Kuala Lampur, Sept. 4 -- The smoke over Gaza, the frozen trenches in Ukraine, the simmering tensions fracturing democracies - these are not isolated tragedies.

They are symptoms of a deep, and increasingly virulent disease: racism.

It now rivals climate change as a global threat, a chilling recognition of reality.

Climate change imperils our physical world; racism, unchecked, destroys the very fabric of human co-operation necessary to save it.

It is the ultimate self-sabotage, a poison in the well of collective survival. The assertion that racism fuels these conflicts is not mere rhetoric.

In Gaza, decades of occupation are underpinned by ideologies that systematically dehumanise Palestinians. This dehumanisation provides the psychol...