> “How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal?”, Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate
Introduction
The brutal truth about the tragedy in Palestine has long been buried under a mountain of Western hypocrisy, Zionist propaganda, and media obfuscation. While headlines in Western media scream about “40 Israeli hostages” and rising “antisemitism,” they conveniently ignore a century-long genocide of the Indigenous Palestinian people, a slow-motion holocaust that has claimed the lives of over 2.7 million Palestinians through a combination of violence and deprivation.
This genocide, backed and funded by Western powers, continues under our collective watch. The world must act, urgently, decisively, and morally.
Who Are the Palestinians?
The 15 million Indigenous Palestinians comprise:
7 million exiled refugees, forcibly denied return to lands their ancestors have inhabited for over 4,000 years.
5.6 million pre-war Occupied Palestinians, now likely reduced to around 5 million after continuous bombardment, siege, and deprivation.
2.1 million Palestinian citizens of Israel, who live under a system of over 65 race-based, apartheid-style discriminatory laws, with token voting rights but entrenched third-class status.
Apartheid Israel’s policy is chillingly simple: take the land, erase the people.
Three Major Waves of Ethnic Cleansing
The Zionist project has followed a clear trajectory of ethnic cleansing:
1. The Nakba (1948)
800,000 Palestinians expelled
15,000 killed
530 villages destroyed
Over 120 mosques razed
2. The Naksa (1967)
Entirety of historic Palestine and parts of Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria seized
400,000 Arabs expelled
3. The Gaza Genocide (2023–2025)
2 million Gazans displaced again and again
Approximately 600,000 killed, according to rigorous epidemiological estimates, including:
393,000 children
51,000 women
113,000 men
These are not statistics. These are crimes against humanity.
Apartheid Israel’s Rejection of International Law
Israel, emboldened by the U.S., U.K., EU, and Australia, flouts international law with impunity, including:
The Genocide Convention
The Apartheid Convention
The Fourth Geneva Convention
The Rome Statute (International Criminal Court)
Multiple UN resolutions
In stark contrast, international reaction has ranged from muted to complicit. The global standard that ended South African apartheid is being selectively withheld.
The Gaza Massacre: A Statistical Reckoning
By the ceasefire of January 20, 2025, the Lancet-published estimates showed:
> 553,000 Gazans dead, 23% of the population
Including:
393,000 children
51,000 women
113,000 men
This is not just genocide. This is industrial-scale mass murder, enabled, funded, and whitewashed by the very countries that claim to uphold human rights.
The Solution Is Clear and Simple
The world must stop pretending the solution is complicated.
One Principle. One Demand:
> Grant full human rights to all Palestinians. Now.
As was done after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, the world must immediately adopt Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all its enablers. That non-violent global resistance helped dismantle South African apartheid. The same must be done today.
Why the Silence?
As I wrote to Australian MPs and media editors:
> “The world must demand that US-backed Apartheid Israel grant full rights to Indigenous Palestinians or face global BDS. This approach worked post-Sharpeville. After 553,000 Gazan deaths, 23% of their population, it’s more than justified.”
But silence continues to reign, a silence soaked in complicity.
A Personal Reflection
I knew apartheid was wrong even in the 1960s. My partner, later my wife for 52 years, was a Brown Asian Muslim from a newly independent country. We had to avoid travel to apartheid South Africa and the U.S. Deep South to avoid humiliation or imprisonment. And yet today, the West embraces apartheid, not in shame but with pride, when the victims are Palestinian.
Conclusion: There Must Be a Reckoning
There must be international trials, reparations, and accountability. Western silence must end. The child-killing, genocide-committing Apartheid regime must be sanctioned, not shielded.
> “Silence kills. Silence is complicity. The world must speak now, or be forever shamed as an accomplice to genocide.”
Call to Action
End the occupation
Dismantle apartheid
Restore Palestinian rights
Impose global BDS
Demand justice
Until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea, the conscience of humanity remains under siege.
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