UK Deputy PM David Lammy was asked on Sky News for his assessment of the recent mass fatalities after a suspected US precision bomb hit a girls’ primary school in Iran. Asked if the targeted attack constitutes a breach of international law, Lammy attempted to deflect saying:

This is a febrile war zone.

Sky’s Kamali Melbourne pointed out that active war zones don’t justify hitting schools, which are protected sites under international law. Seemingly unaffected by the mass murder of young Iranian girls, Lammy suggests he’s waiting for the say-so of his overlord US President Trump:

Well, I don’t know the veracity of that statement, and I haven’t seen the intelligence, but it is absolutely for the Americans to comment on what has happened there.

Once again, UK officials choose to look away, refusing to condemn war crimes committed against brown, Muslim, and Arab people.

“You recognise… if a school was targeted that would constitute a breach of intl law?”

“This is a febrile war zone”

“That doesn’t excuse hitting schools…”

“… its for the Americans to comment on what’s happened there”

So you’ve never commented on Russian war crimes, right? https://t.co/ZjLLDxNixu pic.twitter.com/vjsdCaWAxm

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 6, 2026

Lammy needs to learn: no intelligence justifies murdering children

This deplorable interview with David Lammy cannot be ignored. Lammy appears unable or unwilling to show compassion and demand the US protect civilians in Iran in accordance with international law. Even worse, the Deputy PM appears to suggest that intelligence might actually justify the US attack. A targeted attack which reportedly murdered 165 Iranian schoolgirls. Therefore, Lammy seems to believe that the precision bomb reportedly dropped by US forces on an all-girls primary school in Minab could be ‘legitimate’ under international law.

Rightfully, there was uproar from Western politicians when Israeli children were killed on October 7th, 2023. However, if Palestine and Iran have taught us anything, it is that governments in the West are more than happy to ignore the mass murder of brown children altogether. A sinister viewpoint that will be a stain on our society in the decades to come.

Hypocrisy

Lammy has been more than happy to call out war crimes against white people, at the hands of those he is publicly against such as Putin in Russia. Yet his silence now just exposes the duplicitous nature of this despicable man’s compassion and understanding:

Horrific reports from Bucha of mass graves and bodies strewn across streets.

I have no doubt war crimes are being committed.

We need a special tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin personally for his war of aggression.

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) April 3, 2022

Nevertheless, we have long had to endure his duplicity, as the failed statesman repeatedly shows a woeful inability to recognise right from wrong. It also reinforces the sense that Lammy often avoids engaging with something as silly as honesty and transparency. Discussing his backroom dealings with Israeli Zionist official Gideon Sa’ar, Skwawkbox wrote in October:

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has refused to disclose notes concerning a ‘secret meeting’ in April between David Lammy, at the time Keir Starmer’s Foreign Secretary, and his Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa’ar – because they could be “open to misinterpretation” and might harm the UK’s relationship with (genocidal) Israel, Scottish paper The National has revealed. The FCDO blocked publication of any papers relating to the meeting.

Patrick Harvie, a Green party member of the Scottish Parliament described the government’s excuse for hiding details of the meeting as “dangerous“:

“The idea that the public cannot see these documents because we might misinterpret them seems extraordinary, and if that excuse is allowed to stand, it would set a dangerous precedent.”

Sickening from @DavidLammy he never has any problems condemning Russia and accusing it of war crimes. But when it comes to America and apartheid Israel he plays the Mr Bean card.

Is sad that a man who cut his political teeth on the right side of history opposing apartheid South… https://t.co/1UZa5YKIpK

— Martin L. Zinn (@MartinLZinn) March 6, 2026

History will judge

As with Palestine, the government refuses to acknowledge crimes committed by its allies. As in October, perhaps Lammy believes the British public will ‘misinterpret’ the law and wrongly assume that everyone lives under the same rules-based order and that all lives hold equal value. That would surely scupper relations with Zionist US and Israel. After all, our leaders clearly believe that factors of religion or race should absolutely determine whether governments condemn mass murder.

Instead, the Starmer government refuse to apply independent legal reasoning and choose to continue this pattern of duplicity, placing US and Israeli interests above Britain’s own. This might be rewarding right now, leaving elected officials with heavier pockets and increased comfort. But the history books will not write kindly of those who refused to say ‘stop’ to tyrannical maniacs.

They may apply one sordid rule to the US and its allies and another to those they seek to dominate.

But justice, sooner or later, always prevails.

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By Maddison Wheeldon

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