Lammy Ignores Hunger Strikers, Defends Arms Profits
When eight Palestine Action hunger strikers demand the UK end arms trade with Israel, David Lammy, Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary, finds his inbox full. Yet, his silence is hardly surprising. Consider his political calculus: while he champions 'human rights' abroad, Lammy sits on the parliamentary committee for Raytheon, a major arms manufacturer supplying Israel. This is the same Raytheon that
was listed as supplying the bombs used on a Gaza refugee camp. (Source: The New Arab, 2024) One might wonder if Lammy’s concern for human rights extends only to those victims not impacted by companies he's paid to advise. The media frames this as Lammy being 'under pressure,' rather than acknowledging the fundamental conflict of interest inherent in a shadow foreign secretary financially linked to
weapon proliferation. How many weeks does a human rights advocate let protesters starve before their 'concern' becomes a thinly veiled endorsement of the status quo?