This was always going to be the most predictable parliamentary “debate” imaginable. More than 118,000 British citizens had signed a parliamentary petition calling for a public inquiry into “reported Israeli state-linked and pro-Israel lobbying activity in UK politics”. The backdrop, of course, is British complicity in Israel’s genocide – and, more broadly, the decades-long apartheid, occupation and colonisation endured by the Palestinian people.
Petitions passing 100,000 signatures are put forward for debate by MPs. But most of our representatives did not so much debate the issue last week as reach for well-rehearsed smears.
