of corruption, and political manipulation used to install the leader that assisted in killing children who look like our children!

It may be that a family member or friend — whether of your generation or the next — becomes involved in politics at one point in their life… At home or abroad, it is good for people to know what they could be up against and what they could potentially fall into.

The Prophet ﷺ is reported to have said,