Genocide in Gaza: Voices of Global Conscience
The December 2023 issuance of a Declaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectuals to Stop Gaza Genocide to leading civil society activists and former governmental and UN officials throughout the world recorded 127 invited signatories and over 1500 endorsers. On this basis, the Declaration’s originators, Ahmet Davutoglu and Richard Falk, invited a select number of signatories to an emergency conference in London to lend their authority to a further expression of the international community’s deepest concerns in light of the continuation of the genocidal assault on the peoples of Gaza. This book brings together the most valuable of the presentations delivered by conference participants. It provides a coherent perspective on the extreme human catastrophe that was exposed as it unfolded in real time, arousing intense responses of outrage from the peoples of the world, which failed to alter the shameless and shocking levels of active complicity on the part of several leading Western liberal democracies. The latter constituted a cynical embrace of moral hypocrisy and double standards, paralyzing the UN and ignoring the most flagrant violations of international law on Israel’s part.

The book assesses the Israeli response to the Hamas attack of October 7 from the perspective of international law and morality, as well as providing informed accounts of the inability of the UN to implement the demands of a permanent and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza. It also provides accounts of the implementation of forced evacuation, induced starvation and disease, efforts calculated to destroy the civilian population in whole or in part, Israel’s defiance of the UN, the ICJ Interim Order, and international humanitarian law in the course of transparent violations of the Genocide Convention.

At a time when neither governments nor international institutions are demonstrating either the will or the capability to act in accord with the rule of law or the popular will of the majority of the peoples of the world who have demonstrated against the genocide in their millions, these substantial essays give an overview of the extraordinary damage wrought and what can and should be done to protect Palestinian rights and construct a future that empowers Palestinians to give content to their right of self-determination rather than victimized by yet another effort to impose a solution from without or enable Israel to control the day after developments when the violence stops.
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Genocide in Gaza: Voices of Global Conscience
The December 2023 issuance of a Declaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectuals to Stop Gaza Genocide to leading civil society activists and former governmental and UN officials throughout the world recorded 127 invited signatories and over 1500 endorsers. On this basis, the Declaration’s originators, Ahmet Davutoglu and Richard Falk, invited a select number of signatories to an emergency conference in London to lend their authority to a further expression of the international community’s deepest concerns in light of the continuation of the genocidal assault on the peoples of Gaza. This book brings together the most valuable of the presentations delivered by conference participants. It provides a coherent perspective on the extreme human catastrophe that was exposed as it unfolded in real time, arousing intense responses of outrage from the peoples of the world, which failed to alter the shameless and shocking levels of active complicity on the part of several leading Western liberal democracies. The latter constituted a cynical embrace of moral hypocrisy and double standards, paralyzing the UN and ignoring the most flagrant violations of international law on Israel’s part.

The book assesses the Israeli response to the Hamas attack of October 7 from the perspective of international law and morality, as well as providing informed accounts of the inability of the UN to implement the demands of a permanent and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza. It also provides accounts of the implementation of forced evacuation, induced starvation and disease, efforts calculated to destroy the civilian population in whole or in part, Israel’s defiance of the UN, the ICJ Interim Order, and international humanitarian law in the course of transparent violations of the Genocide Convention.

At a time when neither governments nor international institutions are demonstrating either the will or the capability to act in accord with the rule of law or the popular will of the majority of the peoples of the world who have demonstrated against the genocide in their millions, these substantial essays give an overview of the extraordinary damage wrought and what can and should be done to protect Palestinian rights and construct a future that empowers Palestinians to give content to their right of self-determination rather than victimized by yet another effort to impose a solution from without or enable Israel to control the day after developments when the violence stops.
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Genocide in Gaza: Voices of Global Conscience

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The December 2023 issuance of a Declaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectuals to Stop Gaza Genocide to leading civil society activists and former governmental and UN officials throughout the world recorded 127 invited signatories and over 1500 endorsers. On this basis, the Declaration’s originators, Ahmet Davutoglu and Richard Falk, invited a select number of signatories to an emergency conference in London to lend their authority to a further expression of the international community’s deepest concerns in light of the continuation of the genocidal assault on the peoples of Gaza. This book brings together the most valuable of the presentations delivered by conference participants. It provides a coherent perspective on the extreme human catastrophe that was exposed as it unfolded in real time, arousing intense responses of outrage from the peoples of the world, which failed to alter the shameless and shocking levels of active complicity on the part of several leading Western liberal democracies. The latter constituted a cynical embrace of moral hypocrisy and double standards, paralyzing the UN and ignoring the most flagrant violations of international law on Israel’s part.

