Genocide in Gaza -The ultimate litmus test of a fascistic world order

Russia and China follow the US' lead, refuse to apply sanctions on the Zionist state

The United Nations Security Council (with the exception of the United States) voted this month for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

But the UNSC has not proposed imposing sanctions on Israel, the only effective method by governments to stop the slaughter of millions of Palestinians trapped in a concentration camp.

That means it’s business as usual with the Zionist state. The United States and China are number 1 and 3 respectively top traders with Israel (Ireland is no 2) allowing mass starvation, bombing and ethnic cleansing to proceed unimpeded.

Conversely, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling for sanctions on Israel on 18 September 2024. Trade unions refuse to unload arms shipments to Israel, and Yemen continues its Red Sea blockade.

Genocidal wars

In October 2023, the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, warned of the ‘unprecedented rise of fascism, and therefore, to the death of democracy and freedom … Gaza is just the first experiment in considering us all disposable.’

But the genocide of Gaza is not a unique phenomenon, a ‘first experiment.’ In this article I review how a pattern of genocidal wars mark the foreign policies of liberal democracies, closely resembling those of a fascist state.

Fascism is not an anomalous movement that only happened in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. Variants of fascism have developed over time and place since World War 2.

In this regard, the adjective fascistic is useful to identify how and where fascism shows up today. Fascistic refers to behaviour that resembles or relates to fascism.

The US and allies called liberal democracies are in pole position in the world order. Fascistic behaviours demonstrated by these countries include:

• Militarism, expansionism, genocidal wars. The foreign policy of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and other allies is genocidal. Post 9/11 US-led wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, accounted for 4.5 million Muslim deaths, according to a 2023 Brown University study. Methods include ground wars, bombing campaigns, regime change, the outsourcing of torture, support of fundamentalist militias (for example, EU, US, UK support of al Qaeda-linked 2024 takeover in Syria,) imposition of economically crippling sanctions and corporate theft of resources. These methods have led to the destruction of untold millions of lives.

Differently from Hitler’s Germany, US, UK and France don’t occupy nations in the traditional sense. Control in the neo-imperialist era is gained through military projection (the US has 750 bases in at least 80 countries,) invasions, interventions, shifting alliances and rule by proxy. In the past, US, the UK and/or France have propped up such dictators as Saddam Hussein, Manual Noriega, Rafael Trujillo, Francisco Franco, Francoise Duvalier, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Fulgencio Batista, Hosni Mubarak, and the Shah Pahlevi of Iran.

Today, the US, the UK and the EU support authoritarian rule in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and Haiti. French-supported dictators in Africa include Faure Gnassinbge (Togo,) Mahamat Idriss Deby (Chad,) Denis Sassou Nguesso (Congo- Brazzaville,) Ali Bongo (Gabon,) Paul Biya (Cameroon)

• Emphasis on national, racialised identity. Unlike in Nazi Germany, avowed beliefs in a natural social hierarchy are disallowed in Western democracies. However, discrimination shows up as institutionalised racism, hostility toward outsiders, immigrants and minority groups. The US has the world’s largest prison population, which is disproportionately non-white. The casual murder of millions of Muslims in foreign wars arise from dehumanising, racist ideologies.

• Propaganda and crackdowns against free expression. Western mainstream media is owned and controlled by corporations and act as mouthpieces of the state. Unlike in Nazi Germany, there are no widespread dawn police raids carting off hundreds of activists and journalists. However, arrests and imprisonment of dissidents in the West are on the rise. The persecution of Julian Assange, Richard Medhurst and others are designed to have a chilling effect.

• Anti communism, anti-socialism, anti-trade unionism. The first people the Nazis targeted for arrest and imprisonment were communists, trade unionists and social democrats. The Anglo-American establishment initially traded with Hitler as a better bet than Stalin, until he wasn’t. During the Cold War, the US and its allies uses proxies to defeat socialism and trade unionism in developing countries. From the 1980s, Western interests allied with fundamentalist militia groups to defeat countries with state-owned resources, for example Iraq under Saddam Hussein and Libya under Muammar Gaddafi.

Conclusion

Much of the humanitarian impacts of US-led foreign policy have been hidden from publics in the West due to state and corporate media control.

But the genocide in Gaza is livestreamed and can’t be un-seen. It reveals the full extent of the evil being wrought by Israel, with military support from the US and UK.

The world’s leaders China, Russia, France, the UK, the US - the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - have not stopped trading with Israel which makes them complicit in fascistic crimes.

Trade unions, citizen activists and a few governments are acting in solidarity to blockade arms shipments and goods to Israel. They are at the vanguard of the fight against the fascistic world order.

June 1, 2025. Dockworkers at the port of Marseille-Fos in southern France are refusing to load a 14-tonne shipment of weapons intended for Israel. The secretary-general of France's trade union federation told reporters, ‘It is unacceptable that [union dock workers] should be the ones forced to uphold the fundamental principles of international law and French values. The government must immediately block all arms deliveries to the State of Israel.’Picture source.

Zakariya al-Majdoub, an 11-month-old baby born in Khan Yunis during Israeli attacks on Gaza, faces life-threatening malnutrition in Gaza on June 3, 2025. Picture source.

References

‘Which countries trade the most with Israel and what do they buy and sell?’

Blum, William, (2014) Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II

Blumenthal, Max (2019) The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump

Rockhill, Gabriel, ‘Liberalism and Fascism: The State of American Politics,’ Lecture, April 18, 2025 at Kansas State University, Youtube.