Earlier this week our Director Lord Singh of Wimbledon contributed to a debate on Israel: Royal College of Defence Studies, earlier this week. He said:
‘My Lords, a UN report has found clear evidence of Israeli genocide in Gaza. There is also a campaign of terror by Israelis in the West Bank against Palestinians. Would the Minister agree that the Government of a country that carries out such atrocities should be unequivocally condemned rather than supported in their mission?’
The Minister, Baroness Chapman of Darlington disagreed with the framing of Israel’s actions as genocide. However, The United Nations commission inquiry referred to by Lord Singh, is clear that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, suggesting there are reasonable grounds to conclude four out of five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since Israel’s response to the October 7th massacre by Hamas. This comes in the wake of a letter earlier this month from the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy to the chair of the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee, in which the United Kingdom concluded Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza.
Jagjit Singh from the US recently wrote to the NSO on the matter, we share his words in full below:
The United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy have disgraced themselves before history. By sending weapons to Israel, they have not only abandoned morality but actively abetted mass murder. Israel, morally bankrupt and intoxicated by impunity, is deliberately blocking massive humanitarian aid—food, water, medicine—while its bombs and bullets shatter Palestinian lives. This is not self-defense. This is the cold machinery of genocide.
How can Washington justify arming a regime that starves children in plain sight? How can Europe, scarred by the Nazi Holocaust, sanction crimes that so grotesquely echo its darkest past? The world swore “Never Again.” Yet, through American weapons and European complicity, “Never Again” is happening again—this time to Palestinians.
Every American must face this truth: silence is complicity, and complicity is guilt. Our government, in our name, is underwriting the murder of innocents. Enough is enough. Stop the weapons. Open the borders for food and medicine. End U.S. and European protection for Israel’s horrific crimes.
History will remember who stood against this horror and who allowed it to continue. The time to act is not tomorrow, not someday—but now.
ENDS