Silence in the Face of a Holocaust-Genocide - 9.5.2025

Israel’s war on Gaza has reached an unfathomable scale of horror, yet U.S. leaders and institutions that claim moral authority remain complicit through silence or direct support. Israeli forces now boast of controlling 40% of Gaza City after expanding their assault on crowded residential areas, striking camps for the displaced. At least 44 Palestinians were killed in a single day, including a pregnant woman, her unborn child, and seven other children. Every day for nearly two years, the equivalent of an entire classroom of children has been annihilated.

The story of Omar Harb, a 60-year-old Palestinian academic who starved to death after losing 26 family members to Israeli attacks, encapsulates this nightmare. By the time he died, weighing less than 88 pounds, more than 370 Palestinians had already perished from hunger and malnutrition caused by Israel’s deliberate blockade.

And how does the U.S. respond? By sanctioning Palestinian human rights groups whose only “crime” is supporting an International Criminal Court probe into Israeli war crimes. This is nothing less than aiding and abetting genocide — funded by American taxpayers.

Where is the outrage from U.S. citizens, religious leaders, or even the Vatican? Their silence echoes past betrayals of humanity. Palestinians have been driven from their land since 1948, and today another Holocaust is unfolding under our watch. 

History will not forgive our complicity.