Opinion: 'Can Starmer survive his week of shame with Herzog and Mandelson?'
Opinion: 'Can Starmer survive his week of shame with Herzog and Mandelson?'
The symbolism of the official photographs from Isaac Herzog’s meeting with Keir Starmer was unmistakable.
The Israeli president, who blamed all Palestinians in Gaza for the 7 October attacks, and has supported Israel’s two-year genocidal war, was welcomed by the UK prime minister to Downing Street.
Starmer shook hands with Herzog on the doorstep of Downing Street, and was pictured sitting at a table inside the prime minister’s residence, with the flags of each country behind them.
Outside protesters expressed the widespread revulsion and outrage felt by millions in the UK that our government continues to support a state committing a live-streamed genocide that has likely killed and injured at least 238,000.
According to Ipsos Mori polling, the UK public think, by 49 percent to 10 percent, that Starmer has done a bad job on the Palestinian issue. Excluding the "don’t knows", three quarters of the UK general public say Israel’s military actions in Gaza have gone too far; 13 percent say it is about right; and 11 percent say not far enough, proof that genocide is fine with a hard core of right-wing voters.
