Have you ever been in a situation, where you have been a victim, bullied and tortured for years, begging for someone to believe you. And when it you finally stand up for yourself, you are being blamed for insinuating violence and aggression. Is that fair?

We have been watching the continuous atrocities taking place in Gaza for many many years, but it hasn’t been until October 2023 that the mainstream media have shed light on the situation. We have seen politicians only condemning Hamas, without any – or minimal recognition – about the historic degrading treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli Government, including war crimes and countless human rights violations. Anyone who takes this approach discredit themselves as a critical thinker, and more importantly, are people who should not be allowed in privileged positions if they can’t stand up for justice in a fair and equitable manner.

The real question is, why is there favouritism towards the Israeli Government?

Could this be another version of white supremacy, where this affinity bias leads to white people believing they are more deserving than others, and therefore, their actions, words, and behaviours reflect this as well by supporting their own kind?

What is happening to the Palestinian people is genocide – a term that is being refused to being used.

Genocide – taken from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website – is defined as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. These acts are:

1. Killing members of the group
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
   
   

We must be a strong nation willing to stand up for justice. Scotland needs to establish itself, on it’s own merit, as a credible, trustworthy and strong leader, and we can do this by supporting nations of people who have been living in oppression.

We need to ensure that our elected members are able to gain unbiased and researched information to be respected as critical thinkers.

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