World’s Leading Genocide Scholars Association Says Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza
The International Association of Genocide Scholars passed a resolution determining Israel was committing genocide with the support of 86% of its members.
This article originally appeared on Antiwar.com and was republished with permission.
Guest post by Dave DeCamp
The world’s largest association of genocide scholars has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, passing a resolution making the determination with the approval of 86% of its members.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars, which has about 500 members, said in the resolution that Israel’s “policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).”
The resolution recognized that since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, the Israeli government has committed “systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against the civilians and civilian infrastructure.”
It said that Israel’s actions against Palestinians have included “torture, arbitrary detention, and sexual and reproductive violence; deliberate attacks on medical professionals, humanitarian aid workers, and journalists; and the deliberate deprivation of food, water, medicine, and electricity essential to the survival of the population.”
The resolution recognized Israeli officials making “statements of ‘intent to destroy’, characterizing Palestinians in Gaza as a whole as enemies and ‘human animals’ and stating the intention of inflicting ‘maximum damage’ on Gaza, ‘flattening Gaza,’ and turning Gaza into ‘hell.'”
The conclusion of the IAGS aligns with many leading human rights organizations, including Israeli groups, and determinations that genocide and Holocaust scholars have reached individually. “People who are experts in the study of genocide can see this situation for what it is,” Melanie O’Brien, the president of the IAGS and a professor of international law at the University of Western Australia, told The Associated Press.
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Antiwar.com asked the State Department for a comment on the IAGS resolution and has yet to receive a reply. The US government has repeatedly denied that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza since US officials would be implicated due to Israel’s reliance on US military aid to conduct military operations.
The IAGS resolution also noted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s support for President Trump’s previous calls for the removal of Palestinians from Gaza. The resolution said it recognized that “Netanyahu has endorsed the current US President’s plan to forcibly expel all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, with no right of return, in what Navi Pillay, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has said amounts to ethnic cleansing.”
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Awesome.
I totally look forward to MORE TALK and NOTHING EVERY BEING DONE ABOUT IT.
How hard is it to be humane and choose the option that results in less death and destruction?
It's difficult to believe that the brutal October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel was truly unexpected (albeit it may have been deadlier than the hypothetical Israeli insiders had anticipated). Regardless of the increasingly self-compromised mostly-corporatized Western mainstream news-media (unlike genuinely independent news outlets) basically deeming it non-newsworthy, it's no real secret that Israeli officials had been warned in advance by at least one credible source.
Those Israeli lives lost, however tragic, may be considered by the increasingly immorally opportunistic prime minister, and ilk, as a good investment or return — i.e. the future mass cleansing of Palestinians from their land, followed by its annexation along with its coveted natural resources.
The 10/7 assault conveniently enabled the Netanyahu government/IDF to justify or excuse extreme emergency war measures, then force through his/their ‘democratic reforms’ and do who-knows-what-more to Palestine — which so far has included atrocities like ethnically cleansing, systematic food-starving and mass slaughtering its long-time Palestinian non-combatants, especially children.
It's also convenient for other Israeli power interests — particularly with western world governments and mainstream news-media basically falling into line and towing it. And who's going to be able to stop the Israel Defense Forces with their state-of-the-art American-taxpayer-supplied weaponry?
Arab nations and Palestinians cannot trust Israel, especially under Netanyahu, which is not even his real name (it's Mileikowsky), who has repeatedly proven himself to be a snake in the grass. Did he not also, in 2002, implore the United States Congress to invade Iraq because, he alleged, Baghdad was developing weapons of mass destruction? This, of course, was utter BS; however, the brutal damage had largely already been done, mostly to innocent Iraqi men, women and children.