Survivor: Starmer, Blair, British Jews, and Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

9 May 2026

Blair and Starmer

Tony Blair is a shameless politician. Together with his English wife, Cherie Blair, and their financial connections to Israel, particularly through the Saban family and Larry Ellison, they are the British version of Hillary Clinton without the animosity towards Trump. Blair’s position regarding Trump is plain and simple. He works for the American President.

Blair rose to political prominence in the second half of the 1990s, reaching the ultimate goal of capturing the Prime Ministerial chair. His main political contribution, articulated by his close adviser Peter Mandelson, one of the many heroes of the Epstein saga, as a ‘new Labour revolution’, is moving the party to the coordinates of the English political center, which is traditionally conservative, by gaining the support of the country’s tabloids, most notably Murdoch’s.

Following the self-inflicted 11 September 2001 American attacks, Blair led Britain into two illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. On 18 March 2003, he advocated in parliament for the cause of war. Blair manipulated intelligence to justify the war, in the spirit of neoconservative allies in the United States and fellow die-hard supporters of Israel, such as Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and Thomas Friedman.[1] 

Blair recruited international law scholar Christopher Greenwood to overcome the opposition of the Foreign Office’s legal adviser. Greenwood falsely framed the hawkish and factually inapplicable ‘pre-emptive’ attack doctrine into obscure legal principles. According to The Guardian in 2004:

Yet it now appears that Greenwood's advice played a key role. On Monday 17 March, Blair called an emergency Cabinet meeting. Robin Cook, the former Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons, had just announced his resignation. With the doors to the Downing Street garden opened to cool the heated atmosphere, Goldsmith took the seat of Cook and circulated two sides of A4 spelling out the the legal authority for going to war with Iraq. No discussion was allowed. Former Cabinet Minister Clare Short tried to ask why the legal advice had emerged so late and whether there was any doubt, but she was not allowed to speak. Goldsmith's final legal advice closely followed Greenwood's and it was clear that the military chiefs were now happy. 'Shock and Awe' was less than two days away.[2]

Opposition to the war within the Labour Party was firm. Blair’s coalitionists took revenge under the pretext of antisemitism within the party. Eventually, opponents of the war and critics of Israel were purged. Among them are former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, acclaimed director Ken Loach, and former party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Shortly before departing his Prime Ministerial office in 2007, Blair lobbied the Bush Administration to be installed as a Middle East envoy, head of the Quartet regarding Palestine / Israel. The idea worked. Blair was received with Israeli enthusiasm and healthy Palestinian disdain. Unpopular at home, hoping to restore his image through events abroad, Blair’s achievements as head of the Quartet have been null.

Then came the Chilcott Inquiry’s report that investigated the Iraq invasion by Britain. Despite damning findings, no explicit conclusion was reached about the illegality of the war and Blair’s responsibility for it. Nevertheless, the war’s unlawfulness and Blair’s culpability are indisputable.[3]

Blair’s blind support for Israel and his Labour Party’s infighting have led him to reiterate Israel’s lies about the nature of the resistance operation from Gaza on 7 October 2023. An occupied, besieged, and abused enclave by Israel for decades produced a legitimate act of resistance under the law and morally. Israeli forces intentionally killed at least most of the Israeli civilians that day, as the country’s military and government censorship maintain their prohibition on publishing the facts. Blair continues to absolve Israel of any guilt and accountability regarding Gaza, denying the perpetration of genocide, and joining Trump’s takeover board together with Netanyahu, followed by the watchful eye of Ellison[4] and the rest of the Israel lobby in the United States. Israel’s catastrophic military failure in Gaza is being rewarded by complicit United States, through aggressive financial bullying. Blair has had trouble keeping his mouth shut, so he also supported the American – Israeli aggression against Iran.

At this time in history, Starmer is a reflection of Blair, with some checks and balances imposed on him by segments of the British public opinion. Starmer’s professional and political career exposed his survival instincts above all, shifting alliances according to local moods. He maintained British military collaboration and complicity with the United States and Israel throughout the genocide in Gaza initiated by his predecessor Rishi Sunak, immaturely rejecting the fact that Israel is perpetrating genocide. Starmer transformed from a Corbyn supporter to being a copy of Blair and Blairism.[5] As Director of Public Prosecutions, he engaged with Israel’s lobbying efforts to diminish the application of universal jurisdiction in Britain and stalled in one case to let an Israeli official avoid arrest.[6]

Starmer invoked his wife’s faith, claiming he has relatives in Israel to legitimize his support for Israel, perpetuating Israel’s essential colonial and apartheid structure and character. His government applied an aggressive crackdown against activism protesting Israel’s genocide and British complicity in it, banning the Palestine Action group and threatening to prohibit protest marches that express solidarity with Palestine.   

British Jews

Writing about British Jews in the context of Israel and its genocide in Gaza is an engagement in risky generalizations and, therefore, a potential for inaccuracies. Nevertheless, it is warranted given the special relationship that Britain had fomented with the formation of Israel, an apartheid and colonial country, in Palestine. Their number is not significant, but they have exercised genuine, compelling, and decisive political pressure throughout the years. Intellectually, suffice to say that Tony Judt was a dedicated Zionist for decades until his mild departure from the ideology in 2003, while some of Christopher Hitchens’s family nourished their adoration and commitment to Israel.[7]Simon Schama’s authorship needs no introduction.

