“Horrific deaths and human suffering are explained away, covered up, obscured. And when that fails, they turn to censorship and repression.”
Apsana Begum MP was amongst the speakers at last Saturday’s national demonstration for Palestine in London – you can read her remarks below.
Over 300 dead in aid lines. Children shot for bread. Hospitals under siege. Refugee camps bombed. Entire towns wiped out.
The West Bank is an open-air prison.
Sealed, starved, raided.
And since Israel’s bombing of Iran the violence in Gaza and the West Bank has escalated.
Impunity is the word of the moment.
Israel continues to intensify its destruction of Palestinians and their way of life with total impunity.
Israel’s strikes on Iran, Yemen, Lebanon and Syria are reckless and dangerous for us all.
We so often hear grand speeches from the UK political establishment about the “rules-based order”.
But when the ICJ accuses the UK’s ally, Israel, of genocide, when the UN condemns war crimes, when international law is trampled on again and again, when human rights are obliterated: that same political establishment looks away.
Horrific deaths and human suffering are explained away, covered up, obscured.
And when that fails, they turn to censorship and repression.
Indeed, the fourth anti-protest bill in four years has been in Parliament this past week.
I have and always will defend the right to protest.
But we refuse to be silent about the undeniable truth.
Palestinians aren’t just starving—they’re being starved.
They are not just dying—they are being exterminated by a UK ally, using UK-made weapons.
Not in our name.
Stop the complicity.
Stop the arms trade.
Sanction the killers.
Uphold human rights for all.
End the oppression of Palestinians and recognise their right to self-determination.
- Apsana Begum is the Member of Parliament for Poplar and Limehouse- you can follow her on Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram and TikTok.
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