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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Husam Zomlot

I call on the UK to join the world majority – and recognise the state of Palestine

Keir Starmer, with foreign secretary, David Lammy, during a UN security council meeting, New York, 25 September 2024.
Keir Starmer, with foreign secretary, David Lammy, during a UN security council meeting, New York, 25 September 2024. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Future generations will look back on this moment as a turning point, when an unrelenting campaign was waged to erase the Palestinian people, and ask how this was allowed to happen.

How world leaders, faced with a choice between complicity and courage, enabled genocide. How they denied Palestinians our inalienable right to self-determination and return, and chose to support occupation over freedom, apartheid over equality. Today, after decades of appeasement and impunity, Israel has entrenched one of the longest military occupations in modern history, one that seeks not only to control Palestinian life but to extinguish it.

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