I suspect he’d be much more willing to call a genocide a genocide if:

• Antisemitism allegations hadn’t been so tremendously effective at smearing the Corbyn-era Labour Party.
• There wasn’t still a huge chunk of the electorate who find it more plausible that the whole world would come up with an antisemitic smear campaign against Israel than that Israel would commit a genocide or any IDF soldier would commit a warcrime.

There’s no room to tell the truth without being branded an antisemite by people who conflate the state of Israel with Jewish people, and there are good reasons to think his position is too tenuous to survive that.

Starmer’s already a gonner, though, so there’s nothing to lose from a mic drop on the way out, but there’s no way he’d actually do it.

i appreciate novara media’s use of inverted commas in the headline

New gaffer, same as the old gaffer

Genocide apologist

Fuck him then.

Oh hey! This was the guy who was going to save Britain from Stormtrooper! Very cool m’lord, thank you.