Cllr Zuber Gulamussen resigns over Keir Starmer’s support for Israeli genocide and also issues withering resignation statement
Newham councillor Zuber Gulamussen has dramatically resigned his membership of the Labour party on live television – and issued a withering resignation statement to go with it, condemning the Starmer regime’s betrayal of millions of Gazans by supporting Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and his refusal to call for a ceasefire.
Speaking at a rally covered on the Islam channel, Gulamussen said he could no longer bear to be associated with Starmer’s party and was joining former Labour councillor Mehmood Mirza’s independent group:
Mirza was hounded out of Labour by the Starmer machine – then trounced a Starmer staffer in Newham’s Boleyn ward by-election in July, despite a mass Labour campaign to try to defeat him.
Gulamussen’s statement adds more detail, accusing Labour of ‘giving cover for Israel to commit heinous war crimes’ and of ‘irreparably damag[ing] its relationship with Muslim communities’:
Two Newham branch party chairs also resigned their membership in solidarity with Cllr Gulamussen. Chair of East Ham ward Tariq Hussain and Green Street East chair Parvez Sheikh announced their decision after his speech. East Ham’s long-serving secretary Syed Taqi Shah and women’s officer Sophia Naqvi have also resigned:
Starmer’s party fears that Newham will become ‘another Tower Hamlets’ – the London borough that the party lost catastrophically to the Aspire group run by Lutfur Rahman, the former – and again current – mayor ousted after a racist smear campaign by the Labour right. Those fears may well be coming true.
Labour has shredded its standing with not only Muslim communities. Millions are now appalled and marching for Gaza, seeing the Labour right for what it is.
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Meanwhile, in the USA:
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/11/21/ex-obama-adviser-says-killing-4000-palestinian-children-wasnt-enough/
……and in this video…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytb2vId7K-4
…..one of the issues Jeffery Sachs talks about is the way in which campus students in the USA are being targeted and blacklisted in terms of future employment for having the temerity to go off script from The Official Narrative (TON) on Israel. With wealthy donors exerting cancel culture pressure on university institutions.
Which is somewhat ironic in a ‘what goes around, comes around’ kind of way given that many campuses have been hotbeds of such a culture.
However, university campuses are not the only place in the US where going off script from the TON will get you fired……
……As actress Melissa Barrera has just found out:
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/scream-producers-explain-melissa-barrera-fired-antisemitism-1235804914/
” Spyglass Media Group initially declined comment when Variety broke the news that the company had dropped Melissa Barrera from the cast of “Scream 7.” But now the production banner behind the hit horror franchise’s revival is pushing back on a narrative that has quickly coalesced around the decision: that Barrera was fired for showing support for the Palestinian cause. Instead, a spokesperson clarifies that Barrera’s posts were interpreted as antisemitic.
“Spyglass’ stance is unequivocally clear: We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech,” a Spyglass spokesperson tells Variety. ”
Just who decides what is and is not antisemitism with no process is something we have become familiar with in the UK.
Perhaps its someone like this……
https://twitter.com/StopZionistHate/status/1725333342831124923
or maybe this……
https://twitter.com/Anna_AnninaEl/status/1725215298867937320
Looks like we could well be moving towards an inverse of the traditional boycott? Where the wealthy and their bought and paid for politicians and media talking heads boycott the general public.
‘Sorry Sir/Madam/???? you can’t buy anything here, enter this venue, or access this service. You hold the ‘wrong’ views. And by the way, could you please stand still while I decapitate you for holding those views.’
Monty Python would have had a field day with this nonsense.
This, and the examples Dave posts below, demonstrates why Zionism IS a mental illness. These people are just hopelessly deranged, to put it mildly. Problem is, they have nukes. Unless the Israeli public get a grip on this liability and vote them out at the next election (which will be any time now, going by Israeli standards), they will be a such a pariah state that it will make apartheid South Africa look positively innocuous.
And then anti-Semitism really WILL be a problem.
Leadership challenge now!!! Get devastating treacherous Zionist scum Starmer out!!!
Thank you so much for this Steven. I’m voting for Sophia Naqvi tonight!!! Great image of Sophia at end of above video!!!
The majority of the PLP still thinks that comes the next General Election most people will vote on domestic issues and with the Tories in free fall their only choice under FPTP is to vote Labour.
My educated guess is that the PLP would be looking at the results of the Mayoral and Assembly election is London and the Mayoral Election in the North East.
Should Sadiq lose London and Driscoll win in the North East, I believe the PLP will trigger Starmer for the leadership as they would be afraid to be challenged by independents.
If you’re right, Maria, it’s important that we help Transform and other embryonic ‘new party/new focus’ initiatives. Transform’s holding its founding conference in Nottingham this Saturday.