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Levivich, I don't expect anyone to search diligently for sources that contradict his opinion. While this is the ideal of science and scholarship, we are all human beings, and people who never succumb to confirmation bias are very rare indeed. But saying that you have "identified" only X scholars that oppose your view when you clearly have seen more than that, is a different matter. Here is an interesting observation in this regard:
On 18:45, 9 July 2024 you claimed on this discussion that "So far, we've identified three historians" that would argue against the idea that Zionism is some form of colonialism. Later on 21:03, 9 July 2024 after I presented additional 3, you said "We're now up to six scholars who dispute that Zionism is colonialism". However from your comments in the recent AE discussion about Nishidani’s aggressive behavior we can see that in the days immediately before you made that "3/6 scholars" comments, you have been closely monitoring the articles Settler colonialism and Zionism as settler colonialism, and yet somehow you "missed" the fact that these articles contain the opinions of several more scholars critical of the idea that Zionism is Colonialism (beyond those mentioned so far in the discussion here): Tom Segev, Ilan Troen, Yuval shany, Jeffrey C. Alexander and Moses Lissak. In fact, some of these names and their opinions appear in two diffs that you yourself brought into that AE discussion on 15:58, 8 July 2024! One titled "adding content for context, opposing views for npov" , the other titled "you have removed sourced material without explanation."
| Name | year | links | quotes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yoav Gelber | 2020 | 1 | Economic theories of colonialism and sociological theories of migration movements are also inadequate when applied to the Zionist experience |
| Benny Morris | 2020 | 2 | Colonialism is commonly defined as the policy and practice of an imperial power acquiring political control over another country, settling it with its sons, and exploiting it economically. By any objective standard, Zionism fails to fit this definition |
| Dore Gold | 2011 | 3 | The Myth of Israel as a Colonialist Entity: An Instrument of Political Warfare to Delegitimize the Jewish State |
| Tuvia Friling | 2016 | 4 | What Do Those Who Claim Zionism Is Colonialism Overlook? |
| Robert Eisen | 2011 | 5 | Moreover, Zionism was not colonialism. Palestine had no economic attraction for the Zionists because there was nothing in Palestine to exploit. |
| Dov Waxman | 2019 | 6 | Zionist settlers were not European colonialists |
| Ephraim Karsh | 2000 | 7 | It is important to restate several critical facts overlooked by this 'colonialist paradigm' |
| Tom Segev | 2023 | 8 | “colonialism is irrelevant to the Zionist experience.” Zionists were motivated primarily by “a historical vision for their future identity in what they considered their ancient homeland” rather than an “imperial strategic or economic vision or a desire to dominate the local population.” “most Jewish immigrants in Palestine and Israel did not come as Zionists but as refugees.” |
| Ilan Troen | 2019 | 9 | Without evidence or argument, it neatly defines Jews as invaders and the Jewish state as an intruding colonial-settler society in the service of an imperialistic mission. |
| Yuval shany | 2023 | 10 | dealing with the establishment of Israel as a colonial enterprise is “a significant category error.” It cannot apply to a conflict involving “two indigenous peoples.” It is misplaced given that the 20th-century influx of persecuted European Jews came from a historically indigenous “population of refugees not sent by any empire.” It cannot be applied to the many other Jews from Muslim North African and Middle Eastern countries who arrived in Israel after they suffered expulsion. |
| Jeffrey C. Alexander | 2023 | 11 | “Wars and social movements need to connect to dominant cultural tropes, and colonialism has become the go-to term for total pollution”,“Branding Israel with this term is seen as effective, even if it connects Jews to the very white European colonizers who murdered them by the millions.” |
| Moses Lissak | 2009 | 12 | The relation of the Jews to the Land of Israel is not colonial. It is religious and cultural. |
| Ruth Ginio | 2024 | 13 | "there is no real basis for the claim that the entire Zionist project and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 can be equated with European colonialism", "This is not a situation of colonialism according to its historical definition, but rather a situation of two conflicting nations sharing the same territory". |
| Fania Oz-Salzberger | 2024 | 14 | What about colonialism? Despite its pioneers’ European origins, Zionism is not, and never was, a colonialist project |
| Avi Berli | 2003 | 15 | The Colonialist School creates, then, a historical fiction which it calls "Zionism," but which is not really Zionism. |
| Robert Wistrich | 16 | ||
| Zeev Sternhell | 2010 | 17 | the land was thus an existential necessity. Zionism was a stringent nationalism, a radical nationalism; but to claim that the arrivals were white settlers driven by a colonialist mind-set does not correspond to historical reality. The overwhelming majority - the Polish Jews in the 1920s, the German Jews in the 1930s, the displaced persons after the Second World War and the end of the British Mandate - came because they had nowhere else to go. The same applies to the immigrants after 1948, forced out of the Arab countries as a result of the founding of the State of Israel. To speak of a colonialist mentality in their case is absurd. The institutions set up in the inter-war period aimed at ensuring Jewish autonomy in all areas, rather than subjugating the Arabs of Palestine or expelling them. |
| Susie Linfield | 2019 | 18 | Wishful thinking on the Left is combined with a Manichaean world view: extreme animus against Israelis, identified as the evil white colonists, combined with an idealisation of the Palestinians, cast as the oppressed non-white revolutionaries. But what follows from any kind of Manichaean world is falsity, bad politics, and bad political analysis, because the world itself isn’t actually Manichaean. |
