The consistent and deliberate undermining of international law and international institutions is one reason (apart from the hideous death toll) that we need to protest and call out what is being done, this along with common empathy is my reason for protesting
“Israel’s war in Gaza is chipping away at so much of what we – in the United States but also internationally – had agreed upon as acceptable, from the rules governing our freedom of speech to the very laws of armed conflict.
It seems no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the international order of the last 77 years is threatened by this change in the obligations governing our legal and political responsibilities to each other.
We are ignoring the collapse of the international system that has defined our lives for generations at our own collective peril
This collapse began with the liberal world’s lack of resolve to rein in Israel’s war in Gaza.
It escalated when no one lifted a finger to stop hospitals being bombed. It expanded when mass starvation became a weapon of war. And it is peaking at a time when total war is no longer viewed as a human abhorrence but is instead the deliberate policy of the state of Israel.
The implications of this collapse are profound for international, regional and even domestic politics.
Political dissent is repressed, political language is policed, and traditionally liberal societies are increasingly militarized against their own citizens.
Many of us disregard how much has shifted in the last 20 months. But we are ignoring the collapse of the international system that has defined our lives for generations at our own collective peril.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/06/destruction-of-palestine-is-breaking-the-world