I was going to write about the 110,000 dead, including 30,000 children. I was going to write about the 140,000 wounded. I was going to write about the highest civilian death toll of any conflict since World War Two. I was going to write about the 1,500 killed when gathering at official food distribution points. I was going to write about the 750,000 people currently starving to death because famine is being utilised as a weapon of war, a policy explicitly prohibited by international law.

I was going to write about the bombed hospitals, dead doctors and nurses and the destroyed health care system. I was going to write about the 200 journalists and the 400 aid workers killed, the highest numbers in any conflict since records were first kept. I was going to write about the destruction of countless thousands of homes, along with schools, workplaces, infrastructure and civic amenities, and the systemic eradication of entire towns and villages, whether by bombing or by deliberate demolition – all actions defined as war crimes under the Geneva Convention.

I was going to write about the brazen policy of genocide that is being enacted in front of the world in order to wipe out a people so that their lands can be seized and taken over by the violent conquerors. I was going to write about how such genocide counts as the supreme crime against humanity according to universal, globally agreed, binding law going back over 70 years – laws that don’t just apply to the direct perpetrators but also to those complicit in the genocide by supplying arms and weaponry or by denying that genocide is happening or by simply ignoring the obligation to enforce this non-negotiable international law and failing to stop the perpetrators.

I was going to write about how these crimes can never go unpunished, about how there is no statute of limitations and about how those responsible, actively, passively or by default, must be hunted down, arrested, tried and, if found guilty, summarily executed.

I was going to write about the fact that the International Criminal Court has already issued arrest warrants for a couple of the most high profile mass murderers and how the time will eventually come when those who are supplying lethal arms (including parts and components) to them must also be arrested, however long it takes. I was going to write about how these apologists seem to think they can do what they want with impunity – the same delusion held by the Nazi leadership and their collaborators. I was going to write about how some of the most extreme examples of collaboration with this ongoing genocide have actually made opposition to or protest against it illegal and punishable by 14 years imprisonment.

I was going to name these evil fascist nations and their corrupt, ignorant, cowardly collaborators…I was going to do all these things, but Keir Starmer has outlawed truth, free speech, protest, opposition, compassion, decency, benevolence and humanitarianism…so I’d better not…