We stand firmly against injustice in all its forms. Nothing can justify the current war crimes committed by Israel in occupied Palestine. Equally, nothing can excuse the continued support offered by other nations to this apartheid regime. If you believe in human rights, dignity, and justice, then we urge you to boycott this rogue state. Silence is complicity, do what’s right.
The world calls for peace, yet in Gaza, peace remains an illusion. Despite international appeals and the supposed ceasefire, Israel continues to impose a fascist and suffocating blockade — sealing the borders, throttling the entry of food, medicine, and fuel, and turning survival itself into an act of resistance for over two million Palestinians.
A Siege That Never Ended
Since 2007, Gaza has existed under one of the most prolonged and punitive blockades in modern history. Israel controls every crossing point — from airspace to sea access — effectively dictating what enters and exits the enclave. Humanitarian agencies, including the UN and Red Cross, have repeatedly warned that these restrictions amount to collective punishment, a direct violation of international humanitarian law. Israel appears to take pride in, or at least shows disregard for, its actions against children, women, and the elderly
Today, as hospitals run out of essential medicines and food insecurity reaches catastrophic levels, Israel’s continued closure of Gaza’s borders defies both the moral and legal norms that should govern states in times of war and peace.
A Ceasefire in Words, Not in Deeds
The term “ceasefire” suggests a pause in hostilities — yet Israel continues to kill Palestinians. Israeli strikes, sniper fire, and raids persist under the banner of “security operations.” Each act erodes the credibility of ceasefire agreements and exposes the asymmetry of power: a population without sovereignty or military capacity facing one of the most advanced armies in the world.
Human rights observers have called this not peace, but management of Israeli occupation by siege.
Control as an Ideology
At the core of these apartheid policies lies a deeper political mindset — one rooted in control and dominance rather than coexistence. Israeli leaders defend the blockade as a security necessity, but its long-term effects reveal a different purpose: to fragment Palestinian society, crush self-determination, and enforce dependency on the very state that denies their freedom.
This fascist logic of domination — separating “deserving” and “undeserving” populations, denying civilians the essentials of life — echoes the dark historical ideologies of the Nazis that humanity once vowed never to repeat.
The Human Cost
In Gaza today, children starve not for lack of food in the world, but because trucks are stopped by Israel at a border. Patients die not because medicine doesn’t exist, but because it’s withheld by Israeli occupation forces. Families bury loved ones not from natural causes, but from deliberate Israeli policy choices.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is not a natural disaster — it is an Israeli-made siege, enforced daily by racist policies that disregard international law and basic human decency.
The Path Forward
True peace will not come from airstrikes or racist Israeli checkpoints. It will come only when the blockade ends, when borders open for food and medicine, when Palestinians can live with dignity and autonomy. Until then, every ceasefire will remain a fragile pause in an ongoing tragedy — a wound that the world can no longer afford to ignore.
The world must awaken to the reality of Gaza and take decisive action to end Israel’s fascist policies, which perpetuate the inhumane suffering of Palestinians living under systemic discrimination and blockade. Justice demands that the international community no longer remain silent in the face of such enduring human tragedy.
Demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza in a demonstration in Berlin (6/1/2023 Anatolia)
The German government’s initial response to the events of October 7 was to suspend financial aid to the “Palestinian people.” Despite the strangeness of the situation, when this government targets the “Palestinian people” with its decision, and not a specific political faction or governmental or non-governmental organization, it did not raise many questions at the time, given that Germany was not the only Western country that usually sided with Israel, and also talking about financial aid, and this is it’s right, it gives it to whomever it wants and withholds it from whom it does not want.
What the German government has no right to do, three months after the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, is to announce its participation, and not just its complicity, with Israel in the genocide it is committing in Gaza by joining the International Court of Justice as a third party to cover up the war crimes it is committing. The most extremist Israeli government, and allowing it to continue without deterrence from international law will stop it from committing its crime. Thus, the German government declares war on the Palestinian people, because genocide is being committed against the entire people, and not a specific political faction, which calls us to ask: How can we understand this behavior of the German government, especially the motives behind it?
Let us acknowledge, at the outset, that the position of the current German government headed by Olaf Schulz and affiliated with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is not consistent with the historical position played by all previous German governments belonging to this party, as they made great efforts to be part of the solution, and not a partner party. In the conflict, it maintained a relative balance in which it supported Israel, but took a clear position regarding achieving the destiny of the Palestinian people and establishing their independent state on the 1967 borders, and an article by the representative of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (affiliated with the ruling party SPD) in the United States, Net Dethlefsen, in Foreign magazine Police on January 14, greatly illustrates the current deviation of the Schulz government from the historical positions of the party when he was governor.
