The sudden surge in recognition of the State of Palestine by various countries cannot be analyzed naively. It is certainly a significant political step, a belated echo of the heroic struggle of the Palestinian people, who for more than seven decades have been demanding their inalienable right to self-determination. But behind these official declarations lies a calculated maneuver: more than a genuine commitment to freedom and justice, they appear to be attempts to save the Zionist project from moral and political collapse.
The story is clear. Palestine was already recognized by the UN in 2012 as an observer state. Numerous countries, mainly in the Global South, have done so for decades. Why then this wave amid the televised genocide in Gaza? The answer is uncomfortable: the West perceives that Zionism, its colonial offspring, is going through the deepest crisis of its existence. The Israeli regime is being challenged in every corner of the planet, exposed as a genocidal machine that systematically violates international law.
Recognition today seeks not so much to redress the historical injustice committed against Palestine, but rather to extend a lifeline to a sinking system. Zionism fears its extinction as a political ideology, and its international sponsors rush to create the illusion that a “two-state solution” is still possible, when we all know that Israel made it unviable with settlements, annexations, and apartheid.
The Palestinian people are not fighting for diplomatic crumbs, but for their right to return to their homes, to live in equality, and to decide their future without the imposition of a racist ideology. We do not accept recognition being used as a smokescreen while the genocide continues. We do not accept a fragmented “Palestinian State,” without real sovereignty, while the existence of an apartheid regime is whitewashed.
The only just and lasting solution is the construction of a single, democratic and secular state in all of historic Palestine, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews coexist without colonial privileges or racial supremacy.
Recognizing Palestine should not be an empty act to protect Zionism, but the first step toward comprehensive justice: sanctions against the genocidaire, the dismantling of apartheid, and the return of all refugees to their land.
The world must choose: be complicit in the extinction of a people or accompany the birth of a free, just, and democratic Palestine?
Palestinian Union of Latin America – UPAL
September 25, 2025
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