For 77 years, Palestinians have been massacred, ethnically cleansed, and caged under a colonial regime backed by the West. This is not a deviation from the world order — it is its brutal logic. Empire protects its outposts. And Israel is one of them.

What’s happening in Gaza is not a crisis — it’s a genocide. The same governments that say “never again” are helping it happen, all while dismissing international law when it suits. The interim measures ordered by the ICJ in the South African case against Israel have been ignored. And in July 2024, the world’s top court ruled: Israel’s occupation is illegal, and all states must stop supporting it. The UN followed with a demand: Israel must leave the occupied Palestinian territories within a year.

Most Western governments ignored it. Some kept sending weapons. But this time, there’s resistance — not just from below, but from states. Eight nations from the Global South have formed The Hague Group. They’re using every legal and diplomatic tool available to stop the genocide and hold those responsible accountable.

These governments have pledged to enforce arrest warrants, halt arms transfers, shut down supply routes, and take coordinated action against Israel, while removing obstacles to the realisation of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including the right to their independent State of Palestine.

We thus call on people of conscience — and our elected representatives — to:

• Fully support The Hague Group and its mission

• Prevent the delivery of weapons and related technology to Israel, including through ports and airspace

• Boycott, divest, and sanction as called for by the BDS Movement

• Pressure for international compliance with UNGA Resolution A/RES/ES-10/24

• Cooperate on legal action against complicit states, companies, and officials

And to those seeking to remove their own complicity — however indirect — through the companies they work for: organise with your colleagues. Use tools like the Watermelon Index to expose and dismantle corporate ties to the apartheid regime.