Starmer criminalised the Israel warning when it came from protesters, and now he’s trapped with it because it’s coming from the Army itself. Right, so Keir Starmer is now being told by former senior British Army officers to stop arming Israel — and that is not a position he ever planned to end up in. When the people you rely on for legal cover and military credibility start warning about complicity and war crimes, the problem isn’t protesters anymore, it’s your entire strategy failing. This isn’t just about Gaza today, or one arms export licence, or one awkward intervention. It’s the result of months of treating dissent as a policing issue, criminalising early warnings, and hiding behind procedure instead of taking political ownership for what you’re doing. Activists were arrested for saying this first. Hunger strikes have been ignored. And now t ...