The Labour Party stands at a fork in the road. One path leads to political irrelevance, moral collapse, and eventual extinction. The other demands moral courage: the immediate and permanent expulsion of the Zionist MPs who have turned the party into a shield for Israel’s barbarism.
The time for ambiguity is over. Neutrality is complicity. Silence is complicity. Labour is now fatally compromised by the presence of apologists for apartheid, for colonialism, and for the most heinous war crimes in living memory.
What we are witnessing in Gaza is not a “conflict”. It is a massacre, a calculated campaign of extermination waged by a nuclear-armed state against a defenceless population trapped in an open-air prison. And yet, within Labour’s ranks, we find MPs parroting Israeli propaganda, denying reality, and slandering anyone who dares to name these crimes for what they are.
The recent atrocity in Rafah is a brutal case in point.
Fifteen Palestinian aid workers — paramedics and emergency responders — were hunted down and shot dead by Israeli soldiers near the southern city of Rafah. Their mission was not political. They were not combatants. They were medics, risking their lives to save others in a war zone.
Their mutilated bodies were later discovered dumped in a shallow grave, hastily buried, as if their lives and dignity counted for nothing. The Palestine Red Crescent has rightly called this what it is: a “fully fledged war crime”. The world should be in uproar. Yet, Israel’s apologists within Labour offer only obfuscation and deflection.
Israel’s Lies Unravel
From the moment the killings were exposed, Israel’s story has shifted like sand beneath a collapsing edifice.
Initially, the Israeli Defence Forces claimed they fired on “suspicious vehicles” approaching in the dark without lights or markings. This was swiftly debunked. Footage from the victims themselves, recovered and verified, clearly shows the convoy of ambulances and emergency vehicles, lights flashing, unmistakable to any soldier not wilfully blind.
Even more damning, the only known survivor — paramedic Munther Abed — testified that the soldiers opened fire directly on clearly marked emergency vehicles.
Cornered, Israeli officials scrambled to change their narrative. Days later, they admitted troops fired “from afar” at the convoy, claiming to have identified Hamas operatives amongst the aid workers — a claim they offered without a shred of evidence.
By the following week, the story had morphed yet again. Israel brazenly asserted that “six Hamas terrorists” were among the dead. This grotesque post-facto justification cannot conceal the truth: this was a deliberate slaughter of humanitarian workers, followed by a clumsy cover-up.
No evidence has been provided. No credible explanation given. Only hollow assertions, accusations hurled at the dead, who cannot defend themselves.
A Pattern of Murder
This was no isolated incident. It fits a well-established Israeli pattern: target civilians, claim “terrorist infiltration”, and rely on Western complicity to escape consequences.
Israel has long exploited the cynical narrative that Hamas uses ambulances for military purposes. But repeating a lie does not make it true. In the case of Rafah, no weapons were found, no evidence presented, only bodies — lifeless, discarded, and dishonoured.
The Red Crescent has demanded an independent international investigation, rightly rejecting Israel’s self-serving internal probe. Israel, predictably, has refused. “We have nothing to hide,” they claim, while hiding everything.
What of Labour’s Zionist MPs during this horror? Where were their voices as paramedics were gunned down? Where was their outrage? Silent, absent, or worse — echoing Israeli talking points. By refusing to condemn these crimes unequivocally, they align themselves with murderers.
Two million people in Gaza — half of them children — are suffering severe malnutrition, illness from treatable diseases, and no clean drinking water because the US under Biden and Trump paid and armed Israel to block all food, water and medicine from entering. @haaretzcom: pic.twitter.com/neS3YkDWe9
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 10, 2025
The Poison Within Labour
The sickness within Labour runs deep. These MPs who drape themselves in the banner of Zionism are not mere “supporters of Israel”. They are defenders of apartheid, mouthpieces for a regime that brutalises Palestinians daily.
They weaponise false accusations of antisemitism to silence critics of Israel’s atrocities. They undermine the party’s working-class base, which overwhelmingly supports Palestinian liberation. They defile the memory of international solidarity that once defined Labour’s soul.
Their presence in the party is an insult to every principle Labour claims to uphold: justice, equality, and human rights. By retaining them, Labour betrays the oppressed and stands with the oppressor.
Labour’s Existential Choice
The choice facing Labour could not be starker.
To expel these Zionist MPs is not an act of factionalism — it is an act of political survival and moral necessity. Failure to do so will not only condemn the party to further electoral decay but will also render it a permanent accomplice to Israel’s crimes.
The British public is not blind. They see the massacre in Gaza. They see the murdered children, the bombed hospitals, and the desecrated aid convoys. They see a Labour Party paralysed by fear of its own right wing, too cowardly to speak truth to power.
Expulsion of these MPs would be a first step toward redemption — a signal that Labour will no longer be a sanctuary for war criminals’ apologists. It would restore the party’s credibility among the young, the working class, and all who stand for justice.
It would say, loudly and clearly: Labour will not be complicit in genocide.
No More Excuses. No More Delay.
There is no middle ground left. Either Labour purges the Zionists from its ranks, or it continues its descent into moral oblivion. Either it stands with the oppressed, or it stands with the oppressor.
Purge the Zionists, or perish.
History is watching.
And so are we.
