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The death of 17-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Assaf, from northern Gaza, as a result of the famine and humanitarian crisis in the Strip, July 2024. (Hossam Shabat\/Wikimedia Commons\/ CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
I<\/strong>srael\u2019s top human rights group B\u2019Tselem has finally declared<\/a> that Israel is committing genocide, as has<\/a> the Israel-based Physicians for Human Rights.<\/p>\n The Israeli organizations join Amnesty International<\/a>, Human Rights Watch<\/a>, U.N. human rights experts<\/a>, and the overwhelming majority<\/a> of leading authorities on the subject of genocide in their conclusion.<\/p>\n The debate is over. The Israel apologists lost. And we are seeing this reflected in mainstream discourse.<\/p>\n Pop megastar Ariana Grande has started speaking out<\/a> in support of Gaza, telling her social media followers that \u201cstarving people to death is a red line.\u201d This is a new threshold. Opposing Israel\u2019s genocide is now the most mainstream as it has ever been.<\/p>\n MSNBC just ran a piece explicitly titled \u201cIsrael is starving Gaza. And the U.S. is complicit.<\/a>,\u201d featuring a segment with the virulently pro-Israel Morning Joe slamming the mass atrocity.<\/p>\n CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer, himself a former AIPAC employee<\/a>, has done a 180 and is now raking Israel over the coals<\/a> on the air for its deliberately engineered starvation campaign.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/em> finally overcame its phobia of the g-word<\/a> with an op-ed titled \u201cI\u2019m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019re now seeing notoriously Zionist swamp monsters in the Democratic Party like Barack Obama<\/a>, Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>, Cory Booker<\/a> and Amy Klobuchar<\/a> changing their tune and attacking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump for their joint genocide project in Gaza, with increasingly forceful pushback from some on the right like Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>\u00a0 (who on Tuesday became the first Republican member of Congress to call it genocide<\/a>.)<\/p>\n As Western pundits, politicians and celebrities suddenly pivot to denouncing Israel\u2019s genocidal atrocities after two years of silence, it\u2019s hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were being told that saying \u201cdeath to the IDF\u201d is a hate crime.<\/p>\n People who\u2019ve been staring at this genocide from the beginning have been asking the entire time, what is it going to take? What will it take for our society to stop sleepwalking through inane trivialities and vapid distractions and start opposing the holocaust of our day?<\/p>\n Raining military explosives on a giant concentration camp<\/a> packed full of children wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Burning children alive<\/a> wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Systematically destroying Gaza\u2019s entire healthcare infrastructure<\/a>?\u2014?up to and including entering hospitals they\u2019ve attacked and destroying individual pieces of medical equipment one by one?\u2014?wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Killing more journalists than were killed<\/a> in both World Wars plus the U.S. Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Yugoslav Wars, the War in Afghanistan, and the ongoing war in Ukraine wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n The systemic rape<\/a> and torture<\/a> of prisoners wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n IDF soldiers routinely sharing photos and videos<\/a> of themselves mockingly dressing in the clothes of dead and displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead and displaced Palestinian children wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Israeli officials<\/a> openly expressing genocidal intent<\/a> for the people of Gaza wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n The U.S. president and Israeli prime minister openly declaring<\/a> their goal of the complete ethnic cleansing of a Palestinian territory wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Field testing new weapons of war<\/a> on Palestinians like they\u2019re guinea pigs in a laboratory wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Leaving countless civilians to slowly suffocate or die of dehydration trapped under the rubble<\/a> of bombed buildings wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Creating an AI system to ensure that suspected Hamas fighters are bombed when they\u2019re at home with their children and naming it \u201cWhere\u2019s Daddy?\u201d<\/a> wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Using Palestinians as human shields<\/a> wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Burying injured civilians alive<\/a> with bulldozers wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n The IDF admitting<\/a> to running a popular Telegram channel called \u201c72 Virgins\u201d which posted extremely gory and sadistic snuff films<\/a> of people in Gaza being butchered by Israeli forces wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n IDF snipers routinely shooting children in the head and chest<\/a> throughout the Gaza Strip wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n The IDF flying drones which play the sounds of crying babies<\/a> at night in order to lure out hiding civilians to murder them wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n IDF troops telling the Israeli press<\/a> that they\u2019re being ordered to massacre starving civilians seeking food from aid sites wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Israeli snipers targeting different body parts<\/a> of starving civilians on designated days \u2014 leg day, head day, genitals day, etc. \u2014 wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Far right Israeli citizens setting up blockades<\/a> to stop aid trucks<\/a> from entering Gaza while they enjoyed parties and barbecues<\/a> at the blockade sites wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Using lies and propaganda<\/a> to dismantle the aid system<\/a> for bringing essential food and life-supporting supplies into Gaza, to replace it with a U.S.\/Israeli op<\/a>where aid seekers are massacred every single day, wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Using siege warfare to deliberately starve Gaza<\/a> for the previous 22 months wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n