| John Strawson | 2019 | 19 | |
| Jeffery Herf | 2023 | 20 | the Zionist project was never a colonialist one. |
| Alvin Rosenfeld | 2023 | 21 | Today, a particularly virulent strain of antisemitism holds not just the Jews but the Jewish state guilty. Guilty of what? Of the cardinal sin according to many on the Left today: the imperialist oppression of non-whites. According to this view, the “settler-colonialist” Jews arrived from Europe and Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries and set about stripping the indigenous Palestinians of their national rights. Never mind that there had never been a sovereign Arab Palestine or that the Jews returned to Israel to create a state only because their Russian and European “hosts” had made their life unbearable or actively sought to end it. When an independent state was offered to the Arabs in 1947, they rejected it. Nevertheless, the Jews went on to establish a sovereign state of their own, which flourishes 75 years after its creation. |
| Martin Kramer | 22 | ||
| Gerald Steinberg | 23 | ||
| Alan Dowty | 24 | ||
| Yakobson, Alexander | 25 | ||
| Allan Johnson | 26 | An Open Letter to Peter Gabriel et al explaining why Israel is not a ‘Settler Colonial’ society | |
| Irwin Cotler | 27 | ||
| Gil Troy | 28 | ||
| Donna Robinson Divine | 29 | ||
| Milton Shain | 30 | ||
| Norman Goda | 31 | ||
| Carry Nelson | 2019 | 32 | “Claims that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state, that it was an illegitimate colonialist enterprise from the outset, are indeed anti-Semitic in effect.” |
| Philip Carl Salzman | 33 | So the claim that Israelis are “colonial settlers” doesn’t hold water. Aside from the small population of Jews who never left the Holy Land, most of the returnees were refugees, half from Arab countries. | |
| Moshe Postone | 2010 | 34 | Why is it that people don’t see what the situation is today, and try to see if there is a kind of resolution to what is essentially a national conflict that could free up progressive politics? To subsume the conflict under the rubric of colonialism misrecognizes the situation. |
| David Hirsh | 2007 | 35 | In the middle of the 20th century Israel was not imagined as a European colony. It is strained, to say the least, to believe that Jews in the refugee camps in Europe and in British Cyprus, recovering from starvation and from existences as non-humans, were thinking of themselves as standard bearers of ‘the European idea’. The seamless insertion of the history of ‘Zionism’ into a schematic history of colonialism casts Jews as going to Palestine in order to get rich on the back of the people who lived there. Jews, who are said to embody some European idea of whiteness, also embodied a European idea of rats and cockroaches which was held to constitute an existential threat to Europe. |
| Abram de Swaan | 2004 | 36 | This article seeks to show that such criticism often expresses a very different sentiment, an “anti-Israeli enthusiasm”. A vent for righteous indignation that brings some relief from the still-burning shame of the memory of the Shoah, it employs facile equations reducing the Jewish State to the last bastion of colonialism and thereby conceals the true issues underlying this conflict. |
| Josef Joffe | 2024 | 37 | Taught from Stockton, Calif., to Stockholm, Sweden, the doctrine has at its core white supremacy, which must be crushed. The gist is Western guilt, and it must be exorcised by laying it first and foremost on the colonialist state of Israel, i.e., the Jews. |
| David Ohana | 2012 | 38 | The colonialist discourse is not a new one. The analogy, however, has been disproved by the facts. The Zionist settlement of Palestine took place without military or political assistance from foreign states and so does not resemble any colonialist movement. Zionism was not a religious movement, but a national movement that saw the return to Zion as the modern expression of a people that wished to forge its collective destiny through a return to its historical sources. The Israelis created a rejuvenated homeland and established an identity between a large part of the people and their soil; they developed settlement, science, and technology, achieved a clear national identity with a culture, language, and creativity of its own, and succeeded in maintaining a democratic existence (within the “Green Line”) under the most trying condition there can be for a democracy – a protracted military conflict. Most important of all, the Israelis never felt strangers in their country. They did not apologize for their national existence, but saw it as the historical realization of a universal right supported by international recognition – not as an original sin. |
| Julia Edthofer | 2015 | 39 | it is demonstrated that the de-colonial framing of Israel as a "Western colonial project" can blur with antisemitic stereotypes--for instance when Israel is depicted as a neo-colonial evil par excellence and "Jewish complicity" with Western (neo)-colonialism is postulated. |
| Brian Klug | 40 | For Jews in the shtetls of Eastern Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s (like my grandparents), the burning question was not “How can we extend the reach of Europe?” but “How can we escape it?” That was the Jewish Jewish Question. Like Europe’s Jewish Question, it too was not new; and it was renewed with a vengeance after the walls of Europe closed in during the first half of the last century, culminating in the ultimate crushing experience: genocide. Among the Jewish answers to the Jewish Jewish Question was migration to Palestine. But, by and large, the Jews who moved to Palestine after the Shoah were not so much emigrants as (literally or in effect) refugees. | |
| Philip Spencer | 41 | ||
| Mitchell Cohen | 42 | ||
| Gabriel Noah Brahm | 43 | “Critical race theory” brands Jews not only as “white” (a term used on campus to mean “structurally racist”) but “hyper-white” (the whitest, therefore most racist of all). Theories of “settler colonialism” misrepresent Jews as colