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So Andy’s big play to replace Kier Starmer is to be …….Keir Starmer

BREAKING | Andy Burnham says that Israel's murderous assault on Gaza is NOT a genocide. The aspiring PM added that he "can't judge" Israel for what they have done./// Of course, you do know that he knows this is a total pack of lies,he also knows getting the PM job

@MichaelRosenYes @novaramedia I live in Manchester and I’ve even got a tv, social media and know that the people of Manchester have taken part in marches against the Gaza genocide, Burnham is scared of upsetting his backers and the media turning on him, spineless coward

@novaramedia Presumably, he means it’s hard to find things out in Manchester. I’ve met people in Manchester who find out things.

Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham has refused to call the Israeli military’s actions in Gaza a genocide. Asked about the violence in an interview with the Guardian, he said: “I can’t judge things of that enormity from where I am as mayor of Greater Manchester.” He added: “But I do have concerns about the disproportionate nature of what has happened in terms of the destruction, and there has to be a full process of investigation and accountability.” The world-leading International Association of Genocide Scholars last year declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Israel has killed at least 72,000 Palestinians there since 7 October 2023 and experts quoted by the BMJ say the actual toll is far higher. Burnham became a member of Labour Friends of Israel in 2015 and during a Labour leadership bid the same year described the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel as “spiteful”. He also promised to make Israel his first state visit if he won - calling the country a “democracy that has a long history of protecting minorities and promoting civil rights”. The Muslim Vote, an organisation that monitors politicians’ views on Palestine, regards Burnham’s position as “unclear”. Burnham supports a two-state solution and has denounced illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. He visited the area in 2012 as part of a parliamentary delegation with Labour Friends of Palestine and the Council for Arab-British Understanding. He was one of three senior Labour figures who in October 2023 released a statement breaking with Keir Starmer’s position and asking him to call for a ceasefire. Burnham, along with London mayor Sadiq Khan and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, said Israel had the right to take "targeted action within international law". However, they said they had "profound concerns" about the numbers killed in Gaza and the denial of aid. The Manchester mayor also backed the formal recognition of a Palestinian state, co-signing a letter in June 2025 demanding the UK government take action to protect the two-state framework. The UK went on to recognise a Palestinian state in September 2025.

@benhoobs @LeftieStats @guardian British left? There is no left in the former left wing Labour Party it’s full of soft tories and blairites

@LeftieStats @guardian You really are the worst thing the British left has ever seen - completely and utterly disingenuous by splicing the quote to suit your agenda. It's clear you don't actually ever want positive change in the UK as long as you can keep screaming incoherently from the sidelines.

🚨BREAKING | Andy Burnham says that Israel's murderous assault on Gaza is NOT a genocide. The aspiring PM added that he "can't judge" Israel for what they have done. (Via @guardian)

Caroline Lucas thinks the Greens should ally themselves with people who support genocide x.com/LeftieStats/st…

@JamesEFoster @hollygirl230 @AndyBurnhamGM He can't make any judgement on genocide as the pompous Mayor so presumably he will be even less able as a high and mighty MP. How lowly do you have to be to judge what a genocide is? #pompouscunt

@GreenPrtyNilton Bless Burnham isn’t remotely left he’s just another neoliberal soft Tory who is no different to Starmer

Wow and the Labour left think this is their man lol. Just awful really.

@CHaesemeyer @bat020 If he said it was a genocide the media and his backers will turn against him, and he’s too power hungry to lose his third attempt to be PM, snivelling little chnt

@bat020 There’s no way he would call it a genocide because if he did acknowledge that it would create legal obligations for the British state if he were to become PM, and that would be extremely awkward for everyone involved wouldn’t it

Burnham on Gaza: he wouldn't call it a genocide, but he does have concerns about the disproportionate nature of what has happened in terms of the destruction. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@soclp_uk @LindaSayle So Burnham is only concerned about 'disproportionate destruction' and not the repeated Israeli war crimes inflicting deliberate death, maiming and deprivation on so many innocents?

@StarmertheFraud yet he finds it easy to comment on Ukraine as a wee town Mayor with no ability to see beyond the Trafford Centre...funny that x.com/AndyBurnhamGM/…

The Road to Wigan Keir

Man doesnt understand he was thought to be able to bridge the left and centre. Thats why he was popular. He's totally ruined it already. These Blair era melts never learn.

@AndyBurnhamGM . Pompous cunt. Just re-read that sentence again. Puffed up turd. Far too busy with his important job to find the time to look at a potential genocide. Simply impossible. 'I can't judge things of that enormity from where I am as mayor of Greater Manchester '

Same old Labour Same old spineless amoral politics from Burnham🤷‍♀️ He “can’t judge” Israel’s genocide as such🤷‍♀️ He won’t abandon Labour’s Reform-style assault on migrant’s rights🤷‍♀️ He won’t do PR before the next election🤷‍♀️

@soclp_uk He lives in Manchester, does he not use social media, have a TV or notice the marches in Manchester against the Gaza genocide? He has not guts and doesn’t even deserve to be mayor of Manchester never mind a potential replacement for Starmer another genocide denier

🚨Andy wanting to keep his head down on the question of tens of thousands of women and children being killed. 🔴”Burnham declined to describe the catastrophe on the ground in Gaza as a genocide. “I can’t judge things of that enormity from where I am as mayor of Greater Manchester,” he said. “But I do have concerns about the disproportionate nature of what has happened in terms of the destruction, and there has to be a full process of investigation and accountability.” theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

.@AndyBurnhamGM refuses to say the truth: Israel is carrying out multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity & GENOCIDE He SHOULD say UK will stop providing weapons & diplomatic cover and impose sanctions He fails test of decency, morality, legality, humanity & MORAL COURAGE

Absolutely useless. A disqualifying moral failure. Nobody needs another creature of the genocidaires.

Asked whether he considers the situation in Gaza to be a genocide, Andy Burnham — currently a leading contender to succeed Keir Starmer as Labour leader — declined to use the term. He said there must be a full investigation and accountability process, while expressing concern about what he described as the disproportionate scale of destruction in Gaza. Source: The Guardian

Andy Burnham in an interview with the Guardian deflected and avoided describing Gaza as a genocide. Just another Labour politician with zero moral clarity.

Andy Burnham won't call what is happening in Gaza a genocide. There will be absolutely no change in foreign policy from the King in the North.