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“Israel Genocide?” statement in response to the United Nations Human Rights​ “Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict” and call to action

PLEASE TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW AND SEND YOUR LETTER TO THE UN OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISER ON THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR.

The United Nations Human Rights “Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict” has been released and the word genocide appears only once, to define what an International Crime is.

Even though the numbers speak for themselves, the treatment of the occupying army and the population it besieges as some kind of equals, with equal responsibility and military ability, in this report is glaring. We feel that the report, while detailing Israel’s individual war crimes, both in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, during Israel’s attack last summer, intentionally glosses over the context of 68 years of colonization and its subsequent on-going genocidal effects.

A crime of this magnitude- which lasted 51 consecutive days and resulted in the extermination of 89 whole families and the deaths of scores of others, and in devastating damage to civilian property and infrastructure in the context of Israel’s ever-tightening de-facto stranglehold on Palestinian land and lives and infinitely superior fire-power- cannot be assessed under the laws of war, but under the laws of genocide. We appeal to the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda to investigate the possibility that Israel is committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people.

We also call on each and every one of you, who agree with our appeal, to send this email below to the relevant offices. Seeing this report, we cannot stress enough the importance of such civil society action. Please help us preasure the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the ICC Prosecutor. Together we will end Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, International Court of Justice President: Investigate the Possibility that Israel is Committing the Crime of Genocide Against the Indigenous Palestinian People

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Letter of Support from the BDS National Committee (BNC) for the Israel Genocide? Campaign

Dear friends, organizers of the Israel Genocide? Campaign,

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) welcomes and supports your initiative to encourage people worldwide to write to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and demand that the UN conduct an enquiry into the possibility that Israel may have committed the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people and publish its findings and recommendations.

In light of earlier and alarming findings of independent experts, in particular since Israel’s hermetic siege and separation of the occupied Gaza Strip in 2007 and the consecutive waves of mass killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the BNC considers this initiative, which is directed specifically at the responsible UN personnel, to be important and timely. All, including the former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the OPT, Prof. Richard Falk, separate Arab League- and UN-led investigations into Israel’s 2008/9 war on Gaza, and the 2014 Russell Tribunal on Palestine special session on Israeli violations of international law in Gaza and elsewhere in the OPT, have all confirmed that Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity have been perpetrated with impunity and, furthermore, that direct and public incitement to genocide by Israeli political, religious and parliamentary leaders have been well documented. Therefore, the UN Office of the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide should be pressured to investigate if Israeli officials are responsible for the crime of genocide, including the crime of incitement to genocide, and to assess and prevent the risk of a future Israeli genocide against (parts of) the Palestinian people.

While supporting the Israel Genocide? Campaign, and irrespective of its results, the BNC calls on campaigners to continue to build public awareness and pressure for holding Israel accountable for its regime of colonialism, apartheid and occupation, including the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in this context against Palestinians since 1948, such as ethnic cleansing and mass killing of civilians.  Both, facts and international law strongly support this approach. Like the crime of genocide, colonialism and the crime of apartheid are internationally prohibited. They also result in similar legal responsibilities: all states and international organizations, such as the United Nations, are to isolate and suppress Israeli apartheid and colonialism, bring responsible individuals to justice, and ensure full reparation for the Palestinian victims.

In solidarity,
Mahmoud Nawajaa
BNC General Coordinator

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UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor: Investigate the Possibility that Israel is Committing the Crime of Genocide Against the Palestinian People

Click to take action right now and demand the U.N. Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor investigate Israel for the possibility of the Crime of Genocide

The Crime of Genocide is defined in a declaration made by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 96 (I) dated 11 December 1946:

The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.

Article 2

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article 3

The following acts shall be punishable:

(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.

Article 4

Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.

We are people from all around the world who fear that we are witnessing the genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel. Witnessing Israel’s daily violations of Palestinian human rights- military take-over of land, restriction of movement, economic strangulation, house demolitions, restrictions on basic foodstuff, mass arbitrary arrests of both adults and children, torture, extra judicial executions, and large-scale massacres of whole families, openly calling for genocide and extermination by law makers and other public figures- we can not keep silent about this 67 year-old atrocity, unfolding before our eyes.

We demand the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor take action and investigate the possibility that Israel is committing the Crime of Genocide against the Palestinian People, and that the office publish its findings and recommendations.

Please see our call to action and act now.

 
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How public health research supports accountability for Israeli war crimes in Gaza by Yara Asi, David Mills, Bram Wispelwey, Osama Tanous, and Weeam Hammoudeh, August 2026)

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As a team of public health researchers, we have been documenting the interconnected set of Israeli actions used to dismantle the Gaza Strip’s health system since October 2023. Far from the passive language of “humanitarian crisis” that is often used, our findings reveal a purposeful effort to collapse Gaza’s health sector that was already taking shape during the very first weeks and months of Israel’s military campaign.

