Time to Admit It—This Is a Global Genocide Against the Palestinians

The true horror of Gaza lies not only in Israeli crimes, but in how the entire world has united in enabling and legitimizing genocide.

Palestinian mothers and their children are up against the world.

What we are witnessing in Gaza is not merely Israel's war against Palestinians. It is a global genocide, orchestrated through an intricate web of complicity that spans continents, ideologies, and economic systems. Every bomb that falls, every child that dies, every family that is erased from existence is made possible by a vast international infrastructure of enablement.

Multi-Polar Genocide

The machinery of this genocide operates through countless channels. Turkey, despite Erdogan's theatrical denunciations, continues to pump oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, feeding Israel's war machine. China, proclaimed leader of the Global South, remains Israel's largest Asian trading partner and third largest globally, providing the economic lifeline that sustains the siege. In March this year, China's ambassador to Israel, Xiao Junzheng, stated that "The war is not the theme of Israel-China bilateral relations." Indeed, China has been careful to call the genocide either a 'war' or 'humanitarian crisis', systematically avoiding any reference to genocide. India, once a beacon of non-alignment and itself brutally colonized by European powers, now supplies military technology and maintains robust defense cooperation with the occupying power. Most shamefully, Indian nationals have joined Israeli forces as foreign fighters, participating in the very crimes that their own ancestors suffered under colonial rule.

The Western imperial core performs its expected role with ruthless efficiency. The United States provides shiploads of military aid while wielding its UN Security Council veto to shield Israel from accountability. Germany, forever haunted by its genocidal past, now enables a new genocide through weapons sales and diplomatic protection. France supplies military equipment while President Macron speaks of Israel's "right to defend itself" against children and civilians. Britain provides intelligence sharing and military components while maintaining its historic role as the architect of Palestinian dispossession.

Even nations that position themselves as neutral reveal their complicity. Ireland, which claims solidarity with Palestinian struggle, allows its airspace and Shannon Airport to serve as a transit hub for American weapons shipments destined for Israel. The Netherlands, seat of the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, simultaneously provides critical weapons components and NATO cover for the very crimes its courts are meant to adjudicate. Switzerland, eternal neutral, reveals the hollowness of its proclaimed neutrality by purchasing Israeli drones bombing Gaza while cutting UNRWA funding during the genocide—transforming the supposed guardian of international law into an active participant in Palestinian extermination.

Arab Slaves to Empire

But perhaps most devastating is the capitulation of the Arab world – rulers who have transformed from the fierce anti-colonial leaders of yesterday into the servile clients of today. Saudi Arabia continues its normalization trajectory even as Gaza burns, prioritizing Vision 2030 and Western investment over Palestinian blood. The UAE openly celebrates its "Abraham Accords" while Palestinian children are crushed by Israeli weapons acquired through Emirati-facilitated arms deals. Egypt, once the beating heart of Arab nationalism under Nasser, now enforces Israel's siege of Gaza while President Sisi enriches himself through Western patronage. Jordan's King Abdullah speaks of Palestinian rights while hosting Israeli military exercises on his territory and defending the genocidal entity against Iranian missiles.

This is the saddening reality of Arab leadership in the 21st century: a collection of dictators, monarchs, and strong weakmen who have traded their people's dignity for Western security guarantees and personal wealth that sustains their Epstein-style regimes—what Sina Rahmani aptly terms 'pedocracies.' Where once stood Egypt's Nasser, Algeria's Boumediene, and other anti-colonial giants, we now find Mohammad bin Salman, Sisi, and other compradors whose loyalty lies not with their people but with their imperial patrons.

Algeria’s Houari Boumédiène.

The broader Global South, despite decades of rhetoric about multi-polarity and South-South cooperation, reveals its own moral bankruptcy. Brazil under Lula offers symbolic criticism while maintaining trade relations with Israel and simultaneously keeping socialist, anti-imperialist Venezuela out of BRICS. South Africa, birthplace of the anti-apartheid struggle, brings cases against Israel to international courts while continuing economic partnerships with the occupying power. Russia, proclaimed leader of the emerging multi-polar order, maintains military cooperation with Israel and praises it effusively, even as it positions itself as America's great rival while Israel actively supports Ukraine’s war against Russia.

The Curse of Gaza will Haunt the Whole World

What we are witnessing is the complete collapse of the anti-colonial movement that once offered hope to the world's oppressed. The Bandung Conference of 1955, which united the Global South against imperialism and racism, feels like ancient history. The Non-Aligned Movement, once a beacon of independence from both Western capitalism and Soviet socialism, has become a hollow shell, its members competing for Western approval rather than challenging Western domination.

There is no communist pushback as there once was when the Soviet Union, despite its own contradictions, provided material support to liberation movements worldwide. There is no robust Third World solidarity of the kind that once isolated apartheid South Africa and supported Vietnamese resistance. The promised "multi-polar world" reveals itself as merely a reshuffling of imperial hierarchies rather than their abolition.

Instead, we have a world where supposed enemies collaborate in genocide while performing antagonism for domestic consumption. Where nations that claim to champion human rights enable the systematic extermination of an entire people. Where the international legal order – the UN, the ICJ, the ICC – proves utterly impotent in the face of coordinated imperial will.

This is not just about Palestine, though Palestinian suffering is both the symptom and the test of our collective humanity. This is about the revelation that beneath the surface of geopolitical competition and ideological difference lies a shared commitment among ruling elites worldwide to the preservation of a global order built on violence, extraction, and the subordination of the many to the few.

The Palestinians have become the sacrificial offering on the altar of this global consensus. Their genocide serves as both punishment for their refusal to accept subjugation and warning to others who might dare resist. Every government that enables this slaughter – whether through direct military support, economic assistance, diplomatic cover, trade, or simple silence – is declaring its allegiance to a world order that views certain peoples as expendable.

The Global Genocide Against the Palestinians

What Gaza reveals is not just the cruelty of Israeli settler-colonialism, but the bankruptcy of our entire international system. A system where trade flows and weapons shipments matter more than human life. Where economic interests trump moral obligations. Where the powerful coordinate globally to crush the powerless locally.

The Palestinians and the axis of resistance stand alone not because they lack global sympathy – millions march in their support – but because the structures of power, from Washington to Amsterdam, from Brussels to Riyadh, have determined that their survival threatens the stability of an order built on their destruction.

This is the true horror of our moment: not just that genocide is happening, but that virtually the entire world is actively participating in making it possible. We are witnessing not just the destruction of Gaza, but the moral collapse of human civilization itself.

The question that haunts us is not whether this genocide will end – all genocides eventually do – but what kind of world will remain when the rubble is cleared and the dead are counted. A world that can coordinate so efficiently in the service of annihilation has revealed something fundamental about its character. And that revelation should terrify us all.

- Karim

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