So the UN commission has finally said it. Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, they claim, by deliberately targeting children. The UK, ever the moral scold, demands an immediate ceasefire.
Let us put aside the emotional shrapnel for a moment and examine what this really means: not for Gaza, but for the intellectual integrity of the organisations involved. When every conflict becomes a genocide, the word loses its weight. The Holocaust was genocide.
Rwanda was genocide. Srebrenica was genocide. What we see in Gaza is a brutal, asymmetrical urban war where Hamas hides in tunnels under schools and hospitals.
To call this genocide is to cheapen the very concept. It is a rhetorical weapon wielded by those who have already decided Israel has no right to exist. Britain demanding a ceasefire is like Nero fiddling: it feels righteous but achieves nothing.
A ceasefire now would leave Hamas intact, ready to massacre again. The real scandal is not Israel’s actions but the UN’s descent into a theatre of the absurd where legal terms are used for political theatre. Shame on the UN.
Shame on Britain for playing along.
