Report Launch: Palestine—Genocide, Apartheid, and Occupation, How Islamophobia and Anti-Palestinian Racism have led to the Genocide and Persecution of Palestinians
March 15th, 2024
On this International Day to Combat Islamophobia, Justice For All Canada has launched a landmark report about the live genocide taking place in Palestine, including its link to Islamophobia and Anti-Palestinian racism. Human rights scholarship and legal analysis support the assertion that Israel has been committing an “incremental genocide,” dramatically escalating since October 7, 2023. Over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military, including more than 12,000 children. The critical report confirms this reality by detailing decades of persecution that Palestinians have been subjected to by the Israeli government, including mass killings, displacement, military occupation, and crimes of apartheid. The publication also explores how Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism, the same ideologies that established a brutal system of apartheid in Palestine, are causing the genocide of Palestinians. It details how the “Global War on Terror” was built on hostility towards the Palestinian liberation movement, and its continued justification to mask the Islamophobia driving Israeli military campaigns.
The report further defines and analyzes the ongoing genocide according to the Genocide Convention and the “10 Stages of Genocide”, an established method of categorizing gross human rights violations culminating in various levels of global genocide, as well as the international laws that apply. It documents the plethora of hate speech and incitement by Israeli officials which dehumanize Palestinians, historically and through the present and explores the impact of this genocide on Palestinian children in particular. The critical research compiled with a human rights and legal focus presents the growing evidence of the systematic persecution, killings, and displacement of Palestinians, constituting genocide under international law, including;
1) A stark picture of the atrocities perpetrated against Palestinians, including mass killings, forcible displacement, and the denial of basic rights and freedoms.
2) Complicity of the Israeli government in perpetuating Islamophobic beliefs and anti-Palestinian racism, which have fueled violence and discrimination against Palestinians for decades.
3) The devastating effects of the genocide on Palestinian children, who are among the most vulnerable victims of this ongoing crisis. Thousands of children have been killed, injured, or traumatized by the violence, leaving a generation scarred by the horrors of war and oppression.
Background: The United Nations designated March 15th as International Day to Combat Islamophobia. Last year on this day, Justice for All published a similar report outlining the overall genocide of Muslims in four countries of concern. Justice for All Canada is a human rights advocacy organization with consultative status at the United Nations. Our government and bureaucratic relations with the UN and government officials across North America have been instrumental in shaping the discourse around genocide over the last 30 years, particularly for Uyghur, Rohingya, Sri Lankan and Indian Muslim minorities. Our organizational presence first grew out of advocacy efforts challenging the Bosnian genocide. Currently, our teams oversee pivotal campaigns to safeguard the fundamental human rights of at-risk or impacted communities by reinforcing the universal human rights framework articulated in the Geneva Convention and respect for international law as laid out in the charter of the United Nations.
For media inquiries, contact: Tazeen Hasan [email protected]
On this International Day to Combat Islamophobia, Justice For All Canada has launched a landmark report about the live genocide taking place in Palestine, including its link to Islamophobia and Anti-Palestinian racism. Human rights scholarship and legal analysis support the assertion that Israel has been committing an “incremental genocide,” dramatically escalating since October 7, 2023. Over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military, including more than 12,000 children. The critical report confirms this reality by detailing decades of persecution that Palestinians have been subjected to by the Israeli government, including mass killings, displacement, military occupation, and crimes of apartheid. The publication also explores how Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism, the same ideologies that established a brutal system of apartheid in Palestine, are causing the genocide of Palestinians. It details how the “Global War on Terror” was built on hostility towards the Palestinian liberation movement, and its continued justification to mask the Islamophobia driving Israeli military campaigns.
The report further defines and analyzes the ongoing genocide according to the Genocide Convention and the “10 Stages of Genocide”, an established method of categorizing gross human rights violations culminating in various levels of global genocide, as well as the international laws that apply. It documents the plethora of hate speech and incitement by Israeli officials which dehumanize Palestinians, historically and through the present and explores the impact of this genocide on Palestinian children in particular. The critical research compiled with a human rights and legal focus presents the growing evidence of the systematic persecution, killings, and displacement of Palestinians, constituting genocide under international law, including;
1) A stark picture of the atrocities perpetrated against Palestinians, including mass killings, forcible displacement, and the denial of basic rights and freedoms.
2) Complicity of the Israeli government in perpetuating Islamophobic beliefs and anti-Palestinian racism, which have fueled violence and discrimination against Palestinians for decades.
3) The devastating effects of the genocide on Palestinian children, who are among the most vulnerable victims of this ongoing crisis. Thousands of children have been killed, injured, or traumatized by the violence, leaving a generation scarred by the horrors of war and oppression.
Background: The United Nations designated March 15th as International Day to Combat Islamophobia. Last year on this day, Justice for All published a similar report outlining the overall genocide of Muslims in four countries of concern. Justice for All Canada is a human rights advocacy organization with consultative status at the United Nations. Our government and bureaucratic relations with the UN and government officials across North America have been instrumental in shaping the discourse around genocide over the last 30 years, particularly for Uyghur, Rohingya, Sri Lankan and Indian Muslim minorities. Our organizational presence first grew out of advocacy efforts challenging the Bosnian genocide. Currently, our teams oversee pivotal campaigns to safeguard the fundamental human rights of at-risk or impacted communities by reinforcing the universal human rights framework articulated in the Geneva Convention and respect for international law as laid out in the charter of the United Nations.
For media inquiries, contact: Tazeen Hasan [email protected]