The nations
that are complicit—the US, Canada, Germany, the UK, and others—aren't just
bystanders, they are architects of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and have shown
their inhumanity with their inaction to stop Gaza's horrors.
By Fareed Khan
A version of this article can be found on Substack.
We have
often heard political leaders talk about “Western humanity” over the decades.
But the phrase is now a sick joke. A bedtime fable for adults who want to
believe that their governments are the “good guys”. After more than two years
of Israeli bombardment, engineered famine, and industrial-scale murder in Gaza,
the fairy tale of Western governments being defenders of human rights or
humanity is dead.
Over the
last 25 months the self-anointed guardians of the so-called “rules-based
international order” have proven they are nothing but a criminal cabal heading
so-called “Christian” nations that weaponize international law against the
powerless and suspend it for the powerful and their friends. They have shown
that anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia runs deeper in Washington,
London, Berlin, and other capitals in the Western alliance than any commitment
to human life.
As children we are told that monsters live only in myths and fairy tales. As adults we learn the terrifying truth. Monsters live among us, they are always human, they wear suits and ties, and they lead nations like Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. What else but monstrous hatred explains the refusal to stop Israel's genocidal slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, even after every single Israeli hostage has been returned? What else explains a refusal to act when major human rights organizations, hundreds of genocide and Holocaust scholars, the United Nations and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has labelled Israel's actions as genocide?
Look at the timeline from the current bleak vantage point. The latest “ceasefire” was sold to the world as simple—if Hamas returned all Israeli hostages Israel would stop their military assault on Palestinians. The last living hostages were freed weeks ago. Even the bodies of the deceased have been repatriated. Yet Israel's murder spree continues. In the past month alone—during the so-called ceasefire—Israeli forces have murdered another 242 Palestinians, including 85 children, while injuring 619 more with live fire and tank shells. On November 19th, in Khan Younis, 33 civilians waiting for flour were shredded by an Israeli airstrike. This is not merely a breach of the ceasefire, but rather proof that the ceasefire was always a lie to allow Israel to rearm and continue its genocidal crimes.
The scale of the crimes are beyond comprehension. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, one of the few organizations still able to document on the ground, reports that as of October 2025 Israel has killed at least 75,190 Palestinians in Gaza—including 21,310 children and 13,987 women—with 173,200 wounded and tens of thousands facing lifelong disability. But these official figures are grotesque undercounts. Israeli academic Yaakov Garb, using satellite imagery and data from the Israeli military, published a report via Harvard Dataverse which estimates that between 377,000 and 400,000 Palestinians have simply “disappeared”—their bodies blown apart or buried beneath 51 million tons of rubble. Australian academics Richard Hil and Gideon Polya, factoring in direct killings plus deaths from starvation, disease, and the total collapse of Gaza's healthcare system, calculated over 680,000 excess deaths by April 2025 alone. A number that is likely to be far higher today.
This is the Nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe”) multiplied—a catastrophe not born in 2023, but forged in the fires of 1948, when Zionist militias unleashed a calculated campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing to carve out a Jewish state from the land of Palestine. Over 750,000 Palestinians—more than half the non-Jewish population—was violently expelled from their homes in what historians like Ilan Pappé have unflinchingly documented as the crime of ethnic cleansing. It began with a blueprint drafted in 1948 aimed at “clearing” Palestinian villages to secure strategic corridors for the nascent Israeli state. Massacres followed, like the infamous Deir Yassin slaughter on April 9, 1948 where Irgun and Lehi terrorists gunned down hundreds of villagers, including women and children. By war's end, 531 Palestinian villages were wiped from the map, their centuries old olive groves and orchards torched, wells poisoned, and inhabitants herded like cattle toward Gaza, the West Bank, or exile in Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria—creating the world's longest unresolved refugee crisis, with 6.1 million descendants still denied the right of return today.
