https://jacobin.com/2025/08/israel-gaza-worst-crimes-ever
Israel’s Gaza War Is One of History’s Worst Crimes Ever
Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this.
You’re absolutely right, crimes of this scale almost defy comprehension, and trying to weigh them feels both necessary and impossible. It’s horrific to realize this is all happening in real time, in front of us yet, as unthinkable as Gaza is, it’s tragically not isolated. Places like Sudan and Mali etc are also facing famine and conflict, often unfold off the front page. It’s overwhelming, but I believe that bearing witness, and refusing to look away even when our understanding falls short, is still essential.
Oh absolutely, this is unfortunately not the only genocide currently being attempted, nor are genocides the only seemingly immeasurable hurt that we’re currently committing against humanity.
I’m an immigrant in Germany, and even after visiting concentration camps and seeing multiple Stolpersteine (memorial plaques) per block in most cities, the massiveness of the holocaust still hits me in waves.
You’re right that we need to weigh these types of crimes, and their scale is not an excuse to bury our heads in the sand.
What can we do now? Raise our voices to be heard? Do we take it in turn, Israel protest on Mondays, Sudan on Tuesdays?