What Is Genocide and Is It Happening in Gaza?
- Protests against alleged genocide in Gaza have occurred weekly in Toronto since a first demonstration on May 28, 2025.
- The protests are a reaction to Israel’s military campaign launched in October 2023, which Gaza’s health ministry reports has resulted in the deaths of upwards of 54,000 Palestinians, with the number of child casualties exceeding 15,000.
- International figures like Brazil's President Lula have accused Israel of premeditated genocide, while rights groups cite starvation tactics and widespread displacement in the besieged enclave.
- The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant in November 2024 over alleged war crimes, while EU and Britain reconsider cooperation with Israel due to the conflict.
- The ongoing violence has sparked global calls for ceasefire, humanitarian access, and justice, though no court has yet ruled the conflict a genocide amid disputes about legal definitions and political claims.
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America Has Betrayed Palestinians. We Will Still Prevail.
Sarah Aziza We have returned the question of our future to ourselves. It will be guaranteed by no passport, protected by no brutal superpower. The post America Has Betrayed Palestinians. We Will Still Prevail. appeared first on The Nation.
Erasing Gaza: Genocide, Denial and “the Very Bedrock of Imperial Attitudes”
Noam Chomsky offered a rule of thumb for predicting the ‘mainstream’ response to crimes against humanity: ‘There is a way to calibrate reaction. If it’s a crime of somebody else, particularly an enemy, then we’re utterly outraged. If it’s our own crime, either comparable or worse, either it’s suppressed or denied. That works with almost 100 percent precision.’ (Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, The Politics of Genocide, Monthly Review Press, …


What’s Really Happening in Palestine
By Yanis Varoufakis and Mohammed El-Kurd / DiEM25 Israel is escalating its genocide in Gaza. Entire families are being wiped out, famine is spreading, and airstrikes are targeting shelters and schools. In the West Bank, killings and settler violence are surging as Israel tightens its grip on the territory. Yet despite these atrocities, international media coverage has diminished. While a handful of European governments have begun to question the…
The war in Palestine cannot of course be defined as a war, since it is the massacre of a defenceless people by an armed military power to the teeth from the West, including Italy. It is, therefore, a genocide. Yet, there is something that unites the main one, although it is certainly not the only one, responsible for this genocide, the Israeli criminal prime minister Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Zelensky. First of all, the fact that both ar…
No intervention means Gaza genocide continues
RIGHTS groups, lawyers and some governments are describing the Gaza war as “genocide” and calling for a ceasefire but Israel, created in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust of Jews, vehemently rejects the explosive term. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
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