cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35167663
By Imran Mulla
Published date: 22 August 2025 17:47 BSTNow, he is organising a Gaza Tribunal of his own. “We have on 4 and 5 of September, for two days in Church House in Westminster, an open public inquiry,” Corbyn says.
“It will be live on YouTube and lots of other platforms and channels, and that inquiry will be hearing voices from people in Gaza, in the West Bank, aid workers, journalists, lawyers, international legal experts.”
[Note to our Fedi friends in the UK - it would be great if someone could get this tribunal streamed via Peertube in some fashion.]
The new party was announced on 3 July, when MP Zarah Sultana left the Labour Party and said she would co-lead a different outfit with Corbyn.
That party doesn’t exist yet. It doesn’t even have a name. But it has already received more than 800,000 sign-ups.
Polling this week found that a third of 2024 Labour voters would consider voting for a Corbyn-Sultana-led party, as well as over a quarter of Labour members.
Corbyn is good on Gaza, but he is terrible on literally everything else. He is a huge supporter of Putin and russian genocidal imperialism as well.
the only way komrad korbyn will get his authoritarian chum farage elected is by splitting the left vote. the most effective way to do that is to abuse the only issue his non-party has and have a show trial. i notice historians are not on the list of the invited.
and how will this help gazans? not in the slightest, but that was never the point and who really ever gave a damn about peace in gaza anyway?
Wow I don’t know if I’ve ever come across anyone who holds all of those specific opinions. It’s genuinely interesting to me. I’d have expected “he’s a raging antisemite” instead of “good on Gaza”, given the rest of what you said
Or is it when you say “literally everything else” do you just mean “other foreign policy stuff”?
This commenter is just understandably misled by the UK media’s decades-long smear campaign. He is absolutely not “a huge supporter of Putin and russian genocidal imperialism as well”, if you take a look at his history of words and actions.
How is supporting the annexation of Crimea (just one example in context of Ukraine, there are many more) not open support for russian genocidal imperialism?
The fucker openly works with russian propaganda/intel services. This has nothing to do with the UK media.
How is he not a supporter of Russian gencidal imperialism? He openly supports the annexation of Crimea (and by extension the prosecution of Ukrainian speakers and Crimean Tartars in occupied territories). He is also huge supporter of russian propaganda resources.
I am more aware of his tankie foreign policy views (I am not from the UK), but based on discussions with friends who do live there, his economic policies are also uninspired (nationalizations etc.) even if you are left leaning.
Repeating it doesn’t make it true. How are you not a supporter of Russian genocidal imperialism?
Someone please tell me why I shouldn’t be optimistic about this.
I don’t know a great deal, but his stance on the Russia/Ukraine war concerns me.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/02/jeremy-corbyn-urges-west-to-stop-arming-ukraine
Funny how his stance on Russia/Ukraine boils down to “Palestine should be free”. Really makes you think
Don’t see that objectionable stuff in there, really. I’m in favour of arming Ukraine. This article is several years old. It’s not like Starmer stopped the war either. In fact, I think most Western European politicians have an interest in the war dragging on for as long as possible
Nah, he openly supports the annexation of Crimea (which means he supports the prosecution of Ukrainian speakers and Crimean Tartars).
The stuff about western leaders wanting the war to drag on as long as possible is a tankie conspiracy theory.
I think it’s pretty obvious and I despise tankies. Look at what they’re doing, not just what they’re saying. Russia is a serious threat and they’re finally seeing it. Better to have them fighting in Ukraine than their country
Edit: speaking of nasty conspiracy theories, btw, Starmerites calling Corbyn an antisemite was really the lowest of the low. Labour has been taken over by neoliberals fighting the left harder than the right
What they are doing (being slow and inconsistent with weapon deliveries) is driven is by fear and the receptiveness of their electorates to russian sabre rattling (even thought such strategies are openly described in key russian doctrinal texts) and russian propaganda.
I hate Corbyn, but I don’t think he is an anti-semite (or maybe I just don’t know enough). There is more than enough things to call him out for beyond vague notions of anti-semitism.
