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The Guardian - US
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Yuli Novak

I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide

people walk on rubble in gaza
‘The surreal has become routine. Cities reduced to ash. Entire neighborhoods flattened. Families displaced, then displaced again.’ Photograph: APAImages/Shutterstock

The question keeps gnawing at me: Could this really be it? Could we be living through a genocide?

Outside Israel, millions already know the answer. But many of us here can’t – or won’t – say it aloud. Perhaps because the truth threatens to unmake everything we believed about who we are, and who we wanted to be. To name it is to admit that the future will require reckoning – not just with our leaders, but with ourselves. But the cost of refusing to see is even higher.

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