Labour Rebels Demand Reparations for UK ‘War Crimes’ in Palestine
9th March 2026
Sir Keir Starmer has been sent a letter by Labour MPs calling on the UK to pay reparations to Palestine for “war crimes” they allege British forces committed.
The 18 backbenchers and one Labour peer demand that an apology be made for Britain’s decision to withdraw from Palestine, which led to the creation of Israel.
It is part of a campaign by Britain Owes Palestine, the organisation that submitted a 400-page legal petition to the government in September, in which it claimed there was “incontrovertible evidence” that the UK breached international law when it controlled Palestine under the British Mandate.
No mention of Palestinian reparations for their ‘war crimes’, of course.