Anti-genocide protesters pile hundreds of pots and pans outside LFI-er Kyle’s constituency office

Anti-genocide activists have piled hundreds of pots and pans outside the constituency office of Peter Kyle, the right-wing Labour MP for Hove and former vice-chair of the Labour Friends of Genocide Israel (LFI) group.

The pots and pans are a reference to recent protests outside Downing Street and at other key public locations around the UK, in which demonstrators banged pots and pans for hours to literally make a noise about the Starmer government’s collaboration in Israel’s genocide of at least 434,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza, by the latest calculation. The protest was organised by Brighton and Hove for Palestine, Stop the War Coalition and other groups, with the pots and pans the pots and pans symbolising the domestic lives destroyed by Israel’s genocide.

Protester Leyla Mahmoud said:

We’re here today because silence is complicity. Peter Kyle says he supports humanitarian pauses, but people in Gaza are still dying daily. That’s not good enough.

Kyle has been heavily criticised in the past few days for his easily-disproven claim that Labour has “done everything possible” to stop the genocide and has “been disgusted for a long time” about it when he was pictured smiling broadly with far-right Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely just in March – and for setting police on a constituent who emailed him to demand actual action to stop the slaughter.

Local resident Danielle Ross said:

We voted him in to represent us, and a majority of Labour supporters want an end to this violence. We don’t need statements—we need action.

The constituency office reportedly stayed unoccupied the protest. As well as the pots and pans piled in front, letters, ceasefire petitions and anti-genocide posters were taped to the windows.

Protester Mo Bashir hinted at a repeat:

If it takes 500 pots to get Peter Kyle to hear Gaza’s pain, then that’s what we’ll do. Next time, it might be a thousand.

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