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The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has passed a resolution stating that Israel’s “policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide.”
Citing “Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” within its findings, the resolution argues that Israel's actions in response to the terrorist attack committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, have not only been directed against Hamas “but have also targeted the entire Gazan population.”
“The government of Israel has engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against the civilians and civilian infrastructure,” the association said in the resolution passed on Aug. 31.
A spokesperson for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the resolution, calling it an “embarrassment to the legal profession and to any academic standard.”
“It is entirely based on Hamas’ campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others,” claimed Oren Marmorstein.
Explaining its conclusion, the IAGS argued that Israel has “forcibly displaced nearly all of the 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip multiple times” and cited estimations that more than 90% of the housing infrastructure in the territory has been destroyed.
Onur Uraz, chair of the IAGS Resolutions Committee, confirmed to TIME on Monday that 86% of the association’s members voted in favor of the resolution. “The process of this resolution has been one of the smoothest ones in light of numerous U.N. and NGO reports that support the conclusion," he said.
“This is a definitive statement from experts in the field of genocide studies that what is going on on the ground in Gaza is genocide,” president of IAGS Melanie O'Brien is quoted as telling Reuters.
Article II of the 1948 U.N. Convention defines genocide “as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part.” It does not include political groups or what is known as “cultural genocide.”
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But then, what do the world's best scholars on the subject know? Plus, they are certainly all Jew haters. The whole world hates the Jews except for the U.S., obviously. Right?
I don't know that these before and after pictures that I chose are of the same street. But it doesn't matter. All of Gaza looks pretty much the same now...
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