This weekend, the UK, Canada, Australia, and Portugal all recognised the state of Palestine. France, Malta, and four other states are expected to formally recognise a Palestinian state today.
It is a watershed moment, albeit painfully overdue for Palestinians who particularly feel this about the UK. Over 100 years ago, the then-British foreign secretary penned the Balfour Declaration announcing British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”, with no mention of the Palestinians, triggering decades of conflict, bloodshed, and erasure.