Three factors may help us understand the position of the current German government. First, the traditional explanation that is always given for Germany’s bias towards Israel is its feeling of guilt towards the Jews and the Holocaust during World War II, which the German government carried out against them. It is an important explanation that tells us how German governments work to compensate for what was committed against the Jews, but it does not tell us how the feeling of guilt can cause violations by the German government against another defenceless people (the Palestinian people) who are suffering under occupation and are currently being subjected to genocide in order to be the victim of the victim. Thus, the German government is slowly slipping into becoming a partner in a new genocide, instead of atoning for its guilt in the first genocide.
Germany did everything possible to compensate for what it committed against the Jews in the 1940s, including apologies, financial compensation, and enacting laws that prevent even research into the Holocaust, which was not done by other countries that committed misdeeds and crimes against other peoples, such as Britain, which caused the catastrophe and suffering of the Palestinian people with the Balfour Declaration. The ill-fated (1917), for which it has not even apologized for more than a hundred years.
Secondly, there is another reason, perhaps represented by the “racism of the German government” and its treatment of other people with different degrees of rights and affiliations to humanity. Looking at the history of Germany itself, it is noted that genocide, unfortunately, is rooted in its history, like the genocide committed by (Kaiser) Germany. Colonialism against the Herero and Mama peoples in Namibia (1904 – 1908), in which more than one hundred thousand citizens were killed, because of their revolution against the German colonizer. Germany did not acknowledge the “genocide” it committed in Namibia until 2015, that is, more than a hundred years later, to apologize for it, and it did not provide compensation for the genocide it committed except 1.1 billion euros, paid over 30 years in the form of development aid, and this all that is. It seems here that there are degrees of victims, as this is the price of the extermination of the black Namibian and recognition after a hundred years, and the extermination of the brown Palestinian is not only without a price, but also contributes to it by providing cover for its perpetrators, the fascists of the Israeli government. As for atonement for the guilt of genocide of the white Jew by Schulz’s racist government, it will continue forever, even if this requires contributing to a new genocide, the price of which will be paid by the “brown Palestinian.” Here it is worth remembering that the main tool used by colonial Germany in the genocide in Namibia was “starvation” and “thirst” of the rebel people, and it is one of the tools that Israel uses today to starve and thirst the Palestinian people in Gaza, as its Minister of War, Gallant, stated when he said : No food or water to Gaza.
Third, there may be an ideological factor affecting the position of the German government, as the target of the current genocide is a Palestinian Arab people whose confrontation is led by an Islamic movement, “terrorist” as the German government considers it, as opposed to “the only democracy in the Middle East,” as Western governments in general like to call it, despite its implementation. A system of hateful racial discrimination that has been categorized by international human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, and Israeli others, such as B’Tselem. The war, at the present time, in the view of the German government, is a war of “Islamic terrorism” against “democracy” on Western standards, which requires participation. The German government committed this genocide. This position carries implications not only for the Palestinians, but for the people of the region as a whole, how the German government understands it and what price it is worth to it.
The German government, therefore, declares war on the Palestinian people and not the other way around. Therefore, the Palestinian people have the right to respond to this unjustified war by the racist Schulz government. In the first place, the Palestinian Authority is required to sever its relationship with the current German government in order to be deterred from its aggression against the Palestinian people, and to become more in line with the historical positions of the SPD governments on the Palestinian issue. Here we must mention how the boycott of the Palestinian Authority contributed to the former US President, Donald Trump, in thwarting his ill-fated deal that targeted the entire Palestinian issue.
Palestinian civil society organizations have an important role to play in this issue, especially since a significant number of them have a liaison with the German government and the institutions emanating from it. At a time of genocide to which the Palestinian people are being subjected, there is no place for ambiguity, flattery, and similar positions. The racist Schulz government must hear the position clearly and unambiguously, and demonstrate in front of German representations not only in Palestine, but also in other Arab countries where demonstrations are permitted. Such as Lebanon, Tunisia and others.
The economic boycott of German products is one of the options available to Arabs and Palestinians, and let us remember that the German government’s racism and ideology include Arabs and Muslims in general, and therefore the Arab popular level is demanding that measures be taken against the German government’s racism, in order to preserve its human dignity, as it forces this government to deal with all people. On the same level of human belonging, and not who is first degree, and who is other degrees.
Finally, dialogue must be kept open at various levels until the German government realizes the evil of its actions and its sinful bias in favor of genocide against the Palestinian people. It is necessary to remember that the Palestinian people are not against Germany or its government, but are defending their existence and continuity!
For more than seventy years, the people of Palestine have lived under occupation, displacement, and constant fear. Yet Israel continues to speak of peace — as if peace can coexist with the daily reality of walls, checkpoints, and military control.
