The genocide in Gaza is the culmination of the Zionist project of establishing a settler-colonial Jewish ethnic state in historic Palestine, but world leaders have done nothing to prevent or punish it. One reason is a widespread failure to understand the crucial importance of democracy and support it. Second, the Zionist propaganda network has concealed the truth and spread lies about the genocide, and complicit leaders and media have failed to uphold truthfulness. Third, the West and even leaders of former colonies and sections of the left have allowed international law that could be used to support Palestinians to be undermined. Most working people of the world want to end the genocide in Gaza, and should work for boycotts of, divestment from and sanctions against Israel until a democratic Palestinian state is established, from the river to the sea.