As expressed in the UN General Assembly, the vast majority of the world’s governments and peoples agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and now the West Bank.

The main supporters of Israel — the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the settler colonial states — have all expropriated their indigenous populations and find little disagreement with Israel doing the same.

What an abysmal state Australia is in when we deliberately turn away from the mass murder of Palestinians. If it was white Christians or Jews suffering this fate, the genocide would have stopped long ago.

The UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs has cried out that a” flood” of aid is urgently needed or 14,000 babies will die in the next 48 hours.

Our so-called “leaders” in church, politics, universities and media have the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinians on their hands. To say nothing to condemn genocide is to choose the side of war criminals in the Israeli Government and IDF. And that is what our “leaders” have done. Frightened by the Zionist lobby, they say nothing.

What will they be able to say when they are asked in future, “What did you do to try and stop the genocide?”

Only the US veto in the Security Council prevents full disclosure of the barbarity of the IDF, supported by the people of Israel. We have been lied to time and time again that the IDF was only targeting Hamas and not civilians.

Since 2018, Netanyahu has allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza through its crossings to strengthen Hamas against the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas.

Now we are told by Netanyahu that Hamas is the epitome of terrorist evil and must be destroyed. Israel was founded with the help of three Zionist terrorist organisations – the Haganah, the Irgun and the Stern Gang. The real terrorists are now in the Israeli Government and the IDF.

Netanyahu has, for decades, opposed a two-state solution and our timid politicians prattle on about it, but do nothing to seriously advance it. The extremists in the Zionist lobby don’t want a two-state solution either. They want Israeli occupation of all of Palestine.

So much of our media in in thrall to the Zionist lobby and its propaganda. They deliberately manufacture consent for the genocide. Truth is discounted. Ignorance is widespread. The Zionist-concocted campaign is a disgrace to anyone who is truly human and cares for the truth.

There is a campaign in the Western world by the Zionist lobby to assert that criticism of the Israeli Government’s genocide in Gaza is antisemitic. “Antisemitism” has become a cloak to hide the genocide, mass murder and displacement of Palestinian people.

We are told to heed the hurt feelings of Zionists, some on university campuses, who support genocide or have wilfully chosen to ignore it.

These hypersensitive souls should not be surprised when peaceful demonstrators point out to them and others that the country they are supporting is committing criminal violence and genocide. Surely the Palestinian mothers of 18,000 murdered children have more reason to be hurt than those in Australia who play the victim to divert attention from genocide? The real victims are in Gaza, not on Australian university campuses.

University vice-chancellors dare not disobey the Zionist lobby.

The historic victims of the Holocaust are now inflicting another holocaust on the Palestinian people. This has been ongoing for a century, seizing Palestinian land, killing the people and destroying their communities We are expected to ignore it.

The genocidal intent of Israel is abundantly clear as numerous United Nations resolutions, the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court have made clear. The leader of Israel is an indicted war criminal. In the US, he gets support from a convicted felon when he should be arrested and extradited to The Hague for trial.

But the Zionist lobby is hell-bent on stopping criticism of the behaviour of Israel and its criminal leadership.

Under illegal Israeli occupation, Palestinians have a right to rebel. The Zionist strategy to label people who criticise Israel as antisemitic should be exposed as a cover for Israeli genocide.

The lives of Palestinians killed in the Gaza genocide are as valuable as the lives lost by Jews in the European Holocaust. “Never again” must apply not just to Jews, but to Palestinians and all humanity.

We must not allow the weaponisation of antisemitism to crush legitimate criticism of the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank. To criticise the Israel genocide is not antisemitic. It is a plea for justice and peace.

Many Germans told us after World War II that they did not know about the Holocaust. Today we have no excuse that we don’t know. The holocaust today is live streamed across the world.

When will our so-called leaders call the bluff of the Zionist lobby and speak clearly about justice and peace for Palestinians, Jews and all humanity?