Starmer and Israel fan tweets ‘pager to Zarah’ Sultana in apparent reference to Israel’s Lebanon terror attack

Starmeroid ‘Ben in Rushcliffe’ backtracks after outrage, claims didn’t know there was a pager attack

East Midlands Keir Starmer and Israel fan ‘Ben in Rushcliffe’ – perhaps an official party representative, although his exact identity is unclear from his profile, with some suggesting he works for Rushcliffe council, though this is far from confirmed and a council employee would be expected to maintain public political neutrality – has provoked outrage by posting a call for left-wing Muslim MP Zarah Sultana, a strong critic of Israel and advocate of Palestinian freedom and human rights, to receive a pager in an apparent reference to Israel’s terrorist attack on Lebanon using exploding pagers and radios:

The comment caused widespread disgust and calls for the police to investigate the apparent threat or incitement:

The Starmeroid activist responded to the backlash by deleting his post and claiming that he had never heard of the Israeli pager attack, which was global news at the time it took place, and that his comment was not a reference to it, although ‘Pager to @zarah’ seems a non-sequitur if stripped of that meaning. Certainly those who read his excuse seemed unequivocally scornful:

‘Rushcliffe’, who has also complained that supporters of Jeremy Corbyn are not ‘kind’, then locked his account to hide his X feed. However, some remnants remain as screenshots suggesting both a familiarity with Israel-Gaza and a distinct defence of Keir Starmer’s collusion in Israel’s genocide and his abuse of the party’s left-wingers:

‘Rushcliffe’, however, has not yet, at the time of writing, locked the gushingly pro-Starmer ‘LabourPost’ account he runs on X:

Israel’s terrorist attack using booby-trapped pagers and radios killed and maimed thousands in Lebanon, including children. Pro-Israel groups and apologists have frequently used the mention of, or actual pagers, in an attempt to threaten and intimidate anti-genocide activists, for example the US pro-Israel group ‘Betar’, which has tried to push pagers onto advocates of Palestinian human rights, including many Jews – most notably the Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein:

UK police under the Starmer regime have been slow to take any action against threats and abuse by the Labour right, while the party has protected racists and abusers, even sexual abusers – but the regime is waging a ‘lawfare’ war of intimidation and harassment against left-wingers by misusing anti-terror laws to raid, intimidate, imprison and prosecute those who expose and resist Israel’s genocide and war crimes in Gaza and neighbouring countries.

Because of the uncertainty around his identity, Skwawkbox has been unable to contact ‘Rushcliffe’ for comment. The Labour party, which has a long and entrenched record of unpunished Islamophobia, has been asked whether it will take any action but is not expected to respond.

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