We cannot allow
ourselves to be numbed into despair, exhausted into silence, or lied to
until the last Palestinian child has been murdered by a terrorist,
genocidal regime.
By Fareed Khan
A version of this article can be found on Substack.
A version of this article can be found on Substack.
To every person of conscience, to every soul still capable of
outrage and hope—we have watched horrors unfold that history will never
forgive. Since October 2023, Gaza has been subjected to a relentless
campaign of annihilation. The numbers are staggering and merciless—tens of thousands murdered outright by the Israeli military, hundreds of thousands more dead
from starvation, disease, and the deliberate destruction of every means
of sustaining life. The bombs dropped on this tiny strip of land have
exceeded—by more than six times—the destructive force of the Hiroshima
atomic bomb.
What
Israel is doing is not war. This is genocide as confirmed by the
International Association of Genocide Scholars, the United Nations,
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, respected Jewish
Holocaust scholars, and various international medical organizations.
This crime of crimes has been carried out with weapons and political cover supplied by the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Canada, and other nations which still dare to speak of upholding “international law” and “human rights” but do nothing uphold the ideals behind those terms. And the genocide continues—even now—despite every ceasefire announcement, every diplomatic phrase, every claim of restraint.
In all of this we see clearly who Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is—a man who has turned the attack of October 7 into a license for the permanent conquest and erasure of the Palestinian people. He speaks of “peace” while ordering extermination. He speaks of “security” while directing the systematic destruction of an entire people’s future—its homes, its hospitals, its schools, its history, its children, its future. Every lie he utters, every racist edict, every mass grave he creates, stains not only his name but the moral credibility of the state he leads carrying out these crimes in the name of the Jewish people.
Netanyahu’s actions will stain Jewish communities around the world for generations. When a state commits atrocities while claiming to act on behalf of an entire people, the world too often answers with the oldest and most dangerous reflex—collective blame. We have seen this movie before, and we must refuse to let it be written again.
The Palestinian people are not collateral damage, they are the target. Their only crime is existing. Their only demand is to live free on the land their ancestors tended for centuries—free from military occupation, free from apartheid walls, free from settler violence, free from the daily humiliation of having their very existence debated as a security threat.
In the face of all this we cannot allow ourselves to be numbed into despair. We cannot allow ourselves to be exhausted into silence. We cannot allow ourselves to be lied to until the last Palestinian child’s voice is extinguished.
The day of reckoning for the criminal perpetrators of the Gaza genocide is inevitable. Those who ordered, enabled, financed, and excused this genocide will one day face justice, the judgment of history and of humanity. And that day arrives faster when ordinary people refuse to look away and be complicit through their silence.
As human beings witnessing horrors we will never forget, we demand—loudly, unapologetically, and without compromise—that our governments:
This crime of crimes has been carried out with weapons and political cover supplied by the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Canada, and other nations which still dare to speak of upholding “international law” and “human rights” but do nothing uphold the ideals behind those terms. And the genocide continues—even now—despite every ceasefire announcement, every diplomatic phrase, every claim of restraint.
In all of this we see clearly who Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is—a man who has turned the attack of October 7 into a license for the permanent conquest and erasure of the Palestinian people. He speaks of “peace” while ordering extermination. He speaks of “security” while directing the systematic destruction of an entire people’s future—its homes, its hospitals, its schools, its history, its children, its future. Every lie he utters, every racist edict, every mass grave he creates, stains not only his name but the moral credibility of the state he leads carrying out these crimes in the name of the Jewish people.
Netanyahu’s actions will stain Jewish communities around the world for generations. When a state commits atrocities while claiming to act on behalf of an entire people, the world too often answers with the oldest and most dangerous reflex—collective blame. We have seen this movie before, and we must refuse to let it be written again.
The Palestinian people are not collateral damage, they are the target. Their only crime is existing. Their only demand is to live free on the land their ancestors tended for centuries—free from military occupation, free from apartheid walls, free from settler violence, free from the daily humiliation of having their very existence debated as a security threat.
In the face of all this we cannot allow ourselves to be numbed into despair. We cannot allow ourselves to be exhausted into silence. We cannot allow ourselves to be lied to until the last Palestinian child’s voice is extinguished.
The day of reckoning for the criminal perpetrators of the Gaza genocide is inevitable. Those who ordered, enabled, financed, and excused this genocide will one day face justice, the judgment of history and of humanity. And that day arrives faster when ordinary people refuse to look away and be complicit through their silence.
As human beings witnessing horrors we will never forget, we demand—loudly, unapologetically, and without compromise—that our governments:
- Use all political, diplomatic and military means at their disposal to stop Israel’s genocidal crimes;
- Open all of Gaza’s borders to allow humanitarian aid into the enclave;
- Immediately and unconditionally call for the release of the thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli detention without charge or trial;
- Support the suspension and expulsion of Israel from the United Nations and all international institutions until it complies with international law;
- Impose a full military, economic, and trade embargo on Israel;
- Issue arrest warrants for all of Israel’s political and military leaders involved in implementing genocidal policies;
- Expel the Israeli ambassador and recall our own from Tel Aviv;
- Publicly and definitively reject the very flawed IHRA definition of antisemitism;
- Uphold and defend the rights of Palestinians to freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly;
- Require the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from all occupied Palestinian territories;
- Pursue accountability through international courts and under the concept of universal jurisdiction for every individual and every individual and institution responsible for crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza.
This is not a list of distant ideals. These are
the minimum conditions of justice. Anything less is continued
partnership in a crime against humanity.
The eyes of the world are watching those who have power to act. The future of an entire people—and the soul of the so-called “rules-based international order”—now depends on whether our leaders choose cowardice and political expediency or courage.
Do not wait for the perfect moment. Do not wait until the last house in Gaza is rubble and the last Palestinian child has been silenced.
It is our duty as beings who claim to be human to rise up, speak out, organize, disrupt, and demand until there is justice, safety and freedom for Palestinians.
We cannot bend or break. We cannot forget, and we will not forgive complicity.
Free Palestine—from the river to the sea—and from the river to the sea, justice will prevail.
© 2026 The View From Here. © 2026 Fareed Khan. All Rights Reserved.
The eyes of the world are watching those who have power to act. The future of an entire people—and the soul of the so-called “rules-based international order”—now depends on whether our leaders choose cowardice and political expediency or courage.
Do not wait for the perfect moment. Do not wait until the last house in Gaza is rubble and the last Palestinian child has been silenced.
It is our duty as beings who claim to be human to rise up, speak out, organize, disrupt, and demand until there is justice, safety and freedom for Palestinians.
We cannot bend or break. We cannot forget, and we will not forgive complicity.
Free Palestine—from the river to the sea—and from the river to the sea, justice will prevail.
© 2026 The View From Here. © 2026 Fareed Khan. All Rights Reserved.
