“The issue is still under consideration…I’m not saying it is or isn’t at this point in time, that hasn’t yet been determined.” Andy Burnham’s response when asked on LBC whether there is a genocide taking place in Gaza.

The UN Commission of Inquiry concluded in 2025 that Israel is committing genocide. Its chair, Navi Pillay, explicitly rejected the idea that governments had to wait for the ICJ’s final judgment: “How can states act to prevent genocide? How can they punish people who are committing genocide if they have to wait for a genocide determination from the court?”

If what has been done to Gaza, Palestine & Lebanon by Russia they would all be shouting from the high Heavens & calling it exactly what it is. A bloody genocide!!!

"Yes, I know it's genocide, but the UK's complicit so I'm going to hide behind a court of my choosing's decision ... Oh, did I just say that out loud?"

Just to clarify the situation for you @andyburnham - I'm astonished it needs clarification - this is a list of the Human Rights organisations who recognise a Genocide when they see one, coupled with a list of 'others' who disagree :

This is what you call a spineless coward. Fucking embarrassing!!

Spineless little puppet. It's a fucking genocide

JFC I am sick of these weak politicians Even B' Tselem say theres been a genocide

Lying, pathetic weasel. The whole world knows and has seen it. What is wrong with this zionist PM?

last week the coward sat next to Netenyahu and said he stood with Pissrael.

The Labour Party front bench, where integrity and morality have withered on the vine and Palestinian lives don't matter.

Oh dear! Did @andyburnham he miss this? I think really he knows but doesn’t want to implicate his fellow cabinet members who presided over it and did nothing

Burnham is no different from Kid Starver

It's definitely a genocide.

Burnham is another spineless mouth piece for the zionist lobby, too afraid to take them on.

Anything to avoid upsetting the zionist lobby. Feck him

What a bloody idiot!

I’m so tired of these feckless politicians who won’t call it out. Is Burnham being blackmailed too?

The ICJ have determined it to be 'plausible', so kicking in our obligations under the Genocide PREVENTION protocols. @andyburnham Stupid We Are Not Furious We Most Certainly Are 😡😡

Owned and operated by the Board of Deputies. I wonder what they have on him…

His a charlatan

1/3 of a million kids slaughtered and he's still taking advice. demand investigators and journalists are let in then.

@Normanjam67 Still spineless.

He is disgrace its is a genocide

Yes it is a genocide! Amos Goldberg, professor of Holocaust History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Amos Goldberg: “Yes, it is genocide”

We've got to wait until the ICJ have reached their determination in 2032, and then we'll intervene to prevent the genocide in Gaza.

@paddymaid Oh yes it has 🙄

If he can't tell what genocide is then he shouldn't be running a country

Under consideration ? It's under way,has been for decades. It has been determined by the ICC, ICJ, and most of the countries at the UN. Burnham still sends weapons, recco flights, and military support to Israel, obviously is not only a supporter of Israel,but also of Genocide.

Coward

How much more proof does he want. Check google maps and see for yourself

For this alone, burnham should be fired.

Disingenuous wkr