{"id":304604,"date":"2025-10-13T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=304604"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:12:55","slug":"gaza-and-the-excuse-of-october-7-the-test-of-our-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/10\/gaza-and-the-excuse-of-october-7-the-test-of-our-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza and the Excuse of October 7: The Test of Our Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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7 Oct 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0October 7 is not just another date. It marks the beginning of a genocide that had long been unfolding in silence \u2014 slowly, systematically, and with bureaucratic precision. For years, the world watched the strangulation of Gaza behind euphemisms: \u201csecurity,\u201d \u201ccounterterrorism,\u201d \u201cright to self-defence.\u201d But on October 7, 2023, the mask fell. The genocide revealed its full, grotesque face \u2014 naked hatred toward everything Palestinian.<\/p>\n

Let us be clear: Israel\u2019s assault did not begin as an act of self-defence, nor can it be excused as revenge. It is the embodiment of evil \u2014 modern, technologized, and televised in real time. It is a war not about Hamas, it is against life itself \u2014 against a people\u2019s mere existence, their memory, their future.<\/p>\n

A Turkish colleague recently remarked that Gaza is the true test of the multipolar world. I would go further: Gaza is the test of our humanity. Regardless of the type of the world order \u2026<\/p>\n

Because what is at stake is not only the fate of two million besieged people, but the moral architecture of the entire planet. The so-called \u201crules-based international order\u201d has been exposed for what it really is: a set of rules that apply only to the weak. Every Western government that continues to arm, fund, or diplomatically shield Israel is complicit \u2014 not in abstract \u201cpolicy errors,\u201d but in crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

If Gaza falls, we all fall \u2014 into a moral abyss from which no ideology, religion, or great power will rescue us. No amount of rhetoric about democracy or human rights can wash away the stench of this complicity. After two years of relentless bombing, starvation, and displacement, no state has the moral right to \u201cconsider\u201d sanctions on Israel, to weigh them against its national interests. There is no neutrality left. There is only conscience \u2014 or collaboration.<\/p>\n

Palestine is not an abstract cause. It is the mirror in which the world sees its true face. It is flesh and blood, children and rubble, memory and resistance. To stand with Palestine today is to defend the last fragments of our own humanity.<\/p>\n

Sanctions on Israel are not a matter of politics \u2014 they are a matter of survival for the moral world.<\/p>\n

Full boycott. Complete isolation. Anything less is shame. Anything less is complicity.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em> Biljana Vankovska – Professor of political science and international relations at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Macedonia, TFF board member, No Cold War collective member, peace activist, leftist, columnist, 2024 presidential candidate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Go to Original \u2013 biljanavankovska.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7 Oct 2025\u00a0–\u00a0October 7 marks the beginning of a genocide that had long been unfolding in silence \u2014 slowly, systematically, and with bureaucratic precision behind euphemisms: \u201csecurity,\u201d \u201ccounterterrorism,\u201d \u201cright to self-defence.\u201d But on October 7, 2023, the mask fell. The genocide revealed its full, grotesque face \u2014 naked hatred toward everything Palestinian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":301544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1199,87,865,3264,88,2552,427,2497,3043,880,70],"class_list":["post-304604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-jews","tag-palestine","tag-palestinians","tag-rbio-rules-based-international-order","tag-state-terrorism","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304607,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304604\/revisions\/304607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}