"The Gaza Nakba has not ended, because it did not begin in October 2023, but in the 1948 Nakba, when Israel
emerged on the ruins of Palestine and Palestinians. This reality
immediately clashed with the idea of Israel as a unique state, the state
of survivors of the unique evil of the Nazis, which made it seem
unimaginable that Israel could perpetrate any crime in international
law, let alone genocide, the new crime that was formulated also in 1948." Raz Segal is
an associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton
University and the endowed professor in the study of modern genocide
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| ‘Most people know that day is not night, and they refuse to say otherwise.’ Photograph: APAImages/Shutterstock |
On 10 October, following two years of Israeli genocide that have turned Gaza into the new benchmark of total destruction, after Israel has killed and injured hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and inflicted on all the people in Gaza “severe bodily or mental harm,” to quote from the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Trump administration imposed a ceasefire, giving rise to the idea that the Gaza war has ended.
The ceasefire, however, seems to be designed mostly to move forward with the business deals of the mega rich in the Middle East, and the fire has never ceased: the Israeli government has continued its assault, killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinians since 10 October, destroying thousands of homes and buildings, and blocking the entry of sufficient aid.
The genocidal rhetoric, furthermore, has not ended. Take, for instance... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/28/the-genocide-in-gaza-is-far-from-over