How can a nation claim to seek peace while stealing another people’s land and demolishing their homes? How can anyone justify the coexistence or expansion of illegal settlements and the uprooting of families by invoking divine promises? No true faith can sanctify injustice, and no moral principle can excuse oppression.
Israel often presents itself as a perpetual victim — a small nation surrounded by threats. But how long can that false narrative hold when one side possesses overwhelming power and the other lives under siege? How can the powerful remain victims while the powerless are starved and buried under rubble?
Palestinians are not merely numbers in a headline. They are mothers waiting at checkpoints, children growing up under drones, families forced from their homes, and communities cut off from one another by concrete walls and barbed wire. These are not the marks of peace or self-defense — they are the signs of a people being slowly erased from their homeland.
The separation walls and thousands of checkpoints have not brought safety; they have deepened division. True peace cannot come from fear, domination, or the silencing of another nation’s identity. It must be rooted in justice, in the recognition that every human being — Israeli or Palestinian — deserves freedom, dignity, and security.
The Israeli nation cannot feel safe while making millions of Palestinians live in constant insecurity. It cannot speak of democracy while enforcing apartheid laws and denying basic rights to those living under its control. Peace will not be achieved through might or divine entitlement, but through empathy, equality, and the courage to face uncomfortable truths.
One day, history will ask who stood for justice and who turned away. The answer will depend on whether humanity values compassion over conquest and truth over silence.
Real peace can never be built upon another people’s suffering. It begins only when freedom is shared — not stolen.
The British-Australian Jewish actress Miriam Margolyes said that “the one who has won in Gaza is Adolf Hitler,” the leader of “Nazi” Germany, because “he made us like him — killing a defenseless people who have no guilt for our Holocaust in Europe.”
The episode showed a video clip of the Jewish actress saying:
“Because I know the extent of the evil and cruelty that befell the Jews in my lifetime, I cannot bear to think that my people are doing exactly the same thing to another nation. And the people to whom this is being done are the Palestinians.”
She added that the Palestinian people were not responsible for what she called “the Holocaust” and had nothing to do with it.
Miriam continued: “I think the terrible thing I have to face is that Hitler has won… He changed us and made us become like him.”
The host of the program “Fawq al-Sulta” (Above the Authority), Nazih Al-Ahdab, commented on the actress’s statements, saying that “the words of Miriam Margolyes are more valuable and profound than all the studies and analyses that could be written about what happened in Gaza.”
The ill-fated Balfour Declaration, issued in November 1917, remains a contentious historical document that significantly impacted the Middle East. Crafted by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the declaration expressed support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine at a time when Palestine was still under the British mandate. However, its implementation led to a series of conflicts, massacres, and disputes, resulting in the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people from their villages and cities in 1948. The promise made by the British government failed to consider the rights and aspirations of the Palestinian majority population already residing in Palestine, leading to decades of tensions and hostilities. The Balfour Declaration stands as a symbol of racism (white supremacy) and an ill-fated event that Palestinians consider a catastrophic episode in their lives.
Who wouldn’t be happy to have their home unexpectedly handed over to someone else as a generous gift?! How generous it was for someone to arbitrarily pledge a “national home for the Jewish people” in a land already rich with diverse and vibrant communities.
Surely, Balfour’s legacy will remain a dark spot in the annals of time.
For centuries, the great powers of Europe—Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and later the United States—swept across Africa, Asia and the Middle East with armies, missionaries and merchants. Behind the banners of “civilisation” and “progress,” they invaded, occupied and partitioned lands that had their own rich histories and political systems.
The record is brutal.
• In the Congo Free State, millions perished under King Leopold’s private regime of forced rubber extraction.
• In India, British economic policies contributed to famines that killed tens of millions in the 18th and 19th centuries.
• In Algeria, Kenya, Vietnam, Indonesia and elsewhere, uprisings against colonial rule were met with massacres, scorched earth tactics, and concentration camps.
• The Sykes–Picot Agreement and similar deals carved up the Middle East into artificial states whose borders still fuel conflict.
Raw materials—gold, diamonds, oil, cotton, spices, labour—were shipped to Europe and North America to fund the industrial revolutions that made these states the richest and most powerful in human history. Colonies were left with shattered economies, distorted borders, and political systems designed to divide rather than unite.
After Independence: The “Invisible Empire”
Formal empires collapsed after World War II, but the structures of control endured.
• Western powers propped up friendly dictators, armed rival factions, and toppled governments that resisted Western economic or strategic interests.
• Structural adjustment programmes from the IMF and World Bank kept many post-colonial economies tied to foreign creditors.
• Weapons and covert funding turned local disputes into civil wars, while global corporations continued to extract oil, cobalt, coffee, and rare earths.
