Diane Abbott was right in what she wrote. Of course, there are degrees of racism with the Nazi kind being the worse we have ever seen in the 20th century. But the 300 years of European and American white racism that killed and enslaved millions of black people is skated over. Is that not the worse crime against humanity that we humans have ever inflicted on our own species?
However, that is played down because we were the perpetrators and, even worse, our Head of State has never apologised, let alone made reparations to the victims' relatives. By only compensating the perpetrators, the Head of State has added insult to injury in the eyes of our Commonwealth partners. Similarly, we cannot be too critical of our great friend and ally, the Israelis because we don't want to lose their friendship when the Jewish community in the UK is easily the most important and highly valued minority community. And, of course, their land is the home of our national faith for the last thousand years. When our Jewish friends talk of anti-Semitism we sit up and take notice. We jump, damn pronto. However, it has led to Keir Starmer, I believe, to act egregiously ("extremely and conspicuously badly") against Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott.
It is high time that Starmer shows some real leadership by setting a fine example in talking and then acting about the urgency to curtail the exporting of all armaments originating in the UK that are killing our fellow human beings in Palestine, Sudan and in Ukraine. Keep British armaments on British soil for the defence of our land, only.
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