Owen Jones: All the wrong people are cheering with the SNP in crisis

THERE’S a good rule in politics which has served me well. Let’s call it the Dora Gaitskell Rule. Dora was the wife of then-leader Hugh Gaitskell. After a fiery speech at a Labour Party conference in 1962 opposing the UK entering the European Economic Community, she turned to him and said: “All the wrong people are cheering.”

When the 2014 referendum campaign began, the proportion of Scots backing Yes was in the upper 20s, while today’s polls suggest independence has the support the backing of half the population. Those same Western states responsible for legitimising and abetting decades of Palestinian suffering lined up behind this obscenity, through the provision of weapons as well as diplomatic and political support.

Under Humza Yousaf’s leadership, Scotland took a different position. From the start, collective punishment was opposed, and a ceasefire was swiftly demanded. Pressure must be kept on Scotland’s leaders to remain vocally committed to holding Israel’s leaders to account, and demanding that concrete action is taken to protect the Palestinian people from genocidal mayhem.

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