Rivkah Brown – Novara Media June 5, 2025
Over 300 Foreign Office officials who collectively raised concerns about the government’s handling of the Gaza genocide have been slapped down by their Whitehall superiors in a letter described by a former senior diplomat as “shameful”.
Sir Oliver Robbins and Nick Dyer, the two most senior civil servants in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), reminded a group of officials that while they welcomed “healthy challenge”, there were other “mechanisms available to those who are uncomfortable” with policy besides applying collective pressure – including resignation.
In mid-May, officials wrote to foreign secretary David Lammy urging the government to end its collaboration with Israel and comply with international law.
In their response, seen exclusively by Novara Media and published in full below, Robbins and Dyer suggested that employees worried that the government may be enabling war crimes speak to their line managers, vent to a staff counsellor or resign, the last of which they described as “an honourable course”.
A former senior British diplomat described Robbins and Dyer’s letter to Novara Media as “shameful” and “a sneering fob off” to staff acting on “deep personal conscience”. They called on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee to investigate the exchange.
Zarah Sultana, an MP currently suspended from the Labour whip for opposing the two-child benefit cap, told Novara Media: “This is what happens when a government enables genocide: it silences its own workers, censors questions and dares them to quit rather than change course.”
In a statement, an FCDO spokesperson told Novara Media: “It is the job of civil servants to deliver on the policies of the government of the day and to provide professional, impartial advice as set out in the civil service code. There are systems in place which allow them to raise concerns if they have them.”
The letter exchange exposes the long-running battle within the civil service over Gaza, one that has only occasionally spilled into the open.
‘The erosion of global norms.’
In their letter to Lammy on 16 May, 310 FCDO staff reiterated their “longstanding concern” over the UK’s Gaza policy. “It is clear the UK could be doing more to bring an end to this humanitarian disaster,” they wrote – and could even be abetting it.
The group acknowledged that despite some steps in a positive direction – including the Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Mustafa’s recent visit to the UK, the partial suspension of arms sales to Israel and the UK’s refusal to critique the International Criminal Court or UNRWA, as the US has done – the UK’s contribution to the conflict was largely negative.
“The UK government’s position has contributed to the erosion of global norms,” the group wrote, citing the government’s continued sale of weapons to the country despite a supposed export ban, and its recent welcoming of Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar.
There are nothing but traitors to britain and to the white race in any level of the british dictatorship, so there will be no “resignations”. Not that anyone would notice if there were because no one knows who the vermin are anyway. The ones that we can see – like lammy the guyanan or the nigerian stooge running the jew “conservatives” or the arab running london – none of these will ever fuck off, because they work for the jew, who owns everything. Name one british person who’s done anything to fight back.
Adolf Eichmann was a bureaucratic administrator just like these slime.
Nothing from anyone in the government about the whiteocide being engineered in UK via millions of wog invaders and the hordes of white female mulatto makers
@MM
but he had ambition to fulfill his objectives .
dictated him only one drop of jewish blood !
@ MOSLEY
YES sorry that english folks still not awake to
the ugly truth that they stay on last low level
of british society .
but is same here with germans .
@mosley
weep for me
actualy Adolf Eichman was put in charge to help jews
he tried to get other countries to take them, no one would so he pressured the island of madagaskar to take them
Many jews stayed loyal to Germany it was mainly these that jan hoch
( robert Maxwell) hunted down and said were activists, getting them put into the work camps
remember jews declared war on germany in 1933, without them look how germany prospered