Petition for the United Kingdom to recognise the state of Palestine

I believe the state of Palestine should be recognised but don't understand why abyone thinks now is the time to do it, in the middle of atrocious violence while they are keeping 123 Israelis underground subjecting them to appalling violence??
If my kids are having a tantrum or fighting and screaming for something, even if I was going to give it to them, I would absolutely not let them have it until they calmed down and started behaving well again.
This just incentivises and rewards brutal horrific terrorism and no matter how much I sympathised with their fight against Israeli oppression, I could never support this now.

I cannot understand anyone who waves the Palestine flag or signs this petition at this point in time- we should be holding onto this to use as incentive to stop the violence.

It is never a waste of time to use peaceful and legitimate measures to stand up for what you believe to be right.

Every person who says they believe Palestine should be recognised as its own state, every voice expressing that the UK government is wrong not to take a different path, is one more person contributing to the pressure on the government to change its course, and one more person who can look back at this dark time and know that they did something to say that they did not support the horrors being unleashed on civilians in Palestine.

"Whoever of you sees wrong being committed, let him change it with his hand. If he is unable to do that, then with his tongue, and if he is unable to do that, then with his heart."

As above this is an utterly futile endeavour. The UK helped create the state of Israel and is just a running dog behind the US which props up the whole shitshow. The rights and wrongs notwithstanding, it all seems useless

This petition is a completely pointless waste of time.

UK foreign policy on Israel / Palestine will not change until US policy does. And that certainly isn’t going to happen any time soon.

Thank you

Saw that and wondered why the numbers are increasing quickly now- over 10,000 this evening alone. SM suddenly picking it up with actions of Ireland / Spain / Norway?
Appreciate it won’t get debated prior to election but still potential to send a clear message to next government.

Well it has reached the level for a debate in the HoC and it won’t be THIS government that debate it, will it.

It's been around since February 2024 at least and signatures are also heavily London centric.

UK Government response is in the link and the petition will change nothing at all.

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Thank you! That petition is really clocking up the the numbers.

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