The tide of world opinion has most definitely turned towards Palestine. In another encouraging sign of the global momentum, more than two hundred political leaders, academics, human rights advocates, journalists, religious scholars, and cultural icons have written to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres calling for “the dismantling of apartheid” and “an end to impunity” for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. I am proud to be included in that number (no. 111).

The excerpt below is from a report by the Middle East Monitor. To see the original letter, click here. Dave.

Over 200 global figures urge UN to dismantle Israeli apartheid and end impunity

The letter issued yesterday warns that “silence has become complicity and hesitation a betrayal of the very Charter upon which the United Nations was founded.” It accuses Israel of committing “one of the most extensive massacres in modern history” in Gaza during June and July 2025, in which more than 60,000 Palestinians – including over 17,000 children—were killed, and over two million displaced.

The letter presents what it calls “seven myths” that have sustained Israel’s oppression since before its creation. It describes the 1948 Nakba as a “deliberate erasure” of the indigenous Palestinian people, with over 500 villages destroyed and more than 700,000 Palestinians made stateless, and rejects the narrative of Israel’s “birth” as a lawful or just event.

Tracing an unbroken chain of violence, the signatories cite the massacre at Deir Yassin in 1948, the atrocities at Sabra and Shatila in 1982, the brutal assault on Jenin in 2002, repeated bombardments of Gaza from 2008 to 2021, and the devastation unleashed since 7 October 2023. These, they argue, expose a “deliberate project of colonial expansion, racial domination, and cultural erasure, underpinned by… legal impunity.”

Read this article in full on the Middle East Monitor website. To see the original letter, click here.