Labour have gone down the suspect donor rabbit hole this week. By claiming that money should be returned from a donor who said something naughty they’ve opened themselves up to obvious criticism. Longtime Labour Party donor Dale Vince has given the party at least £2.5 million to date and said in October of Hamas: “one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter… this is my view“. No apology from Vince, no statement of criticism from Labour…

Prominent Jewish MP Andrew Percy tells Guido:

“Nobody should take a penny or have any involvement with anyone who describes the Hamas terrorists who raped Israeli women, butchered innocent children, and murdered civilians in their own homes in the most brutal way as “freedom fighters”. This is a group who want to murder not just all Jews in Israel but all Jews in this country too. Surely the Labour Party won’t want to take a penny from anyone who thinks genocidal terrorist murderers and rapists are freedom fighters.“

Labour say the comments aren’t comparable to Hester’s. Why not?

UPDATE:   On Friday 4, April, 2024 lawyers acting for Dale Vince contacted us objecting to the above article claiming it would be understood to mean, that “our client supports a proscribed terrorist group”. We replied on Monday 8, April 2024 inviting Mr Vince to “to put on the record unambiguously that he does not think Hamas are freedom fighters” in which case “we will be happy to withdraw and/or amend our previous reports accordingly.” Through his lawyers Mr Vince declined so to do. They stated he had previously condemned terrorism on the record. We accept and never claimed otherwise that Mr Vince has previously condemned terrorism including saying of the specific acts of Hamas terrorism on the weekend of October 7, 2023 “I don’t support what they did”. We remain baffled therefore why he won’t even through his lawyers confirm that he does not think Hamas are, in the words he used, “freedom fighters”.