"That world leading experts declaring genocide in Gaza was too perfect of a headline for the media zeitgeist to miss. And of course, the declaration was a hatchet job."
"It’s nonsense of course—there is no credible evidence of massacres or intent to slaughter as required by the Genocide Convention, only minimal, for urban warfare, collateral damage. The genocide case against Israel brought before ICC fell apart. Yet unfortunately until Israel wins the war on the ground and takes itself out of the headlines, blood libels will be flooding the media.
"The latest one is the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) vote to declare that Israel is guilty of the willful annihilation of the Gaza population. The NGO’s statement was immediately transformed into headlines on Al Jazeera and ideologically aligned western outlets, including BBC, BBC UK, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, ABC Australia, PBS, Newsweek, Time and the Washington Post among others." [I might suggest CNN and MSNBC/NOW] . . .
(During my school years in the early 1950s, Zeitgeist pictured the world as wiped out by atomic warfare and many stories involved the hero living in the wreckage of destroyed civilization. TD)
. . . "Hamas’ October 7 attack constitutes genocide under international law. This conclusion rests on three interconnected pillars. First, the physical acts committed—the systematic killing of over 1,200 Israelis, accompanied by torture, sexual violence, and mutilations—satisfy the actus reus requirement of the Genocide Convention. Second, Hamas’ specific intent to destroy Israeli Jews is evident through multiple channels: its foundational ideology of eliminationist antisemitism, its decades-long systematic policy of incitement, its detailed operational planning for mass killing, and explicit statements by its leadership before and during the attack.
"What distinguishes this case, however, is the third element: the immediate deployment of reverse genocide accusation against the victims." . . . (Emphases mine; TD)