If the Nakba was the overture, Gaza's horrors are the crescendo—a genocide that not only echoes the Holocaust but indicts its solemn vow of “Never Again” as a hollow lie. The Holocaust, that meticulously documented abomination that claimed 11 million lives, including six million Jews, was a six-year frenzy of industrialized death, hidden from prying eyes until Allied boots kicked down the gates of Nazi concentration camps in 1945. Gaza's slaughter, by contrast, is a brazen spectacle, live-streamed in high-definition horror—drones assassinating aid-seekers, so-called “precision” bombs vaporizing hundreds in tents, emaciated toddlers crying as starvation ravages their bodies, and even Israeli soldiers flaunting their crimes on TikTok. Where Nazis shrouded the cattle cars filled with their victims in secrecy, Israel's genocidal killing machine operates under global spotlights, with impunity.
Israeli scholars like Raz Segal, Amos Goldberg and Omer Bartov decry Israel’s actions as settler-colonial genocide, a perversion where “Never Again” mutates into “Never Again to Us,” dooming brown and Muslim bodies. The perversity deepens with the duration of the criminal acts. Where the Holocaust's terror ended with the defeat of the Nazis, Gaza is a 77-year dirge of attrition, only lacking the moral outrage that toppled Hitler.
Ha’aretz polls reveal the depth of the rot and anti-Palestinian hate in Israeli society. More than 80% of Jewish Israelis back ethnically cleansing all Gazans, while 47% endorse the mass slaughter of every Palestinian, children included, echoing the Nazi dehumanization that once targeted Jews as “vermin.” This is an escalation which shows that Israeli society has sunk to lows last seen in Nazi Germany, and illustrates that Israel's actions have the social licence of almost half of Israeli Jews.
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ is one of the few things that gives hope to Palestinians seeking justice. Armed with their own research and additional data from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem and the UN, the ICJ case stands as a lone legal bulwark against Israel, yet faces US threats and sanctions on truth-tellers like UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Gaza surpasses the Holocaust not in raw numbers but in its “prolonged generational agony,” a structural evil sustained for decades by Israeli cruelty and Western support, where grandparents fled Zionist massacres in 1948 only for their grandchildren to perish during a two year long genocide. This moral hierarchy—Jewish suffering enshrined in memorials while Palestinian agony is dismissed as “tragic” and “collateral damage”—mirrors forgotten horrors like the Congo genocide of the early 20th Century under Belgium's King Leopold where 10 million were killed, or Winston Churchill's orchestrated Bengal Famine in 1943 where three million were starved.
Those nations that are complicit—the US, Canada, Germany, the UK, and others—aren't just bystanders, they are architects which, with their silence and inaction to stop Gaza's horrors, are no less criminal than those who wore Nazi uniforms as they slaughtered Jews. The West knew Gaza was a genocide from the very first weeks because the experts made it clear that it was. Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal called it a “textbook case of genocide” before October 2023 was even over. By the end of that month more than 800 genocide scholars and international-law experts issued a public warning that Israel was committing genocide in real time. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor branded it “the most transparent genocide in human history.” The ICJ called Israel's actions “plausible genocide,” and ordered them to prevent genocidal acts in January 2024. But none of it mattered. The US ignored the words of those who had studied the crime for decades, vetoed every meaningful UN resolution to halt the slaughter quickly, shipped billions more in military hardware to Israel as it committed atrocities, while Israel ignored the ICJ’s judicial orders, and global community’s condemnations.
There is no complexity here. This is anti-Palestinian hatred plain and simple, so deeply embedded in Western governments, media and civil society institutions that it's a part of their cultural and political DNA. It's clear that Palestinians are not seen as human in the corridors of Western power, the same way Jews weren't considered human in the halls of European power in centuries past. They are an obstacle, a demographic problem, “human animals” in the words of Israeli leaders, a term borrowed from European history once used to describe Jews. The same governments that weep crocodile tears over the Holocaust now fund, arm, and defend a 21st-century Holocaust in Gaza.
