Zones of genocide, Gaza, West Bank, Southern Lebanon…
JVL Introduction
Here Martin Shaw, using the official definiton of genocide argues that what is happening in the West Bank is also a genocide. He stresses, as have others, that while settler violence is an important cause of hardship and displacement of Palestinians, it is not only that the IDF fails to take action against settlers but that it is actively involved in killings, displacement, demolitions and, eg imposing “closed military zones” that prevent supporters staying or arriving to witness and record what is happening. The IDF, of course, is the State’s military.
Taking the recently published BT’Selem Elimination Project Report makes it clear that it is the State that is responsible and so the welcome but too limited sanctions announced by the UK Foreign Secretary focuses only on the secondary actors. He would like BT’Selem as well as Ed Miliband to go further in terms of language as well and argues that there are different zones of genocide, includes southern Lebanon in his analysis and calls for much stronger solidarity from those who are in government across the world.
This article was originally published by Substack on Fri 18 Sep 2026. Read the original here.
We have got used to the idea of the Gaza Genocide. But what if the right frame is a variable, two- or even multi-zone Israeli Genocide?
B’tselem‘s new report on Israel’s Elimination Project shows the West Bank is a second zone of genocide – even if it doesn’t use the term. I discuss the implications for understanding and policy.
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We are living through a filmed & videoed HOLOCAUST OF PALESTINIANS‼️The PLAN DALET documented by the New Israelis in 1948 has been going on for longer than Hitlers plan of creating an Arian Race!!!
The shame is of countries complicit with evil & the greed for other peoples homes, farms & lands & lives‼️
The fact that a Labour Government was led by a Zionist whose wife & Father in law are Zionist Israelis did not help the Palestinians in fact the supply of weapons & spyware increased!
Miliband himself a Jew has stood up & said the words many have been waiting for, yet even then the Israeli supporters regard HIM A JEW as antisemitic!!!
You couldn’t make this sheer arrogance up! This should have happened years ago , this long wait has left thousands & thousands of dead Palestinians, their babies & children are still lying dead beneath their bombed homes!
We have waited with baited breath for someone somewhere to show courage & cut that umbilical cord from “ friends of Israel “ & their evil ,abhorrent attacks on civilians for decades‼️Sunce Miliband spoke look & read the vitriol & threats from that Polish maniac who continued & orchestrated this Holocaust to avoid his own prison sentence!
We need more Milibands , more Labour MPs, Ministers who are NOT on the Israeli payroll or are great pals of Israel like those Labour MPs who were given peerages for discrediting & lying that Jeremy Corbyn was an antisemite‼️
That was definitely a DISPICABLE attack on a man of integrity & should be publicly investigated & their peerages removed for complicity with Mossad & Israel‼️