Why We Call It Genocide
Since October 2023, Israel has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians in Gaza*, the majority of them women and children. It has systematically destroyed hospitals, schools, and mosques, blocked food, water, and medicine, and displaced nearly the entire population. It has killed more journalists than any conflict in modern recorded history.
These are not the byproducts of war. They are its documented, deliberate features.
The International Court of Justice has found it plausible that Israel is committing genocide. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch agree. The International Association of Genocide Scholars, the world’s largest professional body of genocide experts, with 500 members including Holocaust scholars, passed a resolution with 86% support declaring that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. Leading scholars in the field are described as “surprisingly unanimous” on this conclusion. The United States has funded, armed, and shielded these actions at every turn. That makes this our responsibility too.
* The 72,000 figure reflects confirmed deaths reported by Gaza’s Health Ministry. Multiple peer-reviewed studies and independent researchers, including a landmark analysis published in The Lancet, estimate the true death toll could exceed several hundred thousand when accounting for indirect deaths from disease, starvation, and the collapse of Gaza’s medical system.
Latest Coverage
- A Judge Blocked the Deportation of Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi. The Government Was Trying to Expel Him for His Politics.An immigration judge has blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian permanent U.S. resident and Columbia University student who led anti-genocide protests on campus. His attorneys say the Trump administration sought his removal specifically because of his political activism. United Voices calls the ruling a win for free speech — and a warning about how far the administration has been willing to go.
- Randy Fine’s Anti-Muslim Dehumanization Has No Place in CongressUnited Voices condemns Rep. Randy Fine’s dehumanizing comments about Muslims and calls on House leadership to take action to stop anti-Muslim hate from being normalized in Congress.
- Killing of Gaza Children Exposes Fragility of Ceasefire as Civilian Death Toll ClimbsUnited Voices condemns Israeli airstrikes that killed approximately 30 Palestinians, including children, warning that continued civilian deaths during a declared ceasefire undermine its credibility.
- Dutch Police Allegedly Attacked Two Muslim Women. Protesters in Utrecht Took to the Streets. The World Should Be Watching.Protests erupted in Utrecht, Netherlands after reports emerged of racist police violence targeting two Muslim women. The incident has drawn attention to a broader pattern of Islamophobia and racial profiling affecting Muslim communities across Europe — including discriminatory treatment of hijab-wearing women in schools and public life.
- Rasmussen Published a Poll Designed to Make Muslims Look Threatening. It’s Not the First Time This Playbook Has Been Used.Rasmussen Reports released a three-question survey that United Voices says was designed not to measure public opinion but to generate anti-Muslim talking points — using selectively framed questions to produce predetermined conclusions. The same strategy was used in 2015 when a debunked poll was cited to justify a Muslim travel ban. This time, a man was arrested for attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall the same week.
