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The unconditional military, financial, diplomatic, economic and academic complicity of the colonial West, led by the U.S., is the main factor enabling Israel’s livestreamed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, but it is not the only one. Epistemic complicity, the obsessive amplification of Israel’s repetitive falsification of and illogical justifications for its atrocities against Palestinians – whether discursive, argumentative, or otherwise – is another. Yet another factor is the enormous influence of the special interest (lobby) groups that ensure the flow of arms and money to Israel no matter whether it serves US interests or not. But there’s another foundational factor: the entrenched shared ‘ethics’ stemming from the centuries-old history of European and Euro-American dehumanization, colonial subjugation, even extermination of non-European nations. On the other hand, millions in the West have expressed meaningful solidarity with Palestinian liberation, motivated by a planetary ethics that realizes that the most profound ethical obligation is to do no harm and to stop and repair harm done in their name. They are contributing to a counter-ethics needed to resist the monopolization of ethics and knowledge by oppressive groups and to chart a more ethical path to freedom, justice and unmitigated emancipation.