Global Sociologists for Palestine: Campaigning in Solidarity with Palestine within the International Sociological Association

At the time of this writing in late September 2025, the official death toll from the two-year Israeli genocide on Gaza was at about 66,000, a large majority of these civilians. The deliberate killing of all segments of the population, the destruction of homes and infrastructure (including hospitals, schools, and the sewage system), the blockage and deprivation of food and medicine, and the forced displacement of Gazans all constitute elements of genocide. The International Court of Justice is hearing a case charging Israel with genocide (Borger, 2025), and growing numbers of genocide experts, including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, have characterised Israel’s ongoing actions as genocide. In a separate case, the same Court found Israel’s government guilty of apartheid and illegal occupation in 2024 (Baldwin, 2024). International academic associations, including the International Sociological Association (ISA), have issued statements deploring the killing of both Palestinian and Israeli civilians in October 2023, but have done little
to actually hold the Israeli government and its institutions to account—until June 2025.