The Great Reversal
Ironically, the same countries that devastated the global South became beacons of opportunity. Their wealth—built on centuries of plunder—created welfare systems, strong currencies, and technological innovation. For people trapped in poverty or war, migrating to Europe or North America often meant the difference between survival and despair.
Yet migrants arriving in London, Paris, Berlin or New York were no longer “subjects of empire.” They were immigrants, labelled outsiders and often met with racism, discrimination and political scapegoating. They cleaned hospitals, drove buses, and staffed essential industries, while hearing lectures about “integration,” “freedom,” and “democracy”—values long denied to their own ancestors.
Accident or Strategy?
Was this a master plan? Did imperial powers deliberately devastate other regions to ensure permanent dominance and a captive labour force?
Historians debate intent. Some argue it was calculated economic design: monopolise resources, impose dependency, and reap profits for generations. Others see a series of opportunistic decisions driven by short-term greed, not a grand conspiracy.
Either way, the outcome is clear:
• The wealth gap between former colonisers and former colonies remains staggering.
• Borders drawn in colonial capitals still ignite wars.
• Migration flows continue to follow the old imperial trade routes.
The Moral Question
Western governments now position themselves as global arbiters of human rights and democracy. They condemn coups, corruption, and war crimes abroad—often in countries destabilised by their own historical actions. Migrants, despite enduring racism and exclusion, still find these societies more liveable than the homelands left fractured by colonial rule.
This is the great paradox of the modern world:
Those who broke the global South now hold the keys to its escape routes.
Whether this was a deliberate “master plan” or the long shadow of empire hardly changes the lived reality. The descendants of colonisers live in nations built on extraction and violence; the descendants of the colonised navigate a world order still tilted against them, yet often choose to build new lives in the very capitals that once ruled their ancestors.
History may not offer a tidy conspiracy, but it does reveal a system: conquest, exploitation, enrichment—and then the power to define morality itself.
As of this writing, over 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Among them are 1,000 infants — babies who never had a chance to take their first steps or speak their first words. This is not a tragedy that unfolded in darkness. It happened in full view of the world — livestreamed, documented, undeniable. And yet, the response from global leaders has been an appalling silence, broken only by carefully crafted statements of “concern” that mean nothing to the slaughtered.
The world has failed Gaza. Not through ignorance, but through moral cowardice and political calculation.
A System Built to Protect the Powerful
If the killing of twenty thousand children had been committed by any other state, the reaction would have been immediate and severe. Sanctions, travel bans, arms embargoes, and international trials would follow. Yet Israeli apartheid and occupation , shielded by its Western allies, continues to enjoy full diplomatic, economic, and cultural privileges.
It still competes in football tournaments, Eurovision, and global sporting events — spectacles meant to celebrate peace and unity. The hypocrisy is grotesque. A nation accused of grave breaches of international law continues to sing, play, and trade as though nothing has happened.
The “rules-based international order,” so often invoked by Western governments, has been exposed as a selective fiction. Rules apply only to the weak, never to the well-armed or well-connected.
Western Complicity
The governments most vocal about democracy and human rights have stood by, providing weapons, diplomatic cover, or strategic silence. Washington continues to send military aid. European capitals, while shedding crocodile tears, refuse even the mildest sanctions. Some have gone further, criminalizing protests, censoring journalists, and intimidating those who dare to call the genocide what it is.
The message is unmistakable: the lives of Palestinian children are negotiable — expendable collateral in a geopolitical alliance.
The Failure of International Institutions
The United Nations, paralyzed by American vetoes and political cowardice, has become a theatre of impotence. Humanitarian agencies have been bombed and starved of funds. War crimes investigations stall. The International Criminal Court moves at a glacial pace, hesitant to anger powerful states.
Every structure designed to prevent mass atrocities has either collapsed or been corrupted. The moral infrastructure of the post-war world — the Geneva Conventions, the UN Charter, the principle of universal human rights — lies in ruins in Gaza’s rubble.
The Collapse of Moral Authority
How can Europe lecture the Global South on human rights after this? How can the United States claim to defend democracy abroad while funding the Israeli genocide, destruction of hospitals, schools, and refugee camps? The answer is simple: it can’t. Gaza has destroyed whatever moral credibility these powers once claimed.
In the face of genocide-scale violence, silence is not neutrality — it is endorsement. The refusal to act, to sanction, to even condemn unequivocally, is a form of complicity that history will not forget.
The Reckoning to Come
Gaza will not be remembered only as a humanitarian catastrophe, but as the moment the world’s conscience died. The image of lifeless children pulled from the rubble will haunt every leader who chose political convenience over human decency.
No amount of diplomatic spin or televised empathy can erase the reality: the global order failed to stop the mass killing of children. And in doing so, it failed itself.
