A growing number of the world’s leading genocide scholars believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, according to an investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC.

The paper interviewed seven renowned genocide researchers* from six countries - including Israel - all of whom described the Israeli campaign in Gaza as genocidal. Many said their peers in the field share this assessment.

“Contrary to public opinion, leading genocide researchers are surprisingly unanimous: the Netanyahu government, they say, is in that process - according to the majority, even in its final stages,” the investigation concluded. “That is why most researchers no longer speak only of ‘genocidal violence’, but of ‘genocide’.”

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Article 2 of the Genocide Convention has 5 definitions of genocide, you only have to meet ONE for it to be considered a genocide.

    Israel: Hold my beer!

    https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/genocide-conv-1948/article-2

    Article II

    In the present Convention, genocide means 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.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      Interesring thing to note: doing any and all of the above to people along politically ideological lines is not considered genocide. Millions of civilians have been exterminated because their politics were not national, ethnic, racial, or religious.