The West's failure to take action to halt the Gaza genocide has shown us that monsters are real and they walk among us, and they lead us. So let's never talk again about Western “humanity” nor Canada’s defence of “international rule of law” again. Let's see Western leaders for what they are—criminals and monsters. And those of us that have a moral compass, let's join together to build the just society that former prime minister Pierre Trudeau once spoke of more than half a century ago.
© 2025 The View From Here. © 2025 Fareed Khan. All Rights Reserved.
As children we are told that monsters live only in myths and fairy tales. As adults we learn the terrifying truth. Monsters live among us, they are always human, they wear suits and ties, and they lead nations like Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. What else but monstrous hatred explains the refusal to stop Israel's genocidal slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, even after every single Israeli hostage has been returned? What else explains a refusal to act when major human rights organizations, hundreds of genocide and Holocaust scholars, the United Nations and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has labelled Israel's actions as genocide?
Look at the timeline from the current bleak vantage point. The latest “ceasefire” was sold to the world as simple—if Hamas returned all Israeli hostages Israel would stop their military assault on Palestinians. The last living hostages were freed weeks ago. Even the bodies of the deceased have been repatriated. Yet Israel's murder spree continues. In the past month alone—during the so-called ceasefire—Israeli forces have murdered another 242 Palestinians, including 85 children, while injuring 619 more with live fire and tank shells. On November 19th, in Khan Younis, 33 civilians waiting for flour were shredded by an Israeli airstrike. This is not merely a breach of the ceasefire, but rather proof that the ceasefire was always a lie to allow Israel to rearm and continue its genocidal crimes.
The scale of the crimes are beyond comprehension. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, one of the few organizations still able to document on the ground, reports that as of October 2025 Israel has killed at least 75,190 Palestinians in Gaza—including 21,310 children and 13,987 women—with 173,200 wounded and tens of thousands facing lifelong disability. But these official figures are grotesque undercounts. Israeli academic Yaakov Garb, using satellite imagery and data from the Israeli military, published a report via Harvard Dataverse which estimates that between 377,000 and 400,000 Palestinians have simply “disappeared”—their bodies blown apart or buried beneath 51 million tons of rubble. Australian academics Richard Hil and Gideon Polya, factoring in direct killings plus deaths from starvation, disease, and the total collapse of Gaza's healthcare system, calculated over 680,000 excess deaths by April 2025 alone. A number that is likely to be far higher today.
This is the Nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe”) multiplied—a catastrophe not born in 2023, but forged in the fires of 1948, when Zionist militias unleashed a calculated campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing to carve out a Jewish state from the land of Palestine. Over 750,000 Palestinians—more than half the non-Jewish population—was violently expelled from their homes in what historians like Ilan Pappé have unflinchingly documented as the crime of ethnic cleansing. It began with a blueprint drafted in 1948 aimed at “clearing” Palestinian villages to secure strategic corridors for the nascent Israeli state. Massacres followed, like the infamous Deir Yassin slaughter on April 9, 1948 where Irgun and Lehi terrorists gunned down hundreds of villagers, including women and children. By war's end, 531 Palestinian villages were wiped from the map, their centuries old olive groves and orchards torched, wells poisoned, and inhabitants herded like cattle toward Gaza, the West Bank, or exile in Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria—creating the world's longest unresolved refugee crisis, with 6.1 million descendants still denied the right of return today.
If the Nakba was the overture, Gaza's horrors are the crescendo—a genocide that not only echoes the Holocaust but indicts its solemn vow of “Never Again” as a hollow lie. The Holocaust, that meticulously documented abomination that claimed 11 million lives, including six million Jews, was a six-year frenzy of industrialized death, hidden from prying eyes until Allied boots kicked down the gates of Nazi concentration camps in 1945. Gaza's slaughter, by contrast, is a brazen spectacle, live-streamed in high-definition horror—drones assassinating aid-seekers, so-called “precision” bombs vaporizing hundreds in tents, emaciated toddlers crying as starvation ravages their bodies, and even Israeli soldiers flaunting their crimes on TikTok. Where Nazis shrouded the cattle cars filled with their victims in secrecy, Israel's genocidal killing machine operates under global spotlights, with impunity.