The book assesses the Israeli response to the Hamas attack of October 7 from the perspective of international law and morality, as well as providing informed accounts of the inability of the UN to implement the demands of a permanent and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza. It also provides accounts of the implementation of forced evacuation, induced starvation and disease, efforts calculated to destroy the civilian population in whole or in part, Israel’s defiance of the UN, the ICJ Interim Order, and international humanitarian law in the course of transparent violations of the Genocide Convention.

At a time when neither governments nor international institutions are demonstrating either the will or the capability to act in accord with the rule of law or the popular will of the majority of the peoples of the world who have demonstrated against the genocide in their millions, these substantial essays give an overview of the extraordinary damage wrought and what can and should be done to protect Palestinian rights and construct a future that empowers Palestinians to give content to their right of self-determination rather than victimized by yet another effort to impose a solution from without or enable Israel to control the day after developments when the violence stops.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781963892024
Publisher: Clarity Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/01/2025
Pages: 468
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Ahmet Davutoglu is former Foreign Minister and Prime Minister of Turkiye. He is the founder and leader of the Future Party that is represented in the Turkish Parliament, author of Systemic Earthquake: The Struggle for World Order (2019), and prominent
academic in International Relations.

Richard Falk is a leading international law professor, prominent activist, prolific author, and a pioneer thinker dedicated to peace and justice. During forty years at Princeton University Falk was active in seeking an end to the Vietnam War, a better understanding of Iran, a just solution for Israel/Palestine, and improved democracy in South Korea, South Africa, India, and the Philippines. He also served as UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine. His books include A Study of Future Worlds, Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine, and Public Intellectual.

Mustafa Barghouti is General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative

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From the Foreword:
The atrocities committed in Gaza by the Israeli army are not only detrimental to the people of Gaza but violate international law as well. The actions
of Israel are undermining international and humanitarian law, about which
the West claims to care.
Palestinians discovered the double standards of many Western governments when comparing their attitudes towards Russia and Ukraine with that
towards Israel and Palestine. Russia was subjected to harsh sanctions after
attacking Ukraine while Israel was provided with 50,000 tons of explosives
by the United States, in addition to thousands of weapons from other Western
countries such as Britain and Germany.
The world order will never be the same after the genocide in Gaza.
People everywhere are legitimately asking: “Where are the so-called Western
values of human rights, democracy, and international law?”
Why are Palestinians being forced to cope with Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide? Why are we Palestinians mistreated by many European
and American governments that refuse to treat us as equal human beings
because of their racist bias?
What will be the impact of this ongoing genocide on the whole international order created after World War II? Will those in power not be held
accountable and enjoy impunity for breaking the most fundamental rules of
international law? Will the world continue to be run by the rule of power
rather than by the rule of law?
The 7th of October attack was not the cause of the current political situation, rather it is the result of 76 years of ethnic cleansing that the Palestinian
people were subjected to by Israel since 1948 when 52 massacres were committed by Israeli military gangs and 520 Palestinian towns and villages were
demolished, erased as part of the massive ethnic cleansing operation. Seventy
percent of the population of Gaza were already refugees, forcibly displaced
by Israel in 1948, and once again internally displaced in 2024, during which
they were forced to move 6 to 10 times in the course of one year.
The 7th of October was also a result of 57 years of Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza, that evolved
into the most extreme system of apartheid in modern history. Recently it has
featured 17 years of a ruthless Israeli siege of Gaza, which resulted in 94% of
its water being polluted or saturated by salt, and a destroyed economy with
80% of young college graduates left unemployed.

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