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Israel isn't carrying out genocide in Gaza.
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is the text of a speech I delivered in Bath on
Saturday 17 November 2024, organised by the
Bath Campaigns Network. A section of the talk
– on Keir Starmer’s lies about Gaza – can be
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style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">For
13 months, western governments and the
establishment media have shown us who they are.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>They
are indifferent to the mass murder of children
in Gaza. In fact, the West supplies the weapons
and intelligence to help Israel slaughter </span><em>more</em><span>
Palestinian children.</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Western
leaders seem fine too with an aid blockade denying
water, food and power to more than 2 million
people – starving them. Our politicians and media
call it “self-defence”.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Similarly,
the West has quietly consented to Israel’s war on
the United Nations and its banning of UNRWA, the
only refugee agency able to feed and care for
Gaza’s families.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Western
leaders have gradually resigned themselves to
Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s
hospitals and medical centres, as well as the
documented killing, kidnapping and torture of
medical workers.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Western
politicians and media have shrugged their
shoulders as Israel has picked off more than 150
journalists in Gaza – the largest massacre of
media workers in history. Israel prefers to carry
out its crimes unobserved.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Israel
has carved up tiny Gaza into a northern and a
southern zone, and is terrorising 400,000
Palestinians out of the ruins of north Gaza into
the ruins of south Gaza.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">They
are being herded into a south Gaza of so-called
“safe zones” bombarded and starved nearly as
intensely as north Gaza.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
West has watched mutely as Israeli leaders declare
the Palestinians of north Gaza will never be
allowed back – that is, that they are being
ethnically cleansed, as they were earlier by
Israel, in 1948, during the Nakba.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Day
by day, Israel shrinks the space for Palestinians
in what was – even before Israel’s genocide in
Gaza – one of the most overcrowded, besieged,
attacked and surveilled places on the planet.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Israel
is making a hell on earth for Palestinians ever
more hellish.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">And
yet the West’s leaders have barely bothered to
call for restraint. Even after 13 months of a
genocide, we are told this is a necessary “war
against Hamas”.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Even
Israel’s aid blockade and starvation of Gaza’s
population – an indisputable crime against
humanity – is framed as an author-less
“humanitarian crisis”.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Industrial-scale
murder in Gaza – carried out with the supply of
British weapons and intelligence – has become so
routine the BBC hardly bothers to report it any
more.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">And
our protests are smeared as antisemitism.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Like
Israel, the West has stood on its head the very
international legal order it developed after the
Second World War to stop a repeat of the
Holocaust.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>David
Lammy, Britain’s foreign secretary, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/63bac2e7-7d51-44ff-8ee6-fdb05506aa31?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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people in Gaza have died yet for us to call it a
genocide – as though accountants and
mathematicians are the ones to decide when
crimes against humanity are committed.</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">As
though the goal is simply to identify a genocide
for the historical record, after it is completed,
rather than stop it in its tracks. </p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>In
any case, Lammy knows that Gaza has been so
utterly devastated that it now has </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/4c500581-c2cb-42d3-9ceb-2ce99c2d3c27?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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dead</a><span>. He knows that, according to
experts, Gaza’s death toll is more likely in the
100,000s than the 10,000s.</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Sir
Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, spoke
this past week in the House of Commons to tell us
two things.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">First,
that any questioning of Israel’s conduct is
improper – unless it is preceded and overshadowed
by condemnation of Hamas’ actions more than a year
ago.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">And
second, that, as an expert in human rights law, he
can categorically say no genocide is taking place
in Gaza.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Today,
Starmer excels as one thing: a grubby, cynical,
craven politician – one utterly subservient to the
American empire and its interests in the oil-rich
Middle East.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">But
Starmer is right. Indeed, he does know the
definition of genocide.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">In
2014, he defined genocide to the International
Court of Justice, the highest court in the world,
in a war crimes hearing into Serbia’s three-month
siege in 1991 of the Croatian city of Vukovar.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">He
would prefer we forget his words. So let me recall
them now.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Starmer
said, and I quote: </p>
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<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">Serbian
forces carried out a sustained campaign of
shelling, systematic expulsion, denial of food,
water, electricity, sanitation and medical
treatment – bombing, burning, brutal killings
and torture, which reduced the city [of Vukovar]
to rubble and destroyed its Croat population.</p>
</blockquote>
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<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Starmer
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/60caf599-6c13-4cbe-acfc-89e234fe228c?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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Serbia’s actions as genocidal because they were
a “radically disproportionate attack
deliberately intended to devastate the town and
its civilian population”.</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Israel’s
crimes in Gaza are immeasurably worse – on a far
larger scale and far more sustained – than
anything suffered by Vukovar.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">And
unlike the case of Serbia, there can be no doubt
about intent. Israel’s leaders have endlessly
repeated that the goal is to lay waste to Gaza, to
make it uninhabitable, to starve the population.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">This
week, an eminent British doctor who has
volunteered in Gaza explained how Israel dealt
with Palestinian children it failed to kill with
its bombs.</p>
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<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Dr
Nizam Mamode broke down as he told a parliamentary
committee that, after refugee shelters were
struck, Israel would send in small, armed drones
to identify and shoot survivors.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Children
he operated on would tell how the drones hovered
over them as they lay on the ground and then shot.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">He
called it a deliberate and persistent targeting of
children.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>UN
figures </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/59a91171-d85f-4050-bfb4-393a200d8ab1?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">show</a><span> that 70%
of verified violent deaths in Gaza are women and
children, with the highest proportion from the
age group five to nine-year-olds.</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Is
this not genocide, Sir Keir, as you defined it in
2014? Is it not genocide, as the Genocide
Convention defines it. </p>
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if it is not, Sir Keir, you urgently need to
explain why.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">From
their own mouths, Lammy and Starmer have told us
who they are. They are genocide deniers. They are
enablers of genocide. They are conspirators in
genocide – just like those who preceded them in
the British government.</p>
<p
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may be exhausted by 13 months of lies,
disinformation, smears and gaslighting. But we are
not voiceless – or powerless. Our leaders seek to
exhaust us, to smear and bully us into submission
and silence, because they fear what we have to
say.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Because
every time we raise our voices, we shame them. We
expose them. We remind ourselves and others that
this is not normal. That we are led by moral
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