A UK court has now accepted that Israeli citizenship is not automatic protection from persecution and its bad news for Team Keith! Right, so the UK has just granted refugee status to a Palestinian who holds Israeli citizenship, after the Home Office fought it for years and lost. That single decision removes a shortcut British politics has relied on for decades, which is that Israeli citizenship automatically ends any asylum conversation. It doesn’t anymore. And now that assumption is gone, a lot of confident noise from politicians banging on about immigration will sound a lot more alarmed, because the state has now accepted, on paper, that protection from Israel cannot be relied on in at least some cases under existing frameworks, or ones that until recently used to exist. But the bit that will be alarming them most is that this doesn’t stop at o ...