Gaza.. A Declared Genocide (A Turning Point in World History)

Ashqar returned to the historical trajectory that led to the ongoing catastrophe, relying on deep documentary research that enabled him to reach dramatic conclusions affecting not only the Palestinians but also the peoples of the Arab region.

The “declared genocide” to which the Palestinian people in Gaza are still being subjected, in the view of the Franco-Lebanese writer and political analyst Gilbert Achcar, represents a turning point in world history. The ongoing genocide — or the new Nakba — is more horrifying than the Nakba of 1948, according to the emeritus professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and regular contributor to the renowned French newspaper Le Monde diplomatique.

In his important book Gaza: A Declared Genocide… A Turning Point in World History (241 pages, medium format – La Découverte/Les Liens qui Libèrent in Paris), he confirms what a few French writers have argued as they continue to refute the theses of McCarthyite journalists and writers (such as Alain Gresh, Edwy Plenel, Jean-Pierre Filiu, Pascal Boniface, and Dominique Vidal, against William Goldnadel, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Éric Zemmour, Raphaël Enthoven, and Alain Finkielkraut). Professor Achcar has demonstrated, through evidence, analyses, and historical facts, what the Jewish historian Ilan Pappé had revealed before many French writers in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, published in Paris in 2005 by Fayard before it was quietly withdrawn from the market and later reappeared in a modest format from the small publisher La Fabrique.

Far from the “October 7” argument

Achcar states in the introduction of his book — which deserves to be translated into Arabic — his approach, which leaves no room for doubt. The author begins by refuting Israel’s claim that its military response, which its leaders do not consider genocidal, was a reaction to the massacres of October 7, 2023. According to Achcar, the genocide in Gaza has no direct relation to the unprecedented form of the October 7 attacks, the first of their kind in the history of the Palestinian–Israeli confrontation.