Our Genocide: When Silence Becomes Complicity

The world watches. The bombs fall. And a human tragedy of unfathomable scale unfolds.

On July 28, 2025, B’Tselem, Israel’s foremost human rights organization, issued a report titled Our Genocide — a document that shatters decades of euphemism and denial. For the first time, a major Israeli human rights group did not merely describe violence in Gaza as disproportionate or unlawful — it named it for what it is: genocide.

“A coordinated attack to destroy Palestinian society”

B’Tselem did not arrive at this conclusion lightly. The report painstakingly documents the consequences of nearly 22 months of war — cities erased, families obliterated, a society made into rubble.

“An examination of Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads us to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip.”

This is not academic language. It is a testimony — a moral indictment — issued not by distant observers but by Israelis and Palestinians living under the same regime they describe.

“Our genocide has context”

The report rejects the notion that this destruction is incidental to warfare:

“After decades of separation, and of dehumanization of Palestinians, the horrors of the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, created deep existential fear among Israelis. The extremist, far-right messianic government is using that fear to promote an agenda of destruction and expulsion.”

This stark reminder places the Gaza assault within a broader history of discrimination, fragmentation and violent control — not as a deviation, but as a continuation and amplification of long-standing policies.

“The lives of all Palestinians… are being treated as worthless”

Perhaps the most heart-wrenching words in the report come not as statistics, but as truth spoken plainly:

“The lives of all Palestinians, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, are being treated as worthless. They can be starved, killed, displaced — and the situation keeps getting worse.”

Imagine, for a moment, what that means:

A generation of children robbed of homes and futures.
Hospitals reduced to graves.
Food, water and medicine withheld until survival becomes an act of defiance.

This isn’t collateral damage. This is a systematic unraveling of a people’s existence.

“Nothing can justify genocide.”

B’Tselem confronts another myth head-on — that the violence can be justified as self-defense.

“One crime does not justify another — certainly not the mass killing of civilians or an attempt to erase and destroy an entire group. There is nothing that can justify genocide…”

This moral clarity echoes across generations of humanity’s worst chapters. Genocide, defined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, exists because the world once failed to stop it before. To rewrite its meaning now is to condemn ourselves to history’s darkest circles.

“The genocide is happening now.”

B’Tselem’s warning is urgent, not theoretical:

“…the genocide is happening now in the Gaza Strip, but any trigger could cause it to rapidly spread to other areas under Israel’s control.”

This is not distant history. It is today’s headlines, tomorrow’s regret.

Why this matters

When Israelis themselves raise this alarm, it should shake the conscience of every person who believes in human dignity. B’Tselem reminds us that:

“As Israelis and Palestinians who live here… we have a duty to speak the truth as clearly as possible… Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.”

Silence is not neutrality. Silence is acquiescence.

What we must do

Reading Our Genocide is a call to conscience. It is a reminder that humanity is measured not by how we label wars, but by how we respond to suffering.

We must share this truth. We must name what is happening — not as rhetoric, but as reality. We must demand that moral and legal obligations transcend politics. And we must act before history asks us, too late: Did we know?

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