Keir Starmer’s wife felt ‘sick’ when she saw pro-Palestinian protesters outside family home
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/19/keir-starmer-wife-victoria-starmer-palestinian/
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Keir Starmer’s wife felt ‘sick’ when she saw pro-Palestinian protesters outside family home
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/19/keir-starmer-wife-victoria-starmer-palestinian/
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**From The Telegraph:**
Sir Keir Starmer’s wife has said she felt “a bit sick” when pro-Palestinian protesters [demonstrated outside their family home](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/10/three-people-charged-for-pro-palestine-protest-starmer/), a court has heard.
In a demonstration on April 9, a banner was hung outside the house that read: “[Starmer stop the killing](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/10/three-people-charged-for-pro-palestine-protest-starmer/)”, surrounded by red hand prints, while rows of children’s shoes were laid in front of the door by Youth Demand activists.
Giving evidence in the trial of three protesters at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Lady Victoria Starmer said she had returned to her home by car when her son first spotted the protest.
“I didn’t want to stop and be obvious,” she told the court.
Asked how seeing the protest had made her feel, Lady Starmer said: “I felt a bit sick, to be perfectly honest. I felt apprehensive and uncomfortable.”
Lady Starmer said she knew it was “people who [were not agreeing with my husband](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/10/31/rishi-sunak-latest-news-tories-labour-keir-starmer-live/)” and she drove around the corner before contacting Sir Keir’s office.
Leonorah Ward, 21, of Leeds, Zosia Lewis, 23, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Daniel Formentin, 24, of Leeds, have been charged under section 42 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 and with breaching court bail.
All three have denied committing public order offences.
The trial continues.
**Article Link:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/19/keir-starmer-wife-victoria-starmer-palestinian/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/19/keir-starmer-wife-victoria-starmer-palestinian/)
I make her right, there was no call for it. We all rightly called out the Extinction Rebellion lot who invaded Rishis house, Starmer and his family shouldn’t have to experience it either no matter how right the protesters think they are.
**Starmer stop the Killing**
What powers do these cretins think the leader of an opposition party of a minor European country has?
no doubt. Those people are indeed sick. Sick fantatics, but I suppose that makes sense.
I mean, yeah? Who wouldn’t? Whatever their purported cause, I wouldn’t trust a mob that turns up at the leader of the opposition’s family home as far as I could throw them.
I don’t think anyone sane would support such an act. It’s borderline terrorism when they target the families of politicians
Using the bloody hand print with regards to the palestine conflict either tells you they don’t know the conflict or makes their position about jews clear.
(It was adopted as a symbol among palestinians a few years ago, when israeli jew couple drove into an arab area by mistake. They were pulled from the car into a nearby building as the crowds around were calling for blood. The red hand symbol came about when a man inside showed his bloody palm to the crowd through the window, as the jews were murdered and butchered. Its a symbol of palestinian hatred and bloodlust)
The one thing that the article doesn’t touch on is that Victoria Starmer is Jewish.
There is at least *the possibility* that there is an antisemitic undercurrent to the whole thing; that the people protesting against Starmer are doing so because they’re invoking the old conspiracy theories of a) all Jews being loyal to Israel, and b) Jews pull the strings of world governments. The idea being that Starmer might be having his strings pulled by Israel, via his Jewish wife. And that’s why they’re targeting Starmer specifically, rather than any other politician (I haven’t seen nearly as much thrown at Sunak, for example, despite him actually being in government).
This is, of course, grossly offensive.
I think Starmer is a legitimate politician to protest over Palestine. Still, you shouldn’t do so outside his home, or any politician’s home, because it crosses the line from their professional to personal life and is especially concerning if they have family.
At his events, outside Labour HQ, and outside Parliament seem reasonable places to conduct such a protest.
‘People in power who hate accountability, don’t like these protests’ and it’s forced people to protest on their footsteps.
It’s not appealing or appropriate to do it this way, but when the government actively ignores these protests in favour of profit or politics servitude, then don’t act surprised when protestors fine new ways to have their say about this genocide.
I don’t like these tactics, but we’re talking about it so it works I guess 🤷♂️
Proper weird and out of order if you go to a politician’s family home – just as it was when Corbyn was doorstepped by the press.
It’s always ‘pro Palestinians’ and not anti atrocity. A spin. I’m always anti atrocity.
If you support this (I don’t) then you should be fine with anyone who disagrees with your stance on something having the right to stake outside your family home and refuse to leave.