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Establishment ghouls celebrate ceasefire they opposed

Following the announcement of a ceasefire, establishment figures who opposed Palestinian liberation are celebrating the very thing they stood against:

As Omar El Akkad said:

one day, everyone will have always been against this.

The government

Former Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth said this:

This sort of thing goes all the way to the top in Labour, as the Canary and Declassified UK highlighted:


Starmer infamously said the following:


Starmer was a human rights lawyer too, so he understood the implication of what he was saying here.

The media

While the media may not have transparently opposed a ceasefire, elements of it certainly did all they could to slander and inhibit Palestine’s supporters in the West.

Dan Wootton expressed a sentiment which many in the right-wing media sphere are sharing:

The ceasefire is happening mere weeks after the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and others recognised Palestinian statehood. These depraved right wingers want you to believe the ceasefire happened despite global opinion shifting against Israel, rather than because of it.

Some, like the Mail’s Dan Hodges, are suggesting the ceasefire is the result of painstaking statescraft, and not just America finally putting its foot down and reigning in a rogue client state:

Shelagh Fogarty acknowledged the authoritarianism Trump is inflicting at home, and yet she thinks he should receive the Nobel Peace Prize anyway – all because he’s (potentially) ending a genocide he could have ended with a phone call 9 months ago:


Fogarty is another one who opposed the opposition to the genocide but now wants to act like she gives a shit:

Maybe she should get the Nobel Peace Prize too?

The wretched Julia Hartley-Brewer tried to claim the moral high ground while denying a genocide and slandering those who stood against it:

So if this Trump peace plan does go ahead and Hamas frees the hostages while Israel ends the bombing, withdraws the IDF to agreed lines and sends in more aid, then the protesters on our streets will be happy, right?

They’ll end their marches and protests, right?

They’ll be cheering for peace, right?

They’ll stop attacking Britain Jews accusing them of responsibility for the “genocide” that isn’t happening, right?

Because it’s the innocent children in Gaza they care about, right?

Right…?

In response to messages like the above, Anita Zsurzsan said:

Still a long way to go

As of right now, Gaza is levelled, it’s residents are displaced, and Israel is violating what was supposed to be a ceasefire (as they have done many times in the past).

When people said ‘Palestine will be free’, they didn’t just mean from the genocide, they meant from the siege of Gaza which began in 2005; they meant from the settlers who are colonising the West Bank; they meant from the decades of tyranny which began with the Nakba in 1948, and they mean from whatever Israel and America have planned for the future.

In the meantime, it is at least refreshing to see some signs of hope.


Featured image via ITV / Ilya Grigorik (Wikimedia) / Jaber Jehad Badwan (Wikimedia)

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.