• Siddiq silence on social media on racial tirades from Jon Ashworth and Keir Starmer aimed at Bangladeshis.
• With its’ large Jewish population, Siddiq is aiming to stand in the general election again and win at the expense of Palestinian lives.
Former Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq is aiming to be re-elected as the MP for the recently re-marked constituency of Hampstead and Highgate.
Siddiq is the granddaughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – the first President of Bangladesh. She is also the niece of the current Bangladesh PM and Leader of the Awami League Party (AL) – Sheikh Hasina – who faced international criticism for having elections which lacked legitimacy, as her main opponents are always found to be unable to stand against her – like Navalny vs Putin.
Despite having such strong links to Bangladesh, Siddiq has chosen to stay quiet over the recent unrelenting racial tirade targeting Bangladeshis, by her Labour peers Keir Starmer and Jon Ashworth – as reported by Ayesha Malik.
What is more disturbing is how quiet she has remained since October 8th, letting Starmer get away with lie after lie. Anytime she has spoken out, it has never been to challenge the Labour Leader.
Siddiq has shown that she is willing to save a constituent like Zaghari-Ratcliffe from the hands of an authoritarian rule like Iran yet to date, she has failed to stand up for the countless women, mothers and children where and when it mattered most in Palestine
As an MP for 10 years in the same constituency, Tulip claims to know her community well. From her time as a trustee for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to being a key campaigner for the safe return of her constituent Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
On 3rd July 2023, Siddiq voted to abstain in making BDS illegal for Public Bodies. However, on 10th January 2024, she voted against for the third reading of the same bill.
On 15th November 2023, Siddiq again abstained. This time on a crucial ceasefire motion in Occupied Gaza. This caused an immediate backlash and soon after led her to write to her constituents an extensive letter explaining her reasons why she didn’t vote for the motion; that she does want a ceasefire; why Hamas would not listen; but also doesn’t definitively place Israelis in the role of the oppressor. She also pushed back on calls to resign using the conviction she portrayed in the letter, of someone who is the right in not voting for an SNP motion for a ceasefire.
Unfortunately for four months she never brought forward her own motion for a ceasefire; for ceasing arms sales; for sending food and medical support to Palestinians; despite knowing and acknowledging in Parliament the unimaginable suffering going on there.
Only when the SNP was going to bring an amended motion in late February 2024 did both Tories and Labour decide that they wanted to table their motions also, with the latter and Keir Starmer getting away with the biggest injustice to Palestinian lives this country would have seen at the time.
Despite this, Tulip Siddiq is still standing with them, although it seemed she was possibly getting ready to abstain again, based on the names of MP’s shown to support Labour’s amended bill, her name was not there.
Most egregiously she went against signing letters drawn up by her peers to David Cameron, which there can be no excuse for. Zara Sultana MP – calling for the ‘Suspension of arms sales to Israel’ on 27th March 2024 and Richard Burgon MP – calling for the UK Government to ‘Uphold ICC arrest warrants against Israeli war criminals’ on 22nd May 2024.
Two weeks prior to Zara Sultana’s drafted letter, Tulip Siddiq wrote the following on her Instagram:
One would expect a typical response like this from a Councillor, with a limited position in the community. Siddiq is an MP with deep connections to the leadership of another country, who already claims to recognise the State of Palestine. Her family fled to the UK as refugees during a civil war and “embraced multicultural Britain”.
If anyone were to understand Palestinian suffering and ought to start attending Pro-Palestine protests, and speaking out regularly against the genocide, it should be her.
Unfortunately, Siddiq seems to have forgotten where she has come from and who she represents. Either that or she’s just gotten too comfortable and happy to settle for things the way they are.
