As the Zionist colonial entity’s genocide in Gaza shows no sign of relenting, British parliamentarian Jeremy Corbyn’s inconsistencies and evasions too show no sign of diminishing. As Labour Party leader between 2015-2020, Corbyn rarely mentioned the Palestinian cause against Zionist occupation and colonisation. On one of the rare occasions, he spoke about Palestine (in November 2017) to commemorate the centenary of the British Empire issuing the Balfour Declaration, which pledged “a Jewish national home” to the European Zionist colonial movement, he bemoaned that one side of the King George V’s Declaration remains unfulfilled! In other words he didn’t condemn the colonial declaration. Instead, he de facto endorsed it and proclaimed that its shortcoming was that the indigenous Palestinians, unlike the Zionist colonial-settlers, don’t have a country as of yet. In 1917, the Jewish population of Palestine was between 60-80 thousand, as opposed to at least 700,000 Palestinians. There and then, on the hundred year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the genteel Corbyn outrageously insulted the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle by virtue of endorsing the very imperialist death warrant which underpins the Palestinian tragedy.
During the recent commemoration of the 76th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the Nakba, Corbyn once again took the opportunity to showcase his inconsistency and evasion on the greatest issue of the day on three occasions. Firstly, on the 15th May he posted on the social media website, X that
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