US EditionWhat Is Genocide and Is It Happening in Gaza?
- A group called Grandmothers Against Genocide began protesting in Toronto on May 28, 2025, against the war in Gaza.
- Their demonstrations come in response to Israel’s ongoing military operations in Gaza since October 2023, which the health ministry there reports have resulted in the deaths of upwards of 54,000 Palestinians, with child casualties exceeding 15,000.
- The conflict started after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing over 1,200 people and taking approximately 250 hostages, prompting Israel's response aimed at Hamas's control of Gaza.
- Key international figures, including Brazil’s president Luiz Lula da Silva, have labeled Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal, while organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have also claimed that acts amounting to genocide are taking place, despite Israel’s firm rejection of these allegations.
- The protests and global accusations have increased calls for ceasefires, humanitarian access, and accountability, highlighting the conflict’s severe humanitarian impact and unresolved legal and moral questions.
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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…
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
As the term is increasingly used, historian Robert Hirsch believes that it does not allow for an expansion of the mobilization in defence of the Palestinian people and blurs the memory of the extermination of the Jews. However, he believes that an ethnic cleansing project is under way.
The Lemkin Institute condemns Israel, Europe, Canada, and the USA for Gaza Genocide
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention—an organization named after Raphael Lemkin, the jurist who first defined the very word genocide and campaigned against it—has issued a damning condemnation of Israel, the United States, Canada, and European...
There must be no double standards in war – neither in assessing victims nor in condemning crimes.
TRIBUNE. Memory policies, supposed to immunize our societies against the risk of mass crimes and genocide, are in crisis, believes a collective of historians in a forum in the "World". They emphasize that the qualification or not of genocide, which "does not belong exclusively to historians", does nothing to "the urgency of political action here and now".
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