Sir Keir Starmer is facing vitriolic attack from within Labour over his support for Israel – with one prominent figure accusing the party leader of ‘enabling a war crime‘.
He angered the party’s pro-Palestinian faction by saying Israel ‘does have that right’ to withhold power and water from Palestinian civilians, though ‘everything should be done within international law’.
The backlash has been so great that Labour insiders claim Sir Keir has ordered a seat-by-seat analysis to assess if it could have an impact on chances of winning the election. Fatima Said, a National Executive Member of the Labour Muslim Network who was parliamentary staff member for Jeremy Corbyn when he was party leader, posted that she assumed the Gaza hospital blast was an attack by Israel.
