Laura Pidcock slams Labour genocide complicity, panicking Sky presenter

In a move that clearly panicked Sky presenter Cathy Newman, former left-wing Labour MP Laura Pidcock called out the Labour government’s complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Sky‘s Cathy Newman covers for Israel

Speaking about how awful Labour’s current elites are, Pidcock stressed:

We’ve just watched a Labour government be complicit in a genocide in Gaza

There is overwhelming consensus among genocide scholars, including many from Israel, that the apartheid state has committed genocide against Palestinians in occupied Gaza. Countless human rights groups, humanitarian organisations, UN experts, and legal scholars agree. (You can see our in-depth list here.)

Countless Israeli war crimes, which have led to the issuing of international arrest warrants for Israeli criminals, have killed 72,760 people since October 2023, including over 20,000 children.

Newman, however, rushed to interrupt and challenge Pidcock for saying the word ‘genocide’, asserting:

You know that that word is disputed

Who exactly disputes that Israel has committed genocide? Well, Newman cleverly avoided clarifying that. But the disputers in question are primarily:

• The Israeli government itself, which is full of wanted war criminals.
• Israel’s political and corporate allies in the West, which have enabled and benefitted from its crimes.
• Unscrupulous lobbyists who funnel money into political parties and establishment media (like Sky) to fuel and normalise genocide denialism and apologism.
• Fascists who think the word genocide only applies to white Europeans.

So yes, some despicable human beings trying to justify Israel’s genocidal colonialism absolutely do dispute the word ‘genocide’.

But you would expect a responsible, professional journalist to ignore their warped assessment of the situation and instead focus on the judgement of genocide scholars and other people who actually care about human rights and international law.

Labour is complicit in genocide. But the corporate media is too!

When Pidcock suggested that no ethical person would dispute the word ‘genocide’, Newman quickly tried to change the topic, saying:

We’re sort of off the point of the Labour leadership battle

But Pidcock replied:

This is important. Because if we are thinking about why there is such a huge amount of discontent at the polls, we have to look at the record of the Labour government.

Genocide complicity is a big part of that record. And it’s a key reason why today’s Labour is so repulsive to so many people. It has become a vile vacuum of morality and principles, where its leader – a former ‘human rights lawyer’ no less – has enabled genocide and openly engaged in genocide denialism.

Judging by how clearly awful and deceitful Keir Starmer’s project has been for years now, Pidcock asserted:

It really doesn’t wash with me – these cynical resignations now, at a time when we’ve just gone through the most horrific genocide and [have] a Labour government which has done nothing for the poorest people in society.

That’s why leadership hopefuls Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham – very much part of the same vacuous right-wing ecosystem that spawned Starmer – just represent more of the same. They didn’t meaningfully object to Starmer dragging Labour far to the right, so we can just consider them “continuity Starmer”, Pidcock said.

The Labour right is synonymous now with support for mass murder. And we can say the exact same about our corporate media too, as Cathy Newman demonstrated well in her interview with Laura Pidcock.

Featured image via Sky News / Saul Staniforth

By Ed Sykes

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