Douglas Murray diagnoses the Gaza Problem, & mentions ‘the odd-balls Party of Jeremy Corbyn & Zarah Sultana’.

Political Observer.

stephenkmacksd.com/

Jul 31, 2025

Headline: Starmer’s spineless pandering to the Gaza vote is coming at a terrible cost

Sub-headline: Palestinianism is a creed that is entrenching divisions and transforming our culture for the worse

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/30/britain-now-west-capital-sectarian-politics/

Editor: Mr. Murray point of political arrival is articulated in the these paragraphs.

Within Starmer’s own ranks similar pressures reign.

We now have a number of MPs who have been elected to Parliament purely for their ability to speak to the Palestinian issue, and they have done so because the issue is – as they know – one of the two foreign policy issues which most ignites opinion among Britain’s growing Muslim electorate (the other issue being Kashmir).

Much of the Muslim world – even those hailing from the Indian sub-continent – have imbibed anti-Israeli and indeed anti-Semitic views from birth. And they have decided that the creation of another Muslim state, and the eradication of the world’s one Jewish state, should be a priority.

As well as the “Gaza independents” in Parliament, Starmer also needs to head off the considerable number of his own MPs who share much of their sentiment or pander to the same electorate. He also has to head off the new oddballs party which is being set up by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana – someone who is expert (as so many radical Leftists are) at playing both bully and victim at the same time.

Although Corbyn’s new movement may not be significant in the House of Commons at present, it is perfectly possible that at a future election a party like his which makes Palestinianism its first priority could hoover up dozens of seats.

Starmer’s Labour Party would then be squeezed not only by Reform that is leading them in the polls, but by this other force to his Left. Were these two forces to come at Labour simultaneously it is perfectly possible that they could push the air out of the inflated Labour majority and lead to the party losing its majority in Parliament. With the Conservatives not yet seeing any meaningful uplift in their own popularity, this messy outcome starts to look like the most likely way that Starmer’s massive majority would deflate.

Some people will think that what Starmer has done is clever politicking. It may be in the short term. But in the long term it is yet another demonstration of a dangerous trend in our country. That is the way in which religious, sectarian conflicts from abroad have been brought into the heart of our own nation, a trend which sees blocks voting along ethno-religious lines.

Starmer may have no way to lead this country to a positive future. But this week he has given us another glimpse into a future which is just as fractured and divided as some of us long warned it could be.

Editor: Mr. Murray trades on the toxin of ‘The Other’, that threatens the indigious British populations? The once British Empire, and its explotation of subjugated populatons, across the Globe, has now become the home of many, who came to Britain, in search of a better life, and opportunities unavalable to them in those former ColoniesMr. Murray is the voice of those former Colonizers.

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