UK ablaze: 'Flames of conflict threaten our own communities'
British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, warns that the conflict in the Middle East has “ignited sparks in our own communities”.
The British leader denounces the increase in Islamophobic and anti-Semitic acts in the United Kingdom since the October 7 attack. “There are always people who use conflicts abroad to stir up conflicts here. Since October 7, we have seen hatred against Jews and Muslims rise in our communities,” he says in an op-ed in the Sunday Times. Keir Starmer uses the metaphor of fire to underline the gravity of the phenomenon on British soil: “the flames of this deadly conflict now threaten to consume the region. And the sparks are igniting in our own communities, here at home”.
In the column in question which shared on the eve of the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israeli soil, the Labor leader asks “all parties to act with restraint” and to “return to political, not military, solutions”.
(MH with Manon Pierre - Source: Le Figaro - Illustration: Unsplash)