Geneva, August 11 - I have spent years documenting the unfolding genocide in Gaza. Critics keep waving around “evidence”— casualty ratios, Hamas’s own videos of embedding in civilian areas, intercepted communications, demographic data showing population growth rather than destruction, the absence of systematic intent under the Genocide Convention’s actual legal standard. They call much of what circulates online fabricated or exaggerated. Fine. Concede, for the sake of argument, that every single piece of supporting material is fake. That changes nothing!
Genocide is not a matter of forensic pedantry. It is a moral and political reality that exists independently of whatever photographs, statistics, or court findings the powerful manage to manufacture or suppress. The lived experience of Palestinians, the structural logic of settler-colonial elimination, and the clear pattern of dehumanization establish the crime beyond any requirement for “proof” that would satisfy those already invested in denial. Just because the evidence is fake does not mean there is no genocide. Vibes over facts!
This principle applies with equal force to other historical questions that some of our allies raise. The Palestine cause has long attracted people who question the mainstream narrative of the Holocaust. They point to anomalies, claim documents were forged, or insist the numbers do not add up. I have been criticized for platforming or declining to denounce certain of these voices. Yet the same logic holds: just because all the evidence for the Holocaust is real does not mean there was a Holocaust — in the exclusive, sacralized sense that some insist upon in order to silence critique of Israeli policy. Historical events, like contemporary ones, are interpreted through the lens of justice. If the evidence can be set aside when it inconveniently fails to prove Israeli genocide, consistency demands we not treat other bodies of evidence as uniquely beyond interrogation when they are deployed to protect the same state.
Those who obsess over the factual status of either event miss the point. Power produces its own archives. The oppressed know what they know. In Gaza the intent is written in the ruins and the displacement, regardless of what any subsequent investigation claims to find. Every REAL scholar knows ruins = genocide.
The same standard of interpretive freedom that lets us maintain the genocide finding in the face of contrary data must extend to those whose skepticism about earlier catastrophes arises from solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. To demand otherwise is to impose a hierarchy of suffering that serves only the oppressor - and axiomatically, Jews are oppressors. So not only did the Holocaust not happen, but Jews deserved what happened.
The Gaza Genocide proves it.
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