Palestine: Identity Denial, Structural Violence, and Global Silence

DID Press: The issue of Palestine, due to decades of occupation, the displacement of millions, and the violation of a nation’s rights, has become a deeply moral and painful matter. The claim that “Palestine does not exist” is not only false but also an attempt to erase the history and identity of a people.

The denial of Palestinians’ identity and right to life is a form of structural violence—a violence that may not kill directly but cuts off the roots of life, culture, and the future of a society. Global indifference to such injustice is a form of participation in it. Sustainable justice can only be achieved when historical truth is acknowledged, as no peace built on denial and distortion of reality can endure.

International organizations such as Amnesty International, genocide researchers, and UN commissions have confirmed that Israel’s actions against Palestinians constitute genocide. Francesca Albanese, an Italian UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, has urged countries to pressure Israel to end the killing of Palestinians and to impose sanctions, yet the response from the United States was to sanction her instead.