Kensington Labour Party appears to be avoiding public accountability over its refusal to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Activists arranged a protest to be held outside Kensington Unitarian Church tonight, where the constituency party was due to meet. Labour has now switched its meeting to take place online .

With national, regional and local party bosses backing Israel’s policy in Palestine, the Labour group of councillors have come under scrutiny. Having agreed a statement opposing Israel’s crimes over two weeks ago, the group has failed to publish the document, which was expected to distance the Kensington group from the party’s de facto support for Israeli genocide

In an email sent to local members and seen by Urban Dandy, the party blames “unforeseen circumstances” for the cancellation of the in-person meeting. One of the speakers at the online meeting will be from GMB, the trade union that issued a statement two weeks after Israel had launched its massacre, carefully avoided naming Netanyahu’s apartheid government as the perpetrator. 

Israel has no right under international law to use violence against the population it occupies and subjugates. 

by Tom Charles @tomhcharles