The Empire Strikes Out: Palestine Recognition, British Edition
Keir Starmer dresses up imperial arrogance as morality, recognising a terrorist non-state and calling it diplomacy.
The freshly recognised Palestine comes with the usual British superiority complex. Where exactly is the capital of Palestine? He has just rewarded terrorists and turned it into political theatre. It means nothing! Israel isn’t a British colony, the empire’s long gone, and he could declare Palestine in Essex. That’s how trivial his stance is.
Besides, Hamas doesn’t want a two-state solution. He should know that, the lobotomised spineless t-word. And yes, Britain made this mess to begin with.
Law? What Law?
Palestine is not a state. Never has been. It doesn’t meet the Montevideo criteria: no fixed borders, no functioning government, sovereignty split between a terror outfit in Gaza and a president-for-life in Ramallah who is now in his 20th unelected year. But Starmer, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, has declared otherwise.
“The prime minister’s position ultimately throws international law out of the window. Remarkable and hypocritical, one might think, for a lawyer and a government that claims an undying commitment to international law.”
— Natasha Hausdorff
Recognition is not meant to be a student union motion. Yet under him it’s exactly that.
Hausdorff nailed it:
“Everybody says is not how you run a legal system. It’s how you run a lynch.”
— Natasha Hausdorff
That is what this recognition amounts to: mob law in a Commons suit.
Who Benefits?
Not Israel. Not the Palestinians. And certainly not Britain. What Starmer has done is hand a propaganda victory to Hamas and Abbas.
Hamas is clear in its own charter:
“The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him!”
That is the “state” he has recognised. A group that still pays stipends to murderers and calls it welfare.
And Abbas? The “moderate” with a long record of Holocaust denial, terror funding, and threats to sue Britain over the Balfour Declaration.
“Providing him with an additional basis to pursue the UK is not in our national interest.”
— Natasha Hausdorff
Starmer has handed Abbas a shiny new legal toy.
Domestic Politics Masquerading as Foreign Policy
Why did he do it? Not for the sake of peace. Not for Britain’s national interest. But to appease his own backbenchers and five “independent” MPs who ran on Gaza-only platforms.
“This is plainly driven by politics—domestic politics, not national interest.”
— Natasha Hausdorff
This is foreign policy as student politics, designed to quiet the mob on Whitehall, not to shape the Middle East.
The Self-Harm Principle
Britain has a habit of turning its own policies into weapons against itself. The Chagos fiasco was one. Now Palestine joins the list.
“Apart from undermining the legal order and encouraging Hamas, this also has a damaging impact on the UK. It is ultimately self-harm.”
— Natasha Hausdorff
Starmer has pulled the trigger on Britain’s foot. Abbas’ lawyers will now sharpen their pencils.
Starmer’s Hidden Handshake
Just when you thought his recognition circus couldn’t get more farcical, the “Gaza files” land on the table. Documents seized in Gaza show that British Foreign Office staff sat down with Hamas officials in February 2022 – just months after the UK formally banned Hamas in its entirety as a terrorist organisation in November 2021.
And what did his man in Gaza do? Reassure them. According to the Hamas memo, the British diplomat promised Hamas that the proscription would not affect UK-funded projects and even added that “the decision to ban Hamas was made by the Home Office, not by the Foreign Office.” In other words, don’t worry lads, it’s just paperwork.
So while he struts around now, pretending recognition of Palestine is some great moral stand, his own diplomats were already breaking his country’s laws to keep Hamas sweet. He wants Israel to follow “international law” while Britain casually trashes its own terror laws.
The Foreign Office tried the oldest excuse in the book: this wasn’t a meeting, it was a “summons.” As if the difference between “we met them” and “they summoned us” somehow changes the fact that his envoy was sitting across the table from Hamas’s Interior Ministry officials and giving them political reassurance. Call it what you like — it’s still a handshake with terrorists.
Even Jewish groups in Britain were shocked. NGO Monitor said bluntly: “For years, the UK government insisted it does not talk to terrorists, but now we have the proof from these files that UK diplomatic staff did meet with Hamas officials.”The timing couldn’t be clearer — Hamas slaughtered Israelis on October 7, and three years later, his answer is to legitimise their fantasy state while quietly covering up his government’s backchanneling with them.
So which is it, Prime Minister? Either Hamas is a terrorist organisation Britain won’t touch — or it’s a partner your diplomats can meet in Gaza while you give them statehood from London. He can’t have it both ways. But hypocrisy is his only consistent policy.
Feeding the Lie
Recognition is not neutral. It is built on the blood libel of our time: that Israel is committing genocide.
David Hirsh spells out the academic climate:
“It is completely normal now to say Israel is committing genocide. If you challenge it, you’re accused of being complicit.” — David Hirsh
The Genocide Debunked study exposes the lie. More aid entered Gaza after October 7 than before. Infant mortality dropped. Life expectancy rose. There was no famine. But activists repeated the fiction until it became gospel. Starmer has now enshrined it in policy.
Empire Nostalgia
This is empire cosplay. Britain still imagines itself the arbiter of nations, the old schoolmaster with a ruler. In reality, it’s a post-imperial mid-size economy with delusions of grandeur.
Paul Johnson captured Jewish history best: the Jews are the most tenacious people in history, still in Hebron after every other civilisation has vanished. Yet in 2025 Starmer presumes to redraw Jewish destiny with a Commons vote.
This isn’t diplomacy. It’s pantomime.
Hamas’s Win, Britain’s Shame
Barry Shaw put it starkly: Hamas isn’t just Gaza, it’s the figurehead of Palestinian Jew-hatred.
Jonathan Sacerdoti showed how the BBC fuelled this circus, parroting Hamas lines on hospitals and famine. David Collier explained how the far-left and Islamists swim in the same sewer.
And now Starmer has given that sewer official recognition.
Bad Timing, Worse Optics
And just to top it all off, the timing. He made this grand gesture of “recognition” on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. While Jews worldwide prepare for prayers and reflection, Britain chose this moment to reward Hamas and hand Abbas a symbolic victory. If this was meant as diplomacy, the timing makes it look more like spite. It’s hard to imagine a gesture more tone-deaf — or more revealing of the true priorities behind his stunt.
Essex: The Logical Conclusion
So here we are. Britain, Australia, and Canada have recognised a fantasy. It will not end the war. It will not free the hostages. It will not feed a single Palestinian child. What it does is reward terror and punish Israel.
If Starmer insists on indulging in make-believe, fine. Let him recognise Palestine in Essex. Better transport links, more functioning government than Gaza, and the bins get collected.
Until then, his recognition remains what it is: a theatre of the absurd.
Never Again Is Now!
Silence destroyed Europe once. Ninety years ago, my country — Poland — was ground zero for one of history’s greatest crimes. Back then, the world stood by and watched. Albert Einstein put it best: “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
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Why Now
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Just to think what Sir Winston Churchill would say IF he saw u.k. right now.