British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed he believes that the call to “internationalise the intifada” is a “call to attack Jewish communities around the world”.

Conservative MP Julian Lewis asked Starmer in parliament on Tuesday afternoon whether he accepted that there was no possible interpretation of “internationalise the intifada” other than as “a call to attack Jewish communities around the world”.

Lewis seemed to be referring to the popular chant “globalise the intifada”, often used at pro-Palestine protests. Starmer replied: “There’s no other interpretation.” He added that he was glad Lewis had raised the point.

Pro-Palestine activists have strongly denied that “globalise the intifada” is antisemitic or a call for violence, and British Jews have been prominent in pro-Palestine marches in the UK.

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    21 hours ago

    When people yell “liberation” and people assume that means attacking Zionists, then you really have to wonder what those Zionists have been up to…

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      23 hours ago

      It’s crazy how this one issue has exposed the political instincts of so many politicians as so piss poor that they can’t possibly have achieved their positions by convincing people to vote for them.

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        20 hours ago

        Just look at Joe Biden - he’d been in US politics waiting to be president for something like fifty years and then totally fudged it over this.