Our research contributes to an important body of evidence – built on the foundations of the work and testimonies of Palestinians on the ground – for future justice, accountability, and restitution, including in the case brought by South Africa to the International Court of Justice charging Israel with the crime of genocide.

… These findings have significance beyond public health. They provide empirical evidence that can inform assessments of compliance with international humanitarian law, investigations into alleged war crimes, and broader probes into genocide and other mass atrocity crimes.

Continue reading at https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2026/08/13/how-public-health-research-supports-accountability-israeli-war-crimes-gaza

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Israel holding bodies of 1,700 Palestinians as bargaining chips, says report by Middle East Eye

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Israel is holding the dead bodies of about 1,700 Palestinians as potential bargaining chips despite there being no Israeli hostages currently held by Palestinian armed groups, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported.

According to the report, Shin Bet chief David Zini has urged Israel to retain the remains for possible use in future hostage negotiations, a position supported by the Israeli military.

Continue reading at https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-holding-1700-palestinian-bodies-bargaining-chips-report

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How to Normalize a Genocide: Off-Broadway “Birthright” Play Sparks Boycott Campaign by William Johnson

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At its worst, Birthright aggressively encourages its audience to turn inward and stop worrying about the genocide. In a pivotal monologue toward the play’s conclusion, the character Alona – who over the course of the story decides to move to Israel, becoming a settler – describes how due to the violence of October 7, she feels no compassion for the victims of Israel’s genocidal aggression: “I know there’s thousands of kids in Gaza who are just as scared or worse, and I wish I did, but I just don’t have the space for them in my heart right now, not after what they did.” This rejection of basic human compassion on ethnonationalist grounds (Alona only has “space” in her heart for other Israelis) receives no rebuttal. 

… A survey of the current theater landscape suggests that Birthright is not a standalone work of theatrical propaganda, but functions (knowingly or not) as part of a broader Zionist attempt to resuscitate Israel’s public image through arts and culture. 

… Theater’s normalization formula seems clear: rather than engage with Palestinian voices, erase them altogether and flood the zone with a new variant of family drama wherein genocide is acknowledged (“politics erupt”), but its supporters are humanized while arguments against Israel’s crimes are portrayed as obstacles interfering with Jewish family and community. In fact, creating theater along these lines is essentially the mission statement of the Y6K Project, the arts incubator that commissioned and developed both Birthright and The Zionists.

Continue reading at https://indypendent.org/2026/08/how-to-normalize-a-genocide-off-broadway-birthright-play-sparks-boycott-campaign/

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Al-Haq at the UN Human Rights Council’s 62nd Session: The Responsibility of the International Community by Al-Haq

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Amidst ongoing complicity by Third States in Israel’s commission of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, at the 62nd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC62), Al-Haq shed a spotlight on the various means by which Israel is pursuing its annexationist goals and Zionist agenda of Palestinian erasure. Al-Haq’s engagement throughout HRC62, which took place between 15 June and 10 July 2026, included two written submissions and two oral interventions drawing much needed attention to the unhindered implementation of the ‘20-Point Plan’ – an attack on the very idea of a viable Palestinian State – and the widespread and systematic use of settler violence to destroy Palestinians in the West Bank and annex the Palestinian territory. Al-Haq also participated in a Side Event organised by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, centring on Israeli violence against mothers in the Gaza Strip.

Continue reading at https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/27800.html

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Complicity in International Crimes and Violations of International Law by the Israel Football Association by Al-Haq

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On 8 July 2026, Sadaka-The Ireland Palestine Alliance, and Al-Haq, a Palestinian NGO based in Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestine, sent letters with an annexed position paper to Board Members of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI). The letters and annex warned that the determination of the FAI, and its Board of Directors, to proceed with the planned Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) fixtures between the men’s national team and the Israel Football Association (Israel FA) in Autumn 2026 constitutes complicity in the most egregious violations of international law, including the crimes of apartheid and genocide. These crimes are also clear breaches of UEFA and the International Association of Football Federations (FIFA) Statute provisions on territory and non-discrimination, as well as breaches of Directors’ fiduciary duties under Section 228 of the Companies Act 2024.

The Israel FA, through its incorporation of illegal settlement teams, is clearly responsible for ongoing breaches of UEFA and FIFA Statutes, and is materially complicit in Israel’s settlement crimes, as well as the crimes of apartheid and genocide. As detailed in the Annex attached, UN experts have stressed that international football associations carrying on business as normal with the Israel FA are liable for breaches of international law, including human rights law. Such liability extends also to individual FAI Board members as well as the association.

