{"id":84503,"date":"2025-07-30T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84503"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:03:54","slug":"starmer-did-not-recognise-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/30\/starmer-did-not-recognise-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer did NOT recognise Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have issued this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/30\/starmers-actions-on-palestine-were-unforgivable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">morning's blog post on Starmer's decisions on Palestine<\/a> as a video this evening, with a poll attached.<\/p>\n<p>As we said in the description of this video:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Keir Starmer has not recognised Palestine. Despite media spin, he\u2019s placed conditions, granted Israel a veto, and ignored the suffering of Gazans. In this video, I explain how his policy is a betrayal \u2013 of truth, of justice, and of peace. This is not foreign policy. It\u2019s appeasement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Watch, share, and if you\u2019re moved, please write to your MP using the transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/30\/starmers-actions-on-palestine-were-unforgivable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and link in the original video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GeJZmDuTxPQ?si=f6KdNtoyx41L9SGj\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The transcript is, of course, in the original blog post.<\/p>\n<p>This is the poll:<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-162\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What do you think about Starmer's announcement on Palestine?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-162-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Did Starmer get this badly wrong, as I suggest? <small>(96%, 408 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 96%;\" title=\"Did Starmer get this badly wrong, as I suggest? (96% | 408 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Was Starmer right to act as he did? <small>(2%, 8 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 2%;\" title=\"Was Starmer right to act as he did? (2% | 8 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Would you rather we as a country avoided the whole issue? <small>(1%, 5 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 1%;\" title=\"Would you rather we as a country avoided the whole issue? (1% | 5 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Do you not know what to think? <small>(1%, 5 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 1%;\" title=\"Do you not know what to think? (1% | 5 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total Voters: <strong>426<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_162_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"7798ea7c10\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-162-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have issued this morning&#8217;s blog post on Starmer&#8217;s decisions on Palestine as a video this evening, with a poll attached. As we said in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/30\/starmer-did-not-recognise-palestine\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,14,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-corruption","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84518,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84503\/revisions\/84518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}