THE US presidential candidate and public intellectual Cornel West has said Rishi Sunak should be ashamed of himself for continuing to allow UK arms…
THE US presidential candidate and public intellectual Cornel West has said Rishi Sunak should be ashamed of himself for continuing to allow UK arms sales to Israel.
The NYPD later stormed the protest and arrested around 300 students who were also threatened with suspension if they continued the encampment.When asked by LBC if he had a message for Sunak, West said: “Shame on you. What kind of moral fibre do you actually have that you could continue to fund this kind of massacring and murdering of people?
Sunak is due to meet with university leaders on Thursday after claiming that the wave of protests and encampments at institutions across the UK were disruptive to learning and “propagating outright harassment and antisemitic abuse”.However, West - who is running as an independent candidate against Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the US presidential election - said the UK Government had a “morally bankrupt” stance on Israel’s continuing bombardment of Gaza and were “in denial about genocide”.
“To see people concerned and caring about other people who are just so vulnerable and subject to such vicious treatment.” Joe Biden said his government would not be supplying offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault in the city of RafahWe know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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