KEIR STARMER was branded a “delusional fool” during the last national march for Palestine before he is succeeded by Andy Burnham on Monday.

Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsay German slammed the Labour leader for claiming he had left Britain in a better place than when he became PM two years ago.

Addressing thousands of people who took part in the central London march on Saturday, she said: “What a delusional fool he must be to believe that; and even more than a fool because if you look at Palestine, if you look at Iran, if you look at the Middle East, he’s left Britain in a much much worse place and he’s left the people of Palestine in a much worse place. 

“He supported a genocide which allowed 21,000 children alone to be killed, he’s supported war crimes in Iran, they have bombed schools and hospitals, railway stations and bridges — these are war crimes, yet the British govt says nothing at all about them.”

Mr Burnham has said that Labour’s initial response to the beginning of the Israeli genocide in Gaza in October 2023 didn’t “get it right.”

Speaking at the march, Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali said: “Mealy-mouthed words aren’t good enough.

“The Palestinian people are suffering a genocide and if you can’t say that explicitly, I’m very worried about the future, I’m very worried another Keir Starmer just with a different face.”

Pro-Palestinian Jews and Holocaust survivors hit back at claims the protests were hostile to Jews.

Jewish Voice for Liberation co-chair Jenny Manson, who was among those who stood under a Holocaust Survivor Descendants against Gaza Genocide banner at the event on Saturday, told the Star: “Since these marches started in October 2023 I feel that this is the best place for me as a Jew to be.”

Mark Etkind said: “Anyone who has witnessed the overwhelmingly warm reception that Jews — including Holocaust survivors and descendants — receive at every pro-Palestine demo can only be shocked by the mainstream media coverage of our movement.”

Chris Romberg added: “We are a prominent group that is unmistakably Jewish or of Jewish descent.

“Clearly, there is not the slightest element of the ‘hate’ that some in politics and the media have claimed to see in these marches.”