Burnham’s plan to ‘end neoliberalism’ includes hiring US firm linked to Gaza aid site massacres

Andy Burnham has hired Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to help shape his 10-year plan, which he said was intended to “end neoliberalism” in the UK. The appointment has drawn scrutiny because BCG previously worked with the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an aid organisation whose distribution sites were linked to shootings of Palestinians.

The article says BCG helped establish GHF and supported a related security company before distancing itself from the project. It reports that more than 2,600 Palestinians were killed and many thousands injured in connection with GHF’s aid distribution, and that Israeli soldiers or US contractors deliberately shot people seeking aid at its four sites. BCG has been accused of aiding starvation tactics that could constitute war crimes and genocide.