Martin Shaw

This article discusses the genocide in Gaza since 2023, now widely recognized by scholars, as a distinctive case in which Israel has used military force and other means to cripple Palestinian society in the territory, and has largely succeeded in this goal. The article discusses how Israel has displaced the population from its homes but has been blocked from converting internal displacement into external expulsion. It discusses how Israel’s intensified bombing and starvation policies after the return of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency in 2025 led to a growing alienation of international public opinion and Trump’s pivot to his “peace plan.” Analyzing how Trump’s centrality exposes the international Western character of the genocide, the article discusses the emerging new, supposedly internationalized U.S.-Israeli occupation of Gaza and how the Gaza genocide has catalyzed a new age of genocide, with a genocidal mentality also evident in the new wars launched by the U.S. and Israel, and far-right mass deportation schemes.