🟥 Genocide doesn’t end with hashtags. It ends when someone stops it. Part 1 of 2 in defense of armed resistance to oppression.

Under local, state, national, and international law, people and nations — have a legal and moral right to stop a genocide by force. It’s not extremism. It’s justice.

I think we all know we must have this conversation, but for so many reasons, we are afraid. Our fear, though, is necessary for this genocide to continue. The genocidal powers are COUNTING ON US BEING TOO AFRAID TO ACT.

I’ve hesitated to write this post — not because I’m unsure, but because the truth is so heavy, and the consequences of saying it aloud are real.

But I need to say it anyway.

Yes, people — and even nations — have a legal right to stop a genocide. Even by force.

Not only that, we have a moral responsibility to stop it. International law demands it. Human dignity requires it. And history proves that no genocide has ever ended without intervention.

And I say this not only as a witness — but as a historian.

Because when you study genocide, over and over again, you learn a brutal truth:

Genocides end in one of two ways:

1. The genocidal regime kills everyone it set out to kill.

2. The genocidal regime is stopped — by force.

There is no third option. There is no peaceful ending. There are no miracles without action.

And what’s happening in Gaza is not an exception. It is the rule — playing out in front of us in real time.

Israel and America do not care about their reputations. They truly don’t. They are fully and completely willing to see this genocide through all the way until the bitter end.

Just TODAY Netanyahu announced he plans to completely overtake Gaza.

So let me say what must be said.

UNLESS THIS MAN AND HIS NATION ARE PHYSICALLY STOPPED, BY FORCE, WITH WEAPONS, THEY WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THEY TAKE ALL OF GAZA AND THE WEST BANK.

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History is clear: genocide only ends when someone stops it.

Don’t take my word for it. Look at the historical record:

• Rwanda (1994): The genocide ended when the Rwandan Patriotic Front overthrew the genocidal regime — not because the UN intervened.

• Nazi Germany: The Holocaust ended because the Nazis were militarily defeated. Diplomacy did not stop it.

• Bosnia (Srebrenica, 1995): Genocide stopped only after NATO intervened militarily — far too late.

• Cambodia (1970s): Pol Pot's genocide ended when Vietnam invaded and overthrew the Khmer Rouge.

• Darfur: Still ongoing. Why? Because no one stopped it.

Hashtags and speeches didn’t stop these genocides.
UN resolutions didn’t stop them.
They stopped when someone said: “Enough,” and took decisive action.

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International law supports the right — and obligation — to stop genocide

Let’s be absolutely clear: stopping a genocide is not just a moral act — it’s a legal responsibility under international law. Let me break it down:

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📜 UN Genocide Convention (1948), Article I

“The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide... is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.”

➡️ “Prevent and punish.” Not just condemn. Not just tweet. Not just observe.

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📜 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998), Articles 25 & 27

Individuals can be held personally responsible for failing to prevent genocide or for aiding and abetting it.

➡️ Not acting can itself be a crime. Do you understand this? It is a crime to see a genocide and not stop it.

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📜 UN World Summit Outcome Document (2005) — Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

“The international community… should be prepared to take collective action… in a timely and decisive manner… should peaceful means be inadequate.”

➡️ R2P is recognized international doctrine that authorizes military force to stop mass atrocities — including genocide — when a state refuses to stop it.

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📜 UN Charter, Article 51

“Nothing… shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense...”

➡️ If a people — or their allies — rise to stop an ongoing genocide against them, this is not terrorism. It is self-defense, legally protected.

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This is what genocide looks like under the law.

The United Nations defines genocide as:

“Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group…”

This includes:

• Killing members of the group

• Causing serious bodily or mental harm

• Deliberately inflicting life conditions calculated to destroy

• Preventing births

• Forcibly transferring children

Israel’s actions in Gaza meet every single one of these definitions:

• Tens of thousands killed, the majority women and children

• Mass starvation, blocking aid by air, land, and sea

• Destruction of homes, schools, hospitals, and mosques

• Open, repeated statements by Israeli leaders calling for Gaza’s total destruction, the forced removal of all Palestinians, the renaming of the land — even invoking Hitler’s logic: “We cannot live in this land as long as one Muslim remains in Gaza.”

This is not exaggeration.
This is not hyperbole.
This is textbook genocide.

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The right to survive is human. The right to resist is legal.

Let’s step back from law for a moment — and talk about something deeper:

The biological human urge to live.

Every human being is born with an instinct to survive.
To protect themselves.
To shield their children.
To fight for the people and communities they love.

This is not terrorism.
This is not extremism.
This is biology.
It is what any people — anywhere — would do.

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You kill 60,000 people — and expect no resistance?

Let’s speak plainly.

At least 60,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered in this genocide.
Independent experts say the true number may exceed 250,000, when accounting for the buried, the starved, and the forgotten.

And yet the world expects the very people being exterminated to humbly disarm? To submit? To accept this?

What people on Earth would do that?

If any other population — in any other place — were facing this kind of annihilation, they would resist. And you’d cheer them on.

Why is it only Palestinians who are told to embrace extermination without a fight?

Why are they — uniquely — denied the right to live, to fight, to survive?

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Resisting genocide is not terrorism. It’s humanity.

Let me say this plainly:

Resisting a genocidal regime is not terrorism. It is survival. It is humanity. It is law.

Palestinians have the legal right, the moral right, and the human right to defend themselves against extermination. And the nations of the world have the right to support and defend them during this genocide.

That’s not radical.
That’s not violent.
That’s what history and law demand.

The right to resist genocide is not just protected by legal doctrine — it is baked into the very soul of what it means to be alive.

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We tell the truth — because someone must.

This is not a popular position.

But it’s the right one.

I’ve studied genocide. I’ve seen how it ends.
And what I’m seeing in Gaza follows the textbook — page by page.

The only question left is who will stop it — and when.

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Next: Part 2 — The Islamic Case for Self-Defense

In the next post, I will walk through the case from an Islamic framework.
Not just why Muslims can defend themselves — but why we must.

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Love and resolve,
Your friend and brother,
Shaun King

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