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Politicians can make a principled stand on Gaza and human rights
• I WAS really annoyed at the letter from Councillor Dawn Somper (A new type of politics? February 19).
Cllr Somper fears “divisive religion-based politics in Camden” because Councillor Syed Hoque quoted Gaza as one of his reasons for switching from Labour to Liberal Democrat.
It is not only Muslims who have criticised Israel’s use of disproportionate, overwhelming and illegal firepower against civilians and children in Gaza. Those who have condemned it also include the Red Cross, Amnesty International, the UN and Jewish organisations in Britain such as Jews for Justice in Palestine.
But not the Labour government or the Conservative Party.
Of the main parties the Liberal Democrats were alone in condemning Israel’s slaughter of 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza (hundreds children), and alone also in calling for an end to arms sales by Britain to Israel.
That is not, as Cllr Somper thinks, “cynical or divisive”.
It is a principled stand on international conventions of human justice.
Robin Young
Bedford Avenue, WC1 |
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