Never again is never again for anyone: Britain’s role in the genocide in Gaza
A protest in London calling for a ceasefire in Gaza
Haim Bresheeth-Žabner writes in The Palestine Chronicle on 2 June 2025:
Ever since October 7, 2023, Britain is being perceived and described abroad as the epicentre of opposition to the terrifying Israeli genocide. This may be understandable and superficially correct.
London has certainly furnished the largest protest marches in the West, some with more than a million participants. The number of action groups, political organisations, online and in-person meetings and local protest marches is indeed astounding and without precedent. It seems that the UK population got the message and is now relaying it efficiently and with great commitment.
After 77 weeks of genocide, the protest is not slowing down – the march on Saturday, May 17, was one of the largest and passed without a single violent incident – a popular festival of sharing the pain, but also the solidarity with Gaza and its hounded, starving millions. The Joint decalkaration by the UK, Canada and France does not change this situation – no international sanctions of any kind were ever applied to Israel, and Britain continues to supply the genocidal IDF.
In the case of South African Apartheid, the UN General Assembly suspended the regime from the UNGA in 1974; this marked the beginning of the long campaign that has brought an end to the Apartheid state. It seems that Israel is the only nation immune from international law, safe in the knowledge that the West has its back.
But unfortunately, the truth is much more complex, and less promising. Anyone partaking in the protest will tell you that the main participants in these marches have been Palestinians, UK Muslims, and elderly left-wing Jews, all of whom appear each time, without fail.
The UK population of around 70 million seems to be very efficiently controlled by the state and its machineries of ideological influence – dubbed the ‘weapons of mass distraction’, led by PM Keir Starmer, famously declaring himself a Zionist and a supporter of the IDF genocidal mission in Gaza, echoing the Octpber 2023 Israeli Hasbara memes in Parliament: “The brutal attack in Israel just over two weeks ago was the darkest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust.”
Ever since Labour came to power, the number and nature of arrests of protestors, especially of Jewish and Palestinian activists against the Israeli crimes, have rocketed. Members of both groups are some 50 times more likely to be arrested than the general Brit, arguably proving their racist targeting, while Jews supporting Israeli crimes are most unlikely to be arrested, even when they choose to ignore the law.