Side point but important. Under international law the occupied (Palestinians) have a right to resist their occupiers and that includes "armed struggle" (UN resolution 37/43)
One of the chief launderers of misinformation and weaponisation of antisemitism seems to be falling apart
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/15/columnists-quit-jewish-chronicle-gaza-conflict-stories
Focusing on the positives - Baleba and Ayari were superb in parts and will only get better.
Aside from a poor touch to give the ball away.
Ferdi K. looks like he will offer a lot of energy and purpose.
JPVH was class again and is capable of an incisive pass forward to break lines rather than...
Without a Gilmour and Riley slightly concerned about our creativity and ball retention in midfield. We have plenty of hard working central midfielders but lack that player to knit everything together and offer more creative passes.
Disbanding the group would in no way saying we no longer believe in Israel. It would simply indicate we can no longer back a hard right government carrying out plausible genocide and decades prior of war crimes and Apartheid. More immediately important than this lobby group than is the halting...
What is the point of the group other than to demonstrate our fealty to Israel and for MPs to take money from Israeli lobbyists? I'm not sure everyone would be as nonchalant if half of Labour were part of a group called "Friends of Saudi" and taking donations.
And yet we still have lots of front benchers who are part of ''Labour Friends of Israel''. Surely this should now be disbanded, preferably permanently.