“…Modern genocide functions as a system encompassing a wide array of responsibilities, some of them invisible or fundamentally unexpected. These may include, for example, the involvement of a university research centre somewhere in developing technologies and software used in practices of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
They may also include the allocation of funds from sovereign wealth funds or social security institutions into military industries that support the Israeli occupation and the war crimes it commits.
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A detailed report issued in July 2025 by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, identified more than 60 companies, including major US and European firms, as allegedly embedded in what she described as an “economy of genocide”.
The list of potential accomplices extends further, to include paid commentators and influencers who attempt to sanitise atrocities and persuade audiences with simplistic arguments they themselves may not believe.
Silence and power
It must also be recalled that those who fail to take appropriate action in response to genocide are likewise complicit in enabling it when they choose to look away, remain silent about its atrocities, and avoid demonstrating serious reactions.
Their silence became a partner in paving the way for the horrors inflicted by Israeli leadership upon the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
In this context, the slogan “Silence kills” rings true. Those who fail to take even minimal action in the face of a genocide visible to all resemble individuals who ignore a fire consuming an inhabited house nearby, making no effort to respond or even to call emergency services, but instead continuing to indulge in their hobbies…”