Israel was created because of the lobbying efforts of impactful British Jews. Not excluding Benjamin Disraeli, Herbert Samuel advocated in 1915, when Jews in Palestine constituted less than 10%, for colonial Britain to support the formation of a Jewish State in Palestine. Samuel was rewarded for his effort by being appointed as the first High Commissioner for Palestine of the British colonial mandate. The appointment was a consequence of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the British Foreign Secretary’s pledge, on behalf of the British government’s sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations, to Zionist British tycoon Rothschild to support the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine.

In 1992, in the wake of the Palestinian unarmed uprising in the 1967 occupied Palestinian territories (East Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza) and Israel’s televised brutal behavior, an authority on British Jewry and Zionism wrote that organized Zionism in Britain was in distress, but “at the same time almost every Jew in Britain seems to be a Zionist and support for Israel throughout the Jewish community is all but universal.”[8] Organized Zionism in Britain is indeed less dominant than the American one, where control of the legislative and executive branches on issues relating to Israel is almost absolute. But it has managed to reinvent itself in the same style as the American one. The latter pushes America’s ally Britain on issues outside of its direct jurisdiction, while local British Zionism activism provides a sustained advocacy endeavor.

In both main parties, Labour and the Tories, there are influential groups bluntly titled ‘Friends of Israel’.[9] Similar to their counterparts in the United States, the central objective of lobbying is to circumvent knowledge production on Zionism and Israel’s performances in Palestine,[10] and to shield Israel from legal consequences abroad, particularly through the diligent application of universal and International Criminal Court’s jurisdictions.[11]

The organized British Jewish community, in all its forms and affiliations, is steadfastly supportive of Israel regardless of its colonial and apartheid system and policies. Minor shifts can be detected during the genocide in Gaza that do not reflect the overwhelming approach. This community also overlooks Israel’s persistent accusatorial terrorism[12] to safeguard itself from necessary scrutiny. As with the organized American Jewish community, they benefit from the alibi produced by the reprehensible conduct of their country’s intelligence services MI5 and MI6.

The odds against Palestinians are as great as the justness of their cause. The world is not necessarily noble, and the forces against them are vast and influential. The challenge to overcome them is not easy, but not insurmountable. It is definitely worth the effort to abolish them.

     Blair with Ellison in the background. Source: The New Statesman, 24 September 2025.

Blair and Starmer. Source: The Guardian, 2 September 2024.

Blair at U.N. Security Council. Source: Blair Institute, 28 April 2026.

[1] Patrick Wintour, “Blair manipulated intelligence to justify war, says BBC film”, The Guardian, 21 March 2005.

[2] Martin Bright et al, “Whistleblower”, The Guardian, 29 February 2004.

[3] Stephen Moss, “Iraq War was Illegal, says former lord chief justice”, The Guardian, 8 February 2010.

[4] Ellison’s commitment to Israel verges on the psychotic, taking over major media companies in the United States to shift American public opinion on Israel pursuant to the whims of Bari Weiss. See also Eli Clifton, “Oracle execs: Love Israel or maybe this isn’t the job for you”, Responsible Statecraft, 3 October 2025; James Titcomb, “Meet the other tech billionaire close to Trump – and Tony Blair”, The Telegraph, 5 February 2025.  

[5] Steve Richards, “Is this Keir Starmer’s government or Tony Blair’s?”, The New Statesman, 4 September 2025.

[6] John Mcevoy, “Israel Lobbied Britain to Change Law on War Crimes Arrests”, Declassified, 19 September 2024.

[7] See Christopher Hitchens interview with Charlie Rose, 6 November 2001.

[8] David Cesarani, “One Hundred Years of Zionism in England”, 25(1) European Judaism, pp.40-47 (1992).

[9] See Mark Curtis, “Why Don’t UK Media Mention the Israel Lobby?”, Unclassified, 27 April 2026; Hamza Yusuf, “We need to talk about the pro – Israel lobby in the UK”, Mondoweiss, 28 April 2024.

[10] See, for example, Felix Pope, “‘No one with a moral conscience’ should take part in Oxford Union debate on ‘Israeli apartheid’, academic says”, The Jewish Chronicle, 18 July 2024; Shmuley Boteach, “No Holds Barred: The Oxford debates on Israel”, The Jerusalem Post, 23 November 2015.

[11] Oliver Holmes, “Palestine condemns Boris Johnson for opposing ICC Israel investigation”, The Guardian, 5 April 2021; David Hearst & Imran Mulla, “Exclusive: David Cameron threatened to withdraw UK from ICC over Israel war crimes probe”, Middle East Eye, 9 June 2025; Jeremy Sharon et al, “Britain challenges ICC’s jurisdiction over Israel, delaying arrest warrant decision”, Times of Israel, 27 June 2024.

[12] See Serge Schmemann, “Bombing in Israel Wounds 13 People; Talks are in Peril”, New York Times, 10 January 1997; Serge Schmemann, “Suicide Bombers Kill 13 in Jerusalem Market”, New York Times, 31 July 1997; Serge Schmemann, “Suicide Bomber Kills 5 on a Bus in Tel – Aviv”, New York Times, 20 September 2002.