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Gaza, Genocide, and the Charade of Recognition

Gaza Today

Britain, Australia, and Canada have today confirmed that they are formally recognising a Palestinian state, with other European countries including France, Belgium, and Portugal set to follow suit.

Europe, that cesspool of tin-pot imperialists, is now parading a sickening hypocrisy with many declaring that they will ‘recognise’ a Palestinian state. This is hollow verbiage, as if recognition means anything while Gaza, having been bombed into rubble, now has its population literally being starved to death

This isn’t serious politics. It’s PR. It’s virtue signalling. It is a desperate attempt to look moral without doing anything real, while Palestinians are dying in their thousands. Let’s be clear: these same governments armed Israel, defended it diplomatically, and routinely echoed its propaganda at every turn. They created and continue to protect this settler-colonial ethno-state, and now they offer symbolic gestures. Recognition means nothing when you supply the weapons of genocide.

In Britain, Germany, and elsewhere, European governments are banning protests, arresting activists; misusing terrorism legislation, yet they dare to talk about recognition. Recognising a Palestinian state during genocide is like giving condolences to someone while you’re still tightening the noose.

The so-called two-state solution is dead. It always was. It is a fig leaf for imperial control, a mechanism to preserve Israeli dominance while pretending to care about Palestinians.  Zionism cannot make peace. It is a settler-colonial ideology, built on displacement, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid. From the Nakba to Gaza, the goal has always been: maximum land, minimum Palestinians.

Palestinians can’t negotiate peace with a system designed around their erasure. Real peace does not come from symbolic recognition. It comes from decolonisation, the dismantling of the Zionist state, ending apartheid, and the return of all Palestinian refugees. One democratic, secular state in all of historic Palestine is the only solution. At the root of this horror lies Imperialism. British imperialism created the Zionist entity. US imperialism sustains it. To frame the problem as a moral question alone is to completely bypass any possibility of progress; both the causes and solutions are political and ideological. Palestine will be free only when imperialism is buried. And we must be its gravediggers…

NB: This article is based on the transcript of a recent Tik Tok video that we published which has been updated and amended.

Ian Foster

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3 responses to “Gaza, Genocide, and the Charade of Recognition”

  1. LESTER avatar
    LESTER

    —I am Israel. I never miss a chance to claim victimhood while inflicting violence.

    In 1947, the United Nations handed me more than half of someone else’s land. A gift I didn’t earn, from colonial powers who didn’t own it. I accepted. My neighbors objected. I called it war—and in the chaos, I began my cleansing. Over 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes—some fled, yes—but many were forced out at gunpoint, their villages razed, their names erased.

    Then I planted pine trees over the ruins—to hide the memory. Forests where homes once stood. Parks over cemeteries. I made it green so the world wouldn’t see the black underneath. I called it “reforestation.” They called it erasure.

    I am Israel. I have never chosen peace—only dominance.

    In 1967, I launched a pre-emptive war and seized Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and Sinai. I claimed it was for security. I held onto it for power. I built settlements, one by one, choking Palestinian towns. International law said it was illegal. I ignored it. My map grew. Their freedom shrank.

    I am Israel. I could have ended the occupation. Many times. But I always said no.

    In 2000, at Camp David, I offered a patchwork of disconnected enclaves surrounded by walls, checkpoints, and soldiers. I called it peace. Palestinians walked away. I called them extremists. Then I built a wall, not on my border—but deep in theirs. I called it security. They called it theft.

    I am Israel. I glorify militarism. I raise children to believe they are chosen.

    My textbooks erase Palestine. My soldiers patrol streets with rifles pointed at teenagers. My media justifies bombings. My politicians joke about flattening Gaza. I send airstrikes to refugee camps, schools, and hospitals. Then I say they were human shields.

    I am Israel. I elected Netanyahu. Again and again.

    Not once, by mistake. But knowingly. I voted for leaders who vowed to crush the Palestinians, to expand settlements, to never allow a Palestinian state. My ministers speak of “the Arabs” as a demographic threat. My settlers burn olive trees. My mobs chant “Death to Arabs.” I call it patriotism.

    I am Israel. I speak of democracy—but deny it to millions under my control.

    I rule over millions who cannot vote in the country that controls their lives. I build roads they cannot drive on. I issue permits for them to breathe, to move, to live. I bomb Gaza, then seal it off and say it’s their fault. I say I left Gaza—but I control its air, sea, and borders. I say they are free—then I starve them.

    I am Israel. I demand recognition—but give none in return.

    I demand that Palestinians accept me as a Jewish state—while refusing to even say the word “Nakba.” I ignore the homes, lands, and history of those I displaced. I hold their keys in museums, not their hands. I deny the refugees their right to return. I make laws that call them “absentees,” even when they’re just over the hill.

    I am Israel. I cry antisemitism—when what I fear is accountability.

    I call any critic a hater. I blur the line between Judaism and Zionism, using one to shield the crimes of the other. I weaponize history to excuse apartheid. I manipulate trauma to justify conquest. I say “Never again”—but let it happen to others, by my own hand.

    I am Israel. I will never be secure.

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  2. Soliman avatar
    Soliman

    Once again, the CCP is on the money. Spot on take, shukrun.

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  3. The Ruling Class is Running Scared – Class Consciousness Project avatar
    The Ruling Class is Running Scared – Class Consciousness Project

    […] This internal tyranny comes amid Britain’s recent recognition of a Palestinian state, an act of cynical hypocrisy. This recognition is not justice but performative virtue signalling: a staged display of compassion that conceals and preserves complicity. By affirming a ‘state’ that exists only in diplomatic rhetoric, Starmer’s government attempts to present itself as humane while evading responsibility for Britain’s historical and ongoing role in the dispossession and elimination of the Palestinian people. It is politics of gesture over substance, where recognition costs nothing and changes nothing. Meanwhile, Britain continues to facilitate and diplomatically support the perpetrators of genocide, rendering its recognition a sham. We have covered the British recognition of a Palestinian state in a recent article: Gaza, Genocide, and the Charade of Recognition. […]

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