Keir Starmer just put Israel before Britain AGAIN.

Right, so Keir Starmer, that Zionist without qualification has once more been caught out in a grossly underreported story, choosing to put Israel before the international reputation of the UK, but this time it is in the most petulant and pathetic way, truly childish to my mind, churlish certainly, an unnecessary move on his part that is deservedly inviting criticism from those who are aware of it, so I’m making you aware of it now too, because it is literally happening today 8th of August, though thinking about it, it’ll probably be over by the time this video gets published, but such is the way these things often work out when you cover current affairs.
Anyway, tomorrow, the 9th August, will be the 79th Anniversary of the bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, and each year a Peace Ceremony is held there, where dignitaries from around the world are invited to attend an event of remembrance. However, given the atrocities being committed by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank, and on several other fronts at this point as well, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, has been disinvited from attending the ceremony, while Palestine was offered an invite in their place. So instead of showing solidarity at a time of solemn remembrance to a fellow member of the G7, the UK, and others shamefully as well, have chosen instead to show solidarity to a genocidal apartheid state and boycott the event.
Right, so you’d imagine Keir Starmer has got bigger issues to deal with right now than boycotting a civic event of remembrance, of embracing peace following one of the worst atrocities of World War II, the atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all the riots across the UK that he’s mainly been hiding away from, the fact his polling is falling faster than a Japanese bullet train following policy announcements that nail on the warnings he was just another Tory in waiting, with more George Osborne style austerity to come, but he’s always got time for Israel it seems even now, as the UK’s ambassador will not be attending the Nagasaki Peace Ceremony, taking place today, because Israel got disinvited and Palestine invited in their place.
The Nagasaki Peace Ceremony is a remembrance day for the people of that city, decimated by an atom bomb dropped on the 9th August 1945, which killed 74,000 people, not all of which immediately, many dying later due to the radiation they had been exposed to. The Japanese surrender a week later marking the end of World War II.
We remember our war dead in November each year, this is an analogous event. We will remember them and all of that and our own politicians will lay wreaths and dignitaries from around the world will attend, certainly ambassadors to other countries here will, the Commonwealth especially do of course, so it is to my mind a particularly vile and insulting thing to not attend such events as representatives of other countries, yet the UK ambassador has been instructed not to attend today’s ceremony, because the mayor of Nagasaki made a point of saying Israel, given it’s conduct in Palestine, was not welcome any more and that he was inviting a Palestinian delegate to attend instead.
Those choosing not to attend, the UK, the US, France, Italy & Australia have chosen the side of an apartheid oppressor, instead of showing solidarity in remembrance of casualties of a World War all of whom have their own share of war dead from that time to remember as well. When they turn up to their own remembrance services, whenever they hold them, they’ll be hypocrites for it, turning up there, when others were boycotted and boycotted because they’re on the side of an out of control regime that should have had their backsides BDS’d until they were red raw.
The US of course was the country who dropped that atom bomb on Nagasaki, but instead of paying their respects to the thousands who died by their hand, they’re siding with a nation that has dropped the equivalent of 2.5 atom bombs over the last 10 months all across the Gaza Strip, but because a delegate has been invited on behalf of those getting bombed, the US won’t go!
The claim is that the event has been politicised, that is the excuse being given. Last time I looked, wars always happen because of politicians. It’s all political, not turning up is a political motivation, because you’ve chosen to stand with an oppressor, when those hosting the peace ceremony are, in line with a view on peace, siding with the oppressed. Another excuse being offered is that Israel is being treated with the same level of exclusion as Russia and Belarus, which they claim is misleading. I thought to myself what a pity the UK held up the case for those arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, because if they’d been issued, as has already been done to Vladimir Putin, that excuse would fall on deaf ears. As it is, the mere fact those arrest warrants are still being sought makes it a weak excuse anyway. How pathetic that even over a remembrance ceremony, Israel still comes first. Israel gets prioritised, Israel is more important and protecting it and siding with it, no matter what atrocities it continues to mete out is absolute.
Hiroshima held their equivalent event on Tuesday, Israel was invited, is another excuse being brought up. Separate cities, separate mayors, and Nagasaki’s mayor, Shiro Suzuki cited the massive protests against Israel in Hiroshima, as one reason he didn’t want Israel there. It is supposed to be about remembrance, not politicisation, and this is coming from a guy who’s parents survived the Nagasaki strike in 1945, who will still have pressed the flesh with the likes of the US ambassador if they showed the dignity and respect to bother to show up, but they won’t be.
Now, unfortunately where Hiroshima, was supposed to be an event of remembrance, it got overshadowed by protests. Where Nagasaki have sought to avoid that, this diplomatic fallout is now overshadowing matters. What gets forgotten, is the entire point of the ceremony – remembering the lives of those lost.
Five countries have chosen to boycott a remembrance event, when none of them can bring themselves to boycott a nation committing genocide. I suppose at least we now know that they do understand the concept of a boycott, but it just shows they and their leaders, including Keir Starmer, Tel Aviv Keith yet another of his nicknames, are more outraged by the mayor of Nagasaki exercising his own discretion to protect the integrity of the Peace Ceremony, than the horrors being committed by the nation that has been told it isn’t welcome. Amoral isn’t a big enough word, but this brings absolute shame down upon our country yet again. The condemnation on social media has been justifiably excoriating.
Labour NEC member Jess Barnard tweeted out:
‘This is astounding. British ambassador to Japan Julia Longbottom is boycotting the Nagasaki peace ceremony - because she disagrees with their decision not to invite Israel. Russia has not been invited for the past 3 years.’
If she’d been instructed to go, she’d go, it’s her job is my immediate thought there, but coming from a member of Starmer’s own party executive, it’s notably damning.
Starmer’s General Election opponent and former South African ANC MP Andrew Feinstein also weighed in, saying:
‘Extraordinary: The US, UK, France, Italy & Australia are boycotting the Nagasaki Peace Ceremony because an apartheid state (as the ICJ has determined) that is committing a genocide (as the ICJ has warned) has been disinvited. These countries have abandoned any pretence of seeking peace in order to support an apartheid, genocidal state!’
And he’s right. For all of the handwringing about comparisons to Russia and Belarus, the ICJ have provisionally ruled on Israel as such, it’s a genocidal state and if these politicians like Starmer can say such things about Russia, why not Israel as well? Or does international law not apply despite claims from the government to the contrary? At least where Israel is concerned anyway.
Keir Starmer seems to manage to find a new way to disgrace himself and disgust the public each day, little wonder his personal approval ratings have tanked 15 points in two weeks and they’re bound to go lower, and it’s not just him either. Labour are already sinking in the eyes of the public, little wonder when each day they are no change from the government that came before, check out this video recommendation here though for all the details of just how bad things are looking for Team Keith and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.