Mayor Sadiq Khan’s renewed call for the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state is not only politically hollow, it’s dangerously misleading.
Symbolic declarations will not create a sovereign state, nor will they alleviate the suffering of Palestinians under Hamas’s tyranny or the Palestinian Authority’s corruption. To suggest otherwise is not leadership – it’s grandstanding.
Even more troubling is the Mayor’s silence on genuine atrocities, including the recent slaughter of Druze civilians by Syria’s regime. Why does he consistently find his voice to criticise Israel, yet say nothing when mass killings are carried out by those who share his faith? This is not a minor oversight, it’s a stark example of selective outrage.
The same Mayor who publicly dined in a London-based Palestinian restaurant has made no meaningful effort to engage with London’s Jewish community, even as antisemitic incidents surge and synagogue attendance drops due to fear. His silence on hate-filled marches and rising intimidation has left many Jews feeling abandoned in their own city.
Mayor Khan’s concern for human rights appears conditional. When the victims are Jewish or Druze, and the perpetrators are politically inconvenient to confront, he looks away. London deserves better.
We call on the Mayor to end his empty gestures and unequivocally condemn actual acts of terrorism and mass killing – including those by Hamas and brutal regimes across the region. Leadership demands moral clarity, not calculated silence. It’s time he seriously and meaningfully engaged with the Jewish Londoners he was elected to also represent.
