Richard Boyd Barrett
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123 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
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And yet we still haven't imposed any sanction on this state.
I mean, it's now helped in unleashing a war across the Middle East, which is impacting the entire world.
It's a complete rogue regime.
Because it is a uniquely horrific regime in the sense that it is based, the entire state is predicated on a campaign of ethnic cleansing, starting in 1948 with the Nakba, the anniversary of which is coming up this weekend.
which ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians, millions of whom are still living as refugees, displaced all across the Middle East, whose right to return is established under international law but denied by the Israeli regime.
And yet they continue.
Not only do they not give those people the right to return, but they continue in an ongoing systematic campaign on...
of ethnic cleansing, and then, of course, the worst crime of all, the genocide, for which it's now in the dark.
And yet we don't impose a single sanction.
Well, it's in the dark.
It hasn't been convicted.
Yes, but our government has joined with South Africa under pressure, I would say, but it has done it because presumably our state believes it is guilty of genocide.
And I think any reasonable person looking at the horror that has been visited on Gaza and if just they listen to the statements of the leaders of the Israeli regime talking about the annihilation of the people of Gaza, referring, saying it's justified to kill all adults in
In Gaza, the Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Parliament.
You know, I mean, you just don't hear this sort of horrific rhetoric or the practices from any other regime.
And it should be treated, in our view, in the same way as apartheid South Africa was treated.
OK.
First of all, I don't believe that's true.
We are signatories of the Genocide Convention.
And I don't believe for one minute anybody would have a legal case in Europe against us for acting on our obligations under the Genocide Convention, which, remember, was signed to prevent the recurrence of horrors like...
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