What happens in Australia if Israel gets away with genocide?

A repost from 30 October 2025

Yes, the first response to that question is rightly, who cares? It is Palestine and Palestinians who should be the focus of any such question. When it comes to Israel getting away with murder, it is Palestinians that have paid the price.

That is increasingly self-evident as will be explored further, but the world has witnessed this genocide nightly live-streamed into our homes. We have seen the starvation, the families mowed down while trying to get food, the more than 300 journalists murdered, the hospitals bombed, schools razed to the ground, we have seen the footage of the extraordinary violence of settlers terrorising communities in the West Bank. We heard the voice of Hind Rajab as an Israeli tank unit fired 355 bullets into her and her family.

Whether we have had our faces pressed up against the screen, caught it all out the corner of our eye, or resolutely, belligerently, looked the other way, there is no way to not know what we all now know. Israel committed, and continues to commit, genocide in broad daylight and we have all watched, sometimes in horror, as they did so. We are in relationship with this state-sanctioned violence and we must pick our way through its implications for us or suffer the consequences.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel has found Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Regarding the detention of Palestinians in........

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