• Niece to Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina is to face a UK Parliament Standards Committee probe over failing to declare her finances.
• Siddiq has been firmly backed by her Zionist colleagues, who expect her to come out of the investigation unscathed.
The niece of Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina and Labour MP to Hampstead and Highgate is to face an investigation into her finances for failing to declare her income.
Siddiq, appointed by Prime Minister Kier Starmer as Economic Secretary to the Treasury was found to have broken parliamentary rules by failing to declare the rental income from her home for over a yearaccording to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner’s website.
A Labour spokesperson had stated that it was apparently “an administrative oversight” for which she had apologised. They continued by stating “Tulip will co-operate fully with the Parliamentary Commissioner on Standards on this matter.”
Siddiq is the first and only MP of the new Parliament to be placed under investigation by the Standards Commissioner. The controversial nature of this “oversight” begs two questions – why would Labour back Tulip Siddiq so unequivocally having suspended Muslim MPs like Zara Sultana and Apsana Begum and why would an MP serving for over 14 years in a predominantly Zionist Jewish area suddenly forget to record her income during a year where many unjust incidents against Muslims have occurred across the world?
Disdain for Palestine
In the weeks building up to the election, Siddiq had already faced mounting public backlash for her failure to support the calling out of the genocide in Palestine; calling for an immediate ceasefire; upholding the ICC warrants and stopping the sale of arms to Israelis, where she had previously refused to sign letters addressed to the former Tory government along with other Muslim Labour MPs to that effect.
Siddiq is known in the UK government circles as a person who championed for the Human Rights of individuals like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and groups like Rohingya Muslims and regularly likes to cite the United Nations, World Health Organisation and Human Rights Watch.
Yet her poor voting record to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to save and protect millions of Palestinians from a genocide could be considered anti-Palestinian at best and should call into question whose agenda Siddiq is serving.
In December 2023, Siddiq appeared on Sky News calling for a two-state solution, where the implication of her interview showed, that she had bowed to Zionist pressure and declared Israelis had a “right to defend themselves” and that this invasion from illegal occupiers of Palestinian land is a “conflict”.
Politically Motivated
What is more concerning is her familial connections to Bangladesh’s political elite. She is the granddaughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh. Critics have sometimes questioned her impartiality and influence due to these ties, especially concerning her positions on Bangladesh’s political matters.
In an interview with her constituency’s local paper, Siddiq is on record saying that she and her aunt “do not discuss politics”, which is untrue as it is likely she will have had to gain permission from her aunt to discuss the Rohingya genocide in Parliament and to the national press since it started in 2016 and following the mass migration from Myanmar back into Chittagong, Bangladesh.
It is unclear how this genocide is different to the one the Palestinians are facing, and why Siddiq is less vocal and more restrained by comparison when much of the world, including the organisations she regularly cites, the UN, HRW and WHO are all calling Israelis out for their genocide.
For these reasons, it becomes equally confusing why someone who likes to portray themselves as being so human rights-focused, Siddiq has not spoken out at all over her aunt’s and the ruling Awami League Party’sviolence against peaceful protestors demanding the removal of government quotas.
The level of brutality against the students and the public alike in Bangladesh has led to suggestions that there could be over 1000 murdered and tens of thousands injured at the hands of the police and PM Hasina supporters, who will avoid any action.
Loss of Identity
Siddiq has identified her priorities and has aligned them with her party and not so much with the hundreds and thousands of Muslim families in the UK by voting against repealing the DWP two-child benefit policy cap, which could be considered a Human Rights violation against the overall millions of families struggling at the moment in the UK.
Being a mother herself it is inconceivable how she can overlook so much suffering, both here and in Palestine, Myanmar, Sudan, and East Turkistan to name a few places where Muslim genocides are occurring.
Yet Siddiq will continue to sit in a unique position of power, ignoring all the death and destruction currently occurring, while cherry-picking for which group she wants to wave her human rights flag. All while rubbing shoulders with Prime Minister Hasina on one side and Starmer on the other.
