PALESTINIANS GENOCIDE IN THE TIME OF MODERN ENLIGHTENMENT

Abstract

This article critically examines the paradox of still ongoing genocidal violence against the Palestinian people at a time when the world is supposed to operate on human rights, legal norms, and ethical governance. It can draw from historical events, legal definitions, and scholarly concepts to discuss how Israel’s policies based on settler colonialism, implemented through military occupation, systemic displacement, and cultural erasure, have caused the general clamour to refer to these actions as apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. This analysis puts these realities within the failure of international law and institutions, the complicity of liberal democracies, and how Western media dehumanizes Palestinian resistance. Furthermore, the paper criticizes the partial enforcement of the so-called rules-based order and emphasizes why digital resistance and grassroots advocacy could serve as a response to information war. Finally, the article ends by stating that justice, Palestinians’ restitution and freedom, although moral imperatives, are also the benchmarks of the global ethic of the post-Enlightenment era.