Israeli scholars like Raz Segal, Amos Goldberg and Omer Bartov decry Israel’s actions as settler-colonial genocide, a perversion where “Never Again” mutates into “Never Again to Us,” dooming brown and Muslim bodies. The perversity deepens with the duration of the criminal acts. Where the Holocaust's terror ended with the defeat of the Nazis, Gaza is a 77-year dirge of attrition, only lacking the moral outrage that toppled Hitler.
Ha’aretz polls reveal the depth of the rot and anti-Palestinian hate in Israeli society. More than 80% of Jewish Israelis back ethnically cleansing all Gazans, while 47% endorse the mass slaughter of every Palestinian, children included, echoing the Nazi dehumanization that once targeted Jews as “vermin.” This is an escalation which shows that Israeli society has sunk to lows last seen in Nazi Germany, and illustrates that Israel's actions have the social licence of almost half of Israeli Jews.
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ is one of the few things that gives hope to Palestinians seeking justice. Armed with their own research and additional data from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem and the UN, the ICJ case stands as a lone legal bulwark against Israel, yet faces US threats and sanctions on truth-tellers like UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Gaza surpasses the Holocaust not in raw numbers but in its “prolonged generational agony,” a structural evil sustained for decades by Israeli cruelty and Western support, where grandparents fled Zionist massacres in 1948 only for their grandchildren to perish during a two year long genocide. This moral hierarchy—Jewish suffering enshrined in memorials while Palestinian agony is dismissed as “tragic” and “collateral damage”—mirrors forgotten horrors like the Congo genocide of the early 20th Century under Belgium's King Leopold where 10 million were killed, or Winston Churchill's orchestrated Bengal Famine in 1943 where three million were starved.
Those nations that are complicit—the US, Canada, Germany, the UK, and others—aren't just bystanders, they are architects which, with their silence and inaction to stop Gaza's horrors, are no less criminal than those who wore Nazi uniforms as they slaughtered Jews. The West knew Gaza was a genocide from the very first weeks because the experts made it clear that it was. Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal called it a “textbook case of genocide” before October 2023 was even over. By the end of that month more than 800 genocide scholars and international-law experts issued a public warning that Israel was committing genocide in real time. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor branded it “the most transparent genocide in human history.” The ICJ called Israel's actions “plausible genocide,” and ordered them to prevent genocidal acts in January 2024. But none of it mattered. The US ignored the words of those who had studied the crime for decades, vetoed every meaningful UN resolution to halt the slaughter quickly, shipped billions more in military hardware to Israel as it committed atrocities, while Israel ignored the ICJ’s judicial orders, and global community’s condemnations.
There is no complexity here. This is anti-Palestinian hatred plain and simple, so deeply embedded in Western governments, media and civil society institutions that it's a part of their cultural and political DNA. It's clear that Palestinians are not seen as human in the corridors of Western power, the same way Jews weren't considered human in the halls of European power in centuries past. They are an obstacle, a demographic problem, “human animals” in the words of Israeli leaders, a term borrowed from European history once used to describe Jews. The same governments that weep crocodile tears over the Holocaust now fund, arm, and defend a 21st-century Holocaust in Gaza.
The West's failure to take action to halt the Gaza genocide has shown us that monsters are real and they walk among us, and they lead us. So let's never talk again about Western “humanity” nor Canada’s defence of “international rule of law” again. Let's see Western leaders for what they are—criminals and monsters. And those of us that have a moral compass, let's join together to build the just society that former prime minister Pierre Trudeau once spoke of more than half a century ago.
© 2025 The View From Here. © 2025 Fareed Khan. All Rights Reserved.
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