I call on the UK to seize this moment - join the world majority and recognise the state of Palestine | Husam Zomlot

The UN conference on the two-state solution offers an historic opportunity for Britain: to stand against the continued erasure of my people

Husam Zomlot is the Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom

Future generations will look back on this moment as a turning point, when an unrelenting campaign was waged to erase the Palestinian people, and ask how this was allowed to happen.

How world leaders, faced with a choice between complicity and courage, enabled genocide. How they denied Palestinians our inalienable right to self-determination and return, and chose to support occupation over freedom, apartheid over equality. Today, after decades of appeasement and impunity, Israel has entrenched one of the longest military occupations in modern history, one that seeks not only to control Palestinian life but to extinguish it.

Husam Zomlot is the Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom