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Illan Pappe: Those who denounce Labour anti-Semitism are silent on Gaza
6 April 2018 14:35 BST
Ilan Pappe, a leading Israeli historian and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, has written for MEE about how the Jeremy Corbyn/anti-Semitism row in the UK has made it harder for the Labour Party leader to speak out about the ongoing situation in Gaza, which has seen 22 Palestinians killed since last Friday.
Pappe refers to the presence of Israeli flags amid the protest outside the UK parliament on 26 March and writes:
“The dividend for the Zionist lobby in Britain was that Corbyn would be silent in the face of the new massacre in Gaza – and without him, we have very few brave politicians who would dare to utter a word in the new atmosphere of timidity.”