Israel's Gaza actions meet genocide criteria, scholars say | The Jerusalem Post
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The move comes amid proceedings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where South Africa is pursuing a case against Israel under the Genocide Convention.

A global association of genocide scholars has adopted a resolution stating that Israel’s military actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal definition of genocide, the group’s president confirmed on Monday.

Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution, which declares “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).”

Since its founding in 1994, the genocide scholars’ association has passed nine resolutions recognizing historic or ongoing episodes as genocides.

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    However, when speaking in Hebrew in the Israeli press, Israeli politicians, generals, religious leaders, and political commentators regularly make genocidal statements,expressing their desire to “destroy Amalek,” starve Palestinians into submission, flatten Gaza, and ethnically cleanse it of its roughly 2 million inhabitants.”

    A bit tangential, but it super funny when I mention this fact to staunch Israel supporters in my social periphery, they ask me how I know Hebrew. I say I don’t, I use a combo of Google/Firefox translate and GPT to read these articles in English, and this is suddenly when they start having issues with AI being misused and inaccurate. Not when it’s being used to indiscriminately bomb a place. I wish I were making this up.