GENOCIDE  WATCH

By Senan Monks O'Connell Street during the 2023 Dublin riots. Image by Brian Lawless/PA via The Irish Examiner Historical atrocities like the Cromwellian Conquest, the Great Hunger and Bloody Sunday shape Irish national memory, as does past discrimination of Irish immigrants in the United Kingdom and United States. Today, minorities within Ireland face similar prejudice. Mincéirí (Irish Travelers) are a native, traditionally nomadic ethnic group of around 33,000 people with a

by Johana Bhuiyan October 1, 2026 Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo. Illustration: Guardian Design/Getty Images When prompted, AI chatbots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of one of the world’s most common and visible expressions of faith. The Guardian asked ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini and Claude to take the veil off an AI-generated image of a woman wearing a hijab. Both Ope

By Ajas Khan September 28, 2026 Rohingya in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks that forced them to flee their home in Rakhine State, Myanmar, 25 August. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Nine years ago, I was forced to flee my home in Maungdaw township, Rakhine state, Myanmar. I was 13 years old. I remember how quickly an average day turned into a day when life felt extinguished, leaving behind the place where I grew up with my family. Even now,

By Tamara Khandaker September 28, 2026 Researchers link the rise to immigration politics, economic anxiety and the growing visibility of South Asians in US. The monthly volume of hate towards South Asians in the US on the social media platform X rose 240 percent between January 2024 and June 2026, according to a new report [File: Jenny Kane/AP Photo] Hate speech against Indians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in the United States has risen sharply online, according to a report t

ABOLISH ICE. Our extensive investigation into ICE operations in cities across the country concludes that reform isn’t an option — the entire agency HAS TO GO. And we must demand it right now. Here are the most important highlights of our report: Human rights violations were repeatedly committed across enforcement operations in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C, including ICE and federal agents unlawfully using lethal force. The consistency of the

By Joaquín Gil August 29, 2026 The far-right political party España 2000 uses an NGO as cover to monitor neighbourhoods that have large immigrant populations They call themselves the “Angels of the Night.” On paper, they present themselves as a grassroots neighborhood group alarmed by rising crime in Valencia. Dressed in black T-shirts and caps bearing a silver logo of two children holding hands beneath angel wings, the self-styled vigilantes are preparing to patrol the stree

By: Alexander Smith Supporters of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) wave flags as they take part in an AfD campaign rally in Hohenschoenhausen, Berlin, Germany, February 22, 2025. Image: Reuters/Christian Mang. Germany’s history of genocide began during its colonial rule of German South West Africa (GSWA), which Germany acquired at the Berlin Conference. Settlers forcibly took indigenous lands, massacred those that resisted German rule, established labor camps, and rape

Part Two: How Securitization Drives Radicalization By Vladimir Kovtun Genocide Watch The mother of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old of Algerian descent who died in 2023 after being shot by a policeman, on top of a van during a demonstration in Nanterre (France). Photo by Bertrand Guay (AFP) Introduction France has a well-resourced approach to combat radicalism through educating students to value France's republican values, French secularism, and laïcité (in layman’s terms, freed

Part One: Context on France’s Muslim Community By Vladimir Kovtun Genocide Watch French Muslim woman debates Rally National Leader Marine Le Pen on the issue of the hijab. Image - Associated Press Introduction The Muslim community in France consists mainly of immigrants from the Maghreb (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and other parts of northwestern Africa) and their descendants. Over the past few decades, the community's significant growth has coincided with an uptick in incid

In part nine of our Ten Stages of Genocide in India Series, we explain how the ninth stage/process of genocide, Extermination, is occurring in India. A policeman looks on as a row of shops burns in Ahmedabad during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Credit: AFP India has a history of genocides, including between 200,000 and two million killings during Partition in 1947. At this stage, the killing legally defined as genocide occurs. Perpetrators do not view their victims as fully human.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, center, the national security minister, and other Israeli hard-liners campaigned on a promise to execute Palestinian militants.Credit...Erik Marmor/Getty Images Genocide Emergency Alert: Israel’s Death Penalty Law Violates International Law and Israel’s Basic Law Israel has executed only two convicted criminals since 1948. The first was Meir Tobianski, executed in 1948 for treason, who was posthumously exonerated. The second was Adolf Eichmann, executed in

Palestinian students walk to school using an alternative route that is nearly twice as long because a fence separates their village from the nearby Israeli settlement of Carmel, near the West Bank village of Umm al-Khair, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Associated Press April 15, 2026 By SAM METZ and JALAL BWAITEL RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hajar and Rashid Hathaleen have always walked to school from their neighborhood on the outskirts of Umm al-Khair. But

Itamar Ben-Gvir, center, the national security minister, and other Israeli hard-liners had campaigned on a promise to execute Palestinian militants.Credit ...Erik Marmor/Getty Images Genocide Emergency Alert: Israel’s Death Penalty Law Violates International Law and Israel’s Basic Law Israel has executed only two convicted criminals since 1948. The first was Meir Tobianski, executed in 1948 for treason, who was posthumously exonerated. The second was Adolf Eichmann, execute

12 April 2026 Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center, addresses after a parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian voters on Sunday ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussion

In part eight of our Ten Stages of Genocide in India Series , we explain how the eighth process/stage of genocide, Persecution, is occurring in India. Pawan Pandit, a cow vigilante, stops a truck at a road block near Chandigarh, India [File: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters] Persecution is the stage when the state or state-endorsed perpetrators commit destructive acts against a targeted victim group. The group’s human rights are violated through extrajudicial killings, the expropria

In part seven of our Ten Stages of Genocide in India Series , we explain how the seventh process/stage of genocide, Preparation, is occurring in India. RSS exercising with their trademark sticks. Photograph: Kamal Kishore/Reuters Preparation is the stage when group leaders plan massacres and genocide. The Nazi Holocaust followed meticulous planning. Ambiguous language is usually used to mask the genocidal nature of these plans. Genocidal plans are often referred to by euphemi