Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza – AP
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholars’ association says – WaPost
“The resolution states that the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas against Israel that killed more than 1,200 people and prompted the Israeli military campaign in Gaza ‘constitutes international crimes.’ But it also concludes that Israel’s response violates all five conditions set out in the 1948 convention, including ‘killing members of the group’ and ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,’ according to Emily Sample, a member of the association’s executive board. Any one of the conditions would be sufficient for a finding of genocide…
“Sample said the timing of the association’s resolution — long after the war started, on the eve of the second anniversary of the conflict — may have owed to a fear of ‘personal and professional consequences.’ Members of the association had lost jobs in the United States and been denied visas to travel there for speaking out, she said.”