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:

It’s truly breath-taking to watch Jonathan Ashworth rewrite history in real time. The collective Labour position since the start of the genocide was to reject a ceasefire, whipping MPs against it while Gaza burned.

Now they claim to have “always wanted a ceasefire.” This isn’t… pic.twitter.com/igDQ7dQnZq

— The Muslim Vote (@themuslimvoteuk) October 9, 2025

As Omar El Akkad said:

one day, everyone will have always been against this.

The government

Former Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth said this:

Jonathan Ashworth: “I’ve wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years”

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023. pic.twitter.com/lipcXlszHy

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) October 9, 2025

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

Your government provided surveillance flights for Israel during the full 2 years of this genocide and refused to stop arm exports.

Your fake ‘relief’ is insulting to us all. https://t.co/LjsA0i2FYj

— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) October 9, 2025

In October 2023, Keir Starmer argued fervently against a ceasefire in Gaza even as the Israeli government’s genocidal intentions were being made clear. https://t.co/dBz2rEwkd9 pic.twitter.com/886pvIBlBL

— Declassified UK (@declassifiedUK) October 9, 2025

Starmer infamously said the following:

The public comment by Starmer that truly matters.

He gave support to Netanyahu 🇮🇱 for genocide.

“Israel 🇮🇱 does have that right” to cut off water and power from Gaza 🇵🇸

Starmer is guilty.

Don’t let anyone forget.pic.twitter.com/488zRLF3KN

— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) November 14, 2024

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:

Zip it, loser.
You tried to fuck it up with your recognition of a Palestinian state at the height of negotiations to appease the hard left of your deranged party. https://t.co/EmXGsV6Mu2

— Dan Wootton (@danwootton) October 9, 2025

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:

It’s possible there was some behind the scenes choreography. But if there wasn’t, the fact Britain opted for unilateral Palestinian recognition at a time when the negotiations were at such a sensitive stage is even more inexplicable and reckless. https://t.co/n8rOaKmrFg

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) October 9, 2025

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:

‘Trump definitely deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.’

Shelagh Fogarty is aware of the ‘injustices he is carrying out in his own country’, but thinks the US president has achieved something on Gaza. pic.twitter.com/3bbyXnjqJp

— LBC (@LBC) October 9, 2025

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

I’ve watched a man being burned alive, kids carrying parts of other kids in a backpack and men and women shredded to pieces you absolute ghoul.

Fuck you, Shelagh Fogarty. Fuck you. https://t.co/vqfSfM7b85

— Liam Stokes-Massey (@PencilCraftsman) October 4, 2025

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:

Be prepared for the wave of “why are pro-Palestine groups still protesting? there’s a ceasefire!” takes, because the goal was never solely a ceasefire, it’s dismantling the Zionist apartheid entity and decolonizing Palestine

— Anita Zsurzsan 🇵🇸 🕎 (@iamjourjean) October 9, 2025

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.

There’s no doubt a deal that leaves Israel occupying Gaza and provides no guarantees that they won’t immediately return to genocide is a nightmare deal but my God do these people need some relief from the pain and starvation and death. https://t.co/ZQ1Qo4fN9l

— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) October 9, 2025

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