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Supporting Palestine Helped the Left Win in France and Britain. Will Democrats Learn From It? (theintercept.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/politics

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[–] derbis 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What makes you say that those gains were in spite of support for Gaza? I presume you're talking about France?

[–] apis 2 points 4 months ago

UK Labour's position on Gaza is no different to that of the Tories (or to the DNC in the US). In Scotland, the SNP is strongly pro-Gaza, but were wiped out. That's likely to have been in matters besides Palestine, but voters had the option to prioritise it and roundly rejected it. In NI & Wales, pro-Gazan candidates did less considerably less well than predicted 18 months ago. A few pro-Gazan candidates ran for the Workers' Party - a handful of them won seats, but others, including their party head lost theirs. Meantime far-right Reform loathe Israel & loathe Palestine more, but made massive gains.

In France, pro-Gazan FI is a major component of NFP, the alliance which got the biggest vote share, but they only scraped that by working strategically with the rest of the left & with the neolibs to see off the far-right, and even this alliance did not win a majority. Within this there's little to no agreement on Palestine, and FI's position drew in some voters and alienated others.