LABOUR’S Wes Streeting has warned that the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah also represents a grave threat to the security of Israel.
He told GB News: “Without equivocation, Hamas are terrorists. Anti-Jewish racism, anti-Jewish hatred – the murder of Jews is written into the charter of Hamas. Be in no doubt about who we’re dealing with here and what their aims are.
“And it’s not just Hamas, it’s Hezbollah, it’s the Iranian regime which supports and funds this kind of activity.
“We’ve got to ask ourselves, sat in the security and comfort of where I’m speaking to you now in Liverpool, with people at home watching in the security and comfort of thier own homes – how would we respond if we had seen our friends, our family, our neighbours kidnapped, their bodies burned and desecrated?”
In a discussion with Patrick Christys, he was asked why some people kept silent about Jeremy Corbyn’s support for Hamas when he was leader.
Mr Streeting responded: “I certainly wasn’t biting my tongue with Jeremy Corbyn. I think he has reminded us again in recent days why the British people overwhelmingly rejected him and Keir Starmer has reminded us in recent days, with the full throated support of the entire Labour Party, that Keir Starmer has changed the Labour Party.
“When I was fighting antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, I had an ally in Keir Starmer. He was one of the only leading figures in the Labour Party at that time that I trusted and could go to and raise concerns and who spoke up as a member of the Shadow Cabinet.
“Secondly, judge Keir Starmer by his actions. When Jeremy Corbyn refused to accept responsibility for the failures of his leadership on antisemitism and issued a disgraceful response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Keir Starmer booted him out of the parliamentary party. Jeremy Corbyn will not be a candidate at the general election.”
He added: “Keir Starmer has expelled countless racists from the Labour Party. Cranks, crackpots, extremists, they’re gone. And the ones that weren’t kicked out cut up their membership cards because Keir Starmer said ‘this isn’t your party anymore’.
“I’ve been really proud to be here in Liverpool this week, not just seeing a changed Labour Party with answers to face our country, but the Labour Party conference literally standing with Israel in their darkest hour.
“I’m proud of that and I think that offers the reassurance to the country that people have got their Labour Party back.”
