Anne Irfan teaches at UCL. She is the author of Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System and A Short History of the Gaza Strip.
By endorsing the Trump plan, Keir Starmer continues the long-standing British position of denying the Palestinian people’s right to national self-determination. The UK’s recognition of Palestine at the UN last month will go no further than its symbolic function. The Trump-Blair plan for Gaza is colonialism by another name.
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