Rachel Reeves.
When she’s not telling lies on a curriculum vitae, and wilfully squeezing the last few pennies out of disabled people, rather than hammering the living shit out of Britain’s 156 billionaires, she is showing up at a Labour Friends of Israel lunch to deliver an oath to empire, declaring herself an “unapologetic Zionist” and pledging eternal friendship to a parish state accused by the International Court of Justice of committing genocide in Gaza.
What was Reeves thinking?
I appreciate that the Israeli-lobbyist-funded chancellor isn’t quite Mensa material, and making gnats piss-strength tea in the accounts department doesn’t really make her a bona fide economist. She probably does think a “structural deficit” is something to do with a leaking roof at Number 11, but brazenly platforming herself in front of 400 pro-Israel donors and apologists — many of whom bankroll the bulldozers that bury Palestinian children alive — is an act of callous stupidity that further exposes the rot at the heart of Keir Starmer’s Labour government.
Rachel Reeves: the rot at the heart of Labour
Rachel Reeves stood in front of hundreds of champagne-swilling millionaires and thanked them for their friendship.
“Friendship” is what she calls the river of cash that flows freely from Trevor Chinn’s hedge-fund pockets, through LFI slush funds, and straight into the campaign accounts of every spineless Starmerite loyalist who’s ever taken an all-inclusive junket to the embarrassment of the ‘developed’ West, Tel Aviv.
Reeves went out of her way to thank Joan Ryan — the woman who chatted about a million-quid bribe offer from an Israeli embassy spy on camera — for services to Zionism, I would assume?
Reeves also thanked Margaret Hodge — the witch-hunter general who branded Palestinian solidarity “antisemitic” — before having the gall to lecture *us*, the British left, about “hate and prejudice”, for daring to take to the streets and march against the live-streamed extermination of an entire people.
Rachel Reeves isn’t trying to balance a complex situation, she is a fucking collaborator and history will remember her as the Labour chancellor who chose Zionist donor dinners over humanity, photo-ops with war criminals over justice, and the polite applause of the Park Plaza ballroom over the screams of Palestinian children under piles of rubble.
Never forget, Reeves chose to stand with the oppressors and spit on their victims without a single shred of shame.
The symptom of the illness
This is another disgusting symptom of Labour’s rightward lurch under Keir Starmer, where economic cruelty at home mirrors moral cowardice abroad. Prioritising Zionist donors over the global south’s oppressed comes easy to Rachel Reeves, but true socialism stands with the dispossessed, not the imperialist lobbyists.
A cynical individual may well describe this gathering of super-rich Zionist donors and their Labour lackies as a celebration of genocide in a five star hotel, and I’ve always been a cynical individual.
Interestingly, another friend of Israel, Keir Starmer, also attended the lavish, ghoulish celebration, but it was Rachel Reeves that delivered the keynote speech.
Friend of Israel? That’s code for accomplice to mass murder where I come from.
Labour politicians are always quick to talk about the horrors of October 7, as if Israel’s 77-year Nakba of rape, theft, and slaughter never happened, but they’re never as quick when it comes to acknowledging the 100,000+ Palestinians that have been erased since, their bodies pulverised by F-35s armed with their government’s multi-million pound exports of death.
A tiny bit of honest context makes a hell of a difference, don’t you think?
Feigning balance really doesn’t cut it. Claiming Israel isn’t beyond criticism is the thinnest of veneers over unyielding support for Israel’s “right to self-defence” and the loaded imperialist lobbyists that conflate our support for the Palestinian people, falsely, with a hatred of Jewish people.
The “two-state solution” rhetoric rings hollow when Labour has suspended only 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel, and someone, anyone, please point me towards just one single meaningful sanction on the settler thugs who burn olive groves and murder aid workers.
Just one.
Screw Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves calls herself a feminist while backing a regime that bombs maternity wards and starves pregnant women to death in Gaza.
She calls herself a “social democrat” while pocketing blood money from the very same mega-rich financiers who profit from apartheid walls and sniper drones.
Let’s peel back the liberal varnish and say it how it is.
Rachel Reeves is a genocide-denying, austerity-wielding, donor-hugging, neoliberal butcher in socialist drag.
Reeves cruelly slashed benefits for British grannies freezing in their flats, wilfully forced yet more children into dire poverty, disproportionately targeted disabled people with austerity 2.0 and hikes taxes on British workers to fund… what?? More arms for Tel Aviv’s child slaying monsters?
Torch the bridges to this Zionist-infested Labour. It is beyond redemption.
And as for LFI, why the fuck does a political movement founded upon principles of solidarity with the globally oppressed want to be friends with the backers of a genocidal, colonialist outcast like Israel?
Perhaps ask the aforementioned Joan Ryan. She can give you at least a million reasons why.
A sensible Labour membership would deselect these LFI parasites, smash the donor networks, and boycott Israel until the occupation crumbles, and with any luck, they’ll take the Labour Party with them.
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