Is Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza? Leading international experts say yes, with the majority of their peers in academia concurring. The debate is shifting as the death toll rises and humanitarian aid is blocked. Are you ready to confront the harsh reality of what's happening in Gaza? #GenocideInGaza

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30176680

Julia Conley
May 15, 2025

"Melanie O’Brien, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, told NRC that #Israel’s deliberate blockade on “food, water, shelter, and sanitation” convinced her the #Netanyahu government was carrying out a #genocide, while Segal pointed to “openly genocidal statements” by #Israeli leaders.

“But for all it is about the sum of what would apply separately as ‘ordinary’ war crimes,” NRC reported. “The picture as a whole makes it a genocide. That is how the term is meant, says [British professor Martin] Shaw: ‘holistic.’”"

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    In their defence, there is no defined point

    Where something is considered genocide? That’s simply not true.

    any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

    • (a) Killing members of the group;
    • (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
    • © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
    • (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
    • (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

    — Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2

    • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      The nebulous term is “intent”. That’s not something that’s always clear. Especially early on in the war the argument was that the intent was to destroy Hamas and rescue the hostages. That wouldn’t be a genocide. But given what several cabinet ministers have now been publicly saying, we can determine that the intent is present.