Mubashar Nadeem
It has become increasingly clear to any impartial observer that Israel’s ongoing campaign in Gaza is not aimed at eliminating Hamas but at systematically exterminating and ethnically cleansing the Palestinian people of the besieged enclave. The brutality unfolding before the eyes of the world is not simply a military operation; it is an orchestrated campaign of collective punishment targeting an entire population that has been trapped for decades under siege.
The horrific trajectory began in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attacks. Israel’s response was swift, indiscriminate, and overwhelmingly disproportionate. Civilians, including children, became the prime victims. Homes, schools, hospitals, and refugee camps were reduced to rubble in an assault that bore the hallmarks of state-engineered retribution rather than counterterrorism. In the years that have followed, independent observers, rights groups, and humanitarian actors have consistently described Israel’s actions not merely as violations of international law but as acts of genocide.
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The UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry recently validated what many had long feared. Its latest report openly charged Israel’s political and military leadership — including the prime minister, president, and former defence minister — with inciting genocide. This was not the language of speculation or rhetoric; it was a carefully constructed legal determination grounded in international law and backed by extensive evidence. The Commission’s words shattered the last vestiges of plausible deniability that Tel Aviv’s supporters had been hiding behind.
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Nor is this conclusion isolated. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Médecins Sans Frontières, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and the International Association of Genocide Scholars have all sounded the alarm. To dismiss such a chorus of respected, credible voices as biased is not only intellectually dishonest but morally bankrupt. The evidence is overwhelming: the scale of civilian killings, the deliberate destruction of infrastructure necessary for survival, and the creation of conditions designed to induce famine all point toward genocidal intent.
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The tragic irony lies in the fact that those who claim historical suffering as a shield are now inflicting upon others what was once inflicted upon them. The descendants of Holocaust survivors, a people who suffered humanity’s darkest crimes, now stand accused of perpetrating a modern-day holocaust against Palestinians. This shocking inversion of history highlights the moral collapse of a state that claims to exist as a refuge from oppression but has become an oppressor itself.
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Some argue that the seeds of this violence were sown during the Nakba of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homeland. Yet today’s holocaust in Gaza is not a distant historical interpretation; it is unfolding live on television and mobile screens. The images of children pulled from under the rubble, toddlers starved by deliberate blockades, and families wiped out in a single airstrike are irrefutable proof of calculated state brutality. These scenes render hollow Israel’s repeated denials and claims of “self-defence.”
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There must be no further hesitation in naming what is happening: genocide. The slogan “never again” cannot be reserved for one community while being denied to another. Those who repeatedly remind the world of Europe’s fascist crimes against Jews must now find the courage to oppose the fascist crimes of Israel against Palestinians. If international norms are to hold meaning, the perpetrators must be brought to justice. Just as the Nuremberg trials held Nazi leaders accountable, the International Criminal Court and the United Nations must prosecute Israel’s leaders for crimes against humanity.
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The international community must also escalate its pressure through practical measures. Israel must face a comprehensive UN-backed embargo — economic, military, and diplomatic — until it ceases its campaign of extermination. The precedent exists: apartheid-era South Africa was isolated by the world until it dismantled its racist system. Anything less would expose a hierarchy of human rights in which Palestinians are deemed disposable. Furthermore, states that continue to fund and arm Israel, despite clear evidence of atrocities, cannot escape culpability. They are not passive observers but active accomplices, their governments complicit in sustaining genocide.
The genocide in Gaza is not only a Palestinian tragedy; it is a test for humanity. If the world fails to respond, it signals that international law, human rights, and moral conscience have been reduced to hollow slogans. The time for selective outrage is over. Justice demands that the global community rise against Israel’s crimes with the same resolve once shown against fascism. Anything less would betray the promise of “never again” and condemn future generations to inherit a world where genocide remains a tool of statecraft.
