Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? | Ahmed Ibsais

Western academics now speak of genocide' with newfound authority. Why weren't our voices enough?

Today I watched those children again, the ones who stood before the cameras at al-Shifa hospital on 7 November 2023. They spoke in English, not their mother tongue, but the language of those who they thought might save them.

We want to live, we want peace, we want to judge the killers of children," one boy said. We want medicine, food and education. We want to live as the other children live."

How holy their concern now sounds, rising over a land emptied of the living.

As if starving a child pre-disposed to death makes the violence more justified?

Ahmad Ibsais is a first generation Palestinian American, law student and poet who writes the newsletter State of Siege