Continue reading at https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/27790.html

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Gaza holds mass funeral for 112 killed nearly 3 years ago by Israel by Daily Sabah

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Palestinians in Gaza held a mass funeral on Tuesday for 112 people, whose bodies were finally recovered from under the rubble of homes destroyed in Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave.

Thousands of Palestinians took part in the funeral in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood, where the bodies were draped in Palestinian flags and placed near the ruins of the destroyed homes.

Continue reading at https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/gaza-holds-mass-funeral-for-112-killed-nearly-3-years-ago-by-israel

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Israel wipes genocide evidence in Gaza, carting off rubble and remains in 100 trucks daily by Euromed Human Rights Monitor

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Palestinian Territory – The Israeli forces, along with Israeli civilian contractors, are conducting a wide and organised operation to process and clear the rubble from neighbourhoods and facilities they have destroyed in the Gaza Strip and relocate it from areas under their military control to outside the Strip.

This is occurring without any official record of the quantities removed or independent oversight, and before international and local investigative committees have had the chance to survey, examine, and document the sites. This risks destroying crucial evidence of genocide and the remains of victims still unaccounted for under the rubble.

These operations are not part of organised humanitarian efforts to rescue the missing, open roads, or prepare for reconstruction. Instead, Israel is acting unilaterally within closed areas under its military control by demolishing remaining buildings and then crushing, mixing, and transporting the rubble before forensic teams, evidence experts, and unexploded ordnance specialists can examine, document, and preserve the sites, along with the evidence and human remains.

Continue reading at https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/7088/Israel-wipes-genocide-evidence-in-Gaza,-carting-off-rubble-and-remains-in-100-trucks-daily

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Israel’s Rave Music Drowns Out the Sound of its Victims by Zenab Huriyah Ahmed

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Writers often ask whether it is possible for music to be a soundtrack for peace, but it is rare for them to seriously consider whether financials even allow it. Israelis face this broader problem in psychedelic trance. Even if there was a serious grappling with a century of slaughter and erasure, rather than a deepening of denial through bomb shelter raves profiled in Rolling Stone, a whole cultural sector reinforcing blissful ignorance would need to unravel. Denial is built into so much of Israeli electronic dance music, and money and power has clearly latched onto it as a lifestyle choice.

It is the soundtrack for a new era of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and it is complicit in its tranquilizing of a public that must urgently mobilize to end it. Israeli electronica launders the reality of mass killing, managing the psyches of those whose lives are built through the violence of a racist system. It will be remembered for its fascistic utility like Wagnerian opera and Beethoven symphonies in Nazi Germany, and those who resist it will be remembered for their bravery and steadfast opposition to injustice.

Continue reading at https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels-rave-music-drowns-out-the-sound-of-its-victims

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Massive Attack Banned from Singapore After Displaying Palestine Flag Onstage by Hattie Lindert

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The decision is tied to Singapore’s policies on public speech, which prohibit publicly displaying foreign national emblems without a permit or exemption. In 2023, the city-state’s Ministry of Home Affairs shared a release specifically discouraging citizens from wearing or displaying articles that address the Israel-Palestine conflict. “The peace and harmony between different races and religions in Singapore should not be taken for granted, and we must not let events happening externally affect this peace and harmony we have in Singapore,” it noted.

… “We are proud to have made this impromptu expression with our fans in Singapore who clearly felt a moral imperative to show solidarity with the people of Palestine in their ongoing reality of illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide, and we salute their courage in doing so,” the band wrote. “Right across the world, the continued inaction of the ‘international’ community is moving citizens to personal risk.”

Continue reading at https://pitchfork.com/story/massive-attack-banned-from-singapore-after-displaying-palestine-flag-onstage/

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Local pensioners face possible 14-year prison sentence for saying 12 words at Gaza protest by Hastings Online Times

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Two local pensioners were arrested outside Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday (30 July), under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act, for publicly saying the words: ‘I support Palestine Action and I encourage everyone to do the same. Saving lives is not terrorism.’ 

… Nina Heaton said: ‘The UK government is desperate to silence any who dare to expose the UK’s complicity and active participation in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is desperate to conceal its highly lucrative arms trade with multiple Israeli weapons factories here in the UK. It is desperate to hide the truth from the British public. Sabotaging Israel’s machinery of death, weapons that maim, mutilate and murder is not terrorism. Decent people, people with a conscience will carry on protesting because we are right. Genocide is wrong.’

Continue reading at https://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hot-topics/campaigns/a-fourteen-year-sentence-for-12-words