Fighting Netanyahu, backing Israel, defending Palestinians – Labour is stuck in a confusing, painful position

For one side, what deepened the offence was the timing. At the very moment the announcement came in the House of Commons, they were burying their dead in Jerusalem. While the foreign secretary, David Lammy, was on his feet, a few thousand miles away the parents of a 23-year-old who, along with five fellow hostages, had been murdered by Hamas in a Gaza tunnel a few days earlier, said a final goodbye to their son.