The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions calls on the international community – the UN, governments and peoples – to hold Israel accountable for its decades of genocidal colonization.

Israeli has actively targeted and decimated the healthcare sector in Gaza. Withholding or interrupting health care is a way of preventing Palestinians from living, even as they await death.

Frequent Israeli pogroms and now the levelling of Gaza point to an increasingly genocidal Israeli society. But Zionism was genocidal before most Zionists were, and it has been catching up to Israelis ever since.

Israel has already dropped more bombs on Gaza in six days than the U.S. dropped on Afghanistan in a single year. Now, the Israeli military is ordering over one million Palestinian civilians to flee their homes. This is genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Smotrich’s genocidal pronouncements take inspiration from a long history that belongs to the left as much as it does to the right, beginning with the Labor Zionism of David Ben Gurion.

There is a hegemony that regards the European holocaust as more tragic and horrific than any other experience that people have had to endure. That is simply not true.

Recently unearthed statements from Israel’s founders endorsing ethnic cleansing and violence during the Nakba will only be shocking if you are not familiar with the long history of Zionist leaders and thinkers showing genocidal intent towards Palestinians.

As the word “apartheid” grows in popularity to describe Israeli oppression of Palestinians it is helpful to revisit another concept defined in the mid 20th century: genocide.

The push to acknowledge the genocide on a federal level has hit roadblocks for decades, but recent geopolitical events have forced the issue. On October 29 the House passed H.Res 296, a resolution that recognizes the mass-killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War 1 as a genocide. While the measure passed overwhelmingly by a vote of 405-11, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is facing criticism for simply voting “present.”

While apartheid, military occupation, and even ethnic cleansing, have at times surfaced in mainstream discussions, these phenomena are not Israel’s ultimate crimes. They are means to control Palestinian lives and, as such, symptoms of the ongoing Nakba. But they are effectively part of a structure that is rarely verbalized: Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian population.