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]
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]
How Starmer gained power
Let us be clear, he was nothing more than an empty suit in power through circumstance and an iron fist.
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 2024 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 low approval rating. [8]
Purging dissent within Labour
After being elected as Prime Minister, Starmer subsequently backtracked on a lot of policies 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 when Labour got into power that the two-child benefit cap — which has led hundreds of thousands of children to poverty — would be scrapped, only to be 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, Starmer 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 Labour Prime Minister before him. Compared to Tony Blair, who was in power for 10 years, he 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, saying, “Israel has the right to defend herself” rather than criticising Israeli war crimes.
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 in northern Gaza to move down south. [14] [16]
When, finally, the vote came to Parliament in November of 2023 to support an immediate ceasefire, Starmer refused to back it, facing rebellion from dozens of Labour MPs, including ten of his frontbenchers. As a result, the frontbenchers were either removed or resigned from the cabinet and 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, making it seem as though the Labour Party wanted an immediate ceasefire but omitting the term “immediate” and replacing it with “sustainable” due to Starmer’s reluctance to support the end of the Israeli genocide.
On 18 February 2024, more than four months after the genocide 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. Although Starmer made the call, he didn’t act. [18]
When Starmer misled Labour, Parliament, & country
On 21 February 2024 — three days after Starmer 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 the speaker Lindsey Hoyle to accept Labour’s amendment. The amendment got approval without a vote. [19]
The Labour amendment had changed the wording of the bill, removed the words “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. [21]
The Commons Speaker Lindsey Hoyle, who approved the amendment after being lobbied by Starmer, later said he regretted making the decision.
Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, 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 also called Labour’s ceasefire call “conditional and caveated,” claiming it gave “cover” for Israel to continue the conflict. [22] [23]
There have been many moments of prime ministers misleading parliament and thus having to bear the consequence; for example, in December 2021 parliaments investigative committee had found that former 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, whereby he claimed that Saddam Hussein and Iraq had nuclear weapons when there were none. [25]
Both prime ministers were forced to resign due to misleading parliament, but Kier Starmer’s malicious misleading of parliament 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 and had gone relatively unnoticed due to the nation’s mainstream media’s silence on the matter. The same mainstream media who have whitewashed the genocide in Gaza by avoiding the word genocide, massacre and slaughter to describe Palestinians killed at the hands of the Israelis. [26]
Heavy Zionist lobbying and Epstein connection
Documents and leaks show that between 2017 and 2020, Morgan McSweeney, Kier Starmer’s former chief of staff, oversaw Labour Together, a factional project that secretly accepted more than £730,000 in undeclared donations, allegedly in breach of electoral law. Much of this money is said to have come from Trevor Chinn, a figure whose involvement in Labour politics has for decades been bound up 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 bankrolled both Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel throughout his career, two Zionist groups with heavy connections with Israel. In early 2025, he was awarded the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honour by President Isaac Herzog.
Labour Together is a think tank that was closely associated with the right wing of the Labour Party and was initially said to have been made to bridge its different factions before suddenly switching its focus to opposing the leadership of former left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn and later supporting Keir Starmer in the 2020 party leadership election.
Rachel Reeves received donations from three Labour Together funders: David Sainsbury, Clive Hollick, and Trevor Chinn and was also bankrolled by Labour Together directly. A current Labour Together board member, Jonathan Kestenbaum, had also reportedly served in the Israeli occupation forces.
Morgan McSweeney was the key architect and director of Labour Together and created it to try and remove Jeremy Corbyn and pull Labour away from the left. [28] [29] McSweeney worked closely with the Zionist Jewish Labour movement to try and bring an end to the left by weaponising antisemitism through amplifying the antisemitism issue in the Labour Party beyond its scale. [30] McSweeney led Starmer’s 2020 Labour leadership campaign by being his campaign director and then later was made chief of staff, making him the most senior advisor to the Labour Party. He only resigned recently on February 8 after backlash over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US, a man pictured in the Epstein files with underwear next to what seemingly looks like an underage female. [31] [32]
All in all, it seems as though Starmer’s close associates had strong connections with powerful Zionist and pro-Israeli figures who may well have moulded the party’s foreign policy in favour of Israel and thus moulded the countries foreign policy to be staunchly supporting Israel, even more then it was before.
Manipulative resignation
During 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.” [33]
He then hugged his wife in front of the cameras.
This last desperate attempt to seek human sympathy with this scripted speech and a wife set up to be hugged in front of cameras is not to be deceived, 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. [34]
Starmer also was responsible for more than 200 surveillance flights over Gaza using the British RAF to feed intelligence to Israel, emboldening, supporting, and even justifying a continuation of the genocide. [35]
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. [36]
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… Whether 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,
Whoever goes to the gates of the ruler will be afflicted with trials.” [37]
Source: Islam21c
Notes
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/22/keir-starmers-resignation-speech-the-six-key-takeaways
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2026/england/results
[3] https://electoral-reform.org.uk/how-would-each-party-have-done-if-mays-elections-were-across-all-of-britain/
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/19/andy-burnham-wins-makerfield-byelection-paving-way-labour-leadership-challenge
[5] https://electoral-reform.org.uk/how-many-votes-did-labour-get-in-2024/
[6] https://www.statsjamie.co.uk/p/power-without-popularity-starmer
[7] https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/politics/how-anti-incumbency-and-first-past-post-system-helped-elect
[8] https://jacobin.com/2024/07/uk-elections-tory-party-conservatives-defeat-labour
[9] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/world/europe/uk-starmer-welfare-reversal.html
[10] https://www.polimonitor.com/blog/the-starmer-sanction-a-chronicle-of-rebellion-and-whip-removal
[11] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/17/keir-starmer-labour-party-suspensions-tony-blair
[12] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/25/uk-s-keir-starmer-carries-on-purge-of-labour-party-s-left-wing_6697678_4.html
[13] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/30/purge-of-labour-leftwingers-must-end-keir-starmer-told
[14] https://imeu.org/resources/resources/fact-sheet-israels-genocide-in-gaza/446
[15] https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/sir-keir-starmer-hamas-terrorism-israel-defend-itself-DWzhBf_2/
[16] https://youtu.be/Euhs4pe8Lm8
[17] https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1166998
[18] https://www.thetimes.com/comment/article/david-cameron-gaza-ceasefire-israel-palestine-war-s50x2kscw
[19] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68331322
[20] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-labour-gaza-snp-vote-commons-b2499952.html
[21] https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-the-lindsay-hoyle-gaza-ceasefire-vote-row-between-snp-conservatives-and-labour-explained
[22] https://www.newarab.com/news/britons-back-immediate-ceasefire-gaza-war-new-poll-shows
[23] https://labourlist.org/2024/02/snp-ceasefire-motion-vote-full-list-of-mps-backing-labour-amendment-so-far/
[24] https://x.com/PeoplesMomentum/status/1759957294400299387
[25] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59952395
[26] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/feb/02/clare-short-warned-tony-blair
[27] https://novaramedia.com/2024/08/01/we-ran-the-numbers-heres-how-britains-progressive-newspapers-have-covered-gaza/
[28] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250926-how-pro-israel-money-captured-starmers-labour/
[29] https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09630980/officers
[30] https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/preparing-for-power/2024/05/what-does-labour-together-want-mcsweeney-starmer
[31] https://www.declassifieduk.org/morgan-mcsweeney-plot-without-precedent-in-labour-history/
[32] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r1xp7j533o
[33] https://news.sky.com/video/photograph-of-mandelson-in-underwear-was-taken-in-epsteins-paris-flat-sky-news-analysis-finds-13502279
[34] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cj3gll2y85do
[35] https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-06-02/debates/FB92D222-847B-432A-AE59-164433E63AC9/ArmsAndMilitaryCargoExportControlsIsrael
[36] https://aoav.org.uk/2025/britain-sent-over-500-spy-flights-to-gaza-aoav-study-reveals-the-scale-of-british-intelligence-gathering-above-gaza-raising-fears-of-complicity-in-israeli-war-crimes/
[37] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5wel11pgdo
[38] Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2256
