We are not just bombing Gaza. We are silencing the people trying to stop it.
Human Rights Watch staffer, June 2025
Freedom of speech is now a conditional right-conditioned on silence.
The Century That Built Gaza: Mass Killing as Policy
Britain massacred 379 Indians in Amritsar to preserve colonial order. It used poison gas on Iraqis in 1920 to protect British mandate authority and extract oil. In Kenya, Britain operated concentration camps during the Mau Mau uprising, torturing over 150,000 and killing tens of thousands to suppress land redistribution movements and protect white settler dominance. It partitioned India and Palestine, creating permanent divisions, ethnic cleansing, and generations of displacement.
France slaughtered up to 45,000 Algerians in Sétif in 1945 in a single week to demonstrate colonial authority after WWII. From 1954 to 1962, it waged total war in Algeria, killing up to half a million civilians to keep Algeria French-torture, rape, village burnings, and summary executions became official policy. It used similar brutality in Madagascar, where French troops killed tens of thousands to crush a national uprising in 1947.
Germany pioneered the modern genocide. Between 1904 and 1908, it exterminated the Herero and Nama in Namibia, killing 75,000 people by driving them into the desert, poisoning wells, and building death camps. These methods-including bureaucratic murder and scientific racism-would reappear in the Holocaust. Nazi Germany killed 6 million Jews and 5 million others. It launched Operation Barbarossa to exterminate Slavs and seize Eastern land.
The United States justified mass killing through the language of freedom. In the Philippines (1899–1902), it killed hundreds of thousands to crush anti-colonial rebellion and dominate the Pacific. In Vietnam, U.S. bombing killed over 2 million civilians-villages were napalmed, crops were poisoned, entire populations were displaced. In Iraq, over 1 million civilians died due to invasion, occupation, and civil collapse. In Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, U.S. drone strikes have killed thousands-weddings, funerals, even rescue workers have been targeted.
None of these killings were mistakes. They were strategic. They were designed to break resistance, protect economic interests, and preserve imperial control. They were framed as necessary, moral, even civilizing. Just as Gaza is framed today.
The West does not learn from history because it never considers itself the villain.
Edward Said, 2003
Gaza is not a stain on this record. It is its logical continuation.
Conclusion: This Is What Empire Looks Like
Gaza is not the exception. It is the formula. A blueprint repeated from India to Algeria to Iraq. Bomb. Deny. Justify. Repeat.
The Gaza Holocaust is not happening with Western approval-it is happening with Western coordination. The weapons are theirs. The targets are theirs. The diplomatic shields are theirs. The silence is theirs.
But this time, the world is watching. Protests have swept from Jakarta to Johannesburg, from Istanbul to London. Millions now see through the script. Millions now name the genocide. The empire’s mask is slipping.
This is not collateral damage. This is the policy.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, 2024
The West does not fear genocide. It fears the end of impunity.
Gaza is not only a graveyard. It is a mirror.
The people must raise the volume and increase the temperature under the thrones of the empire’s leaders and their Arab agents.
Otherwise they won’t stop until every Palestinian is gone and history will question how did it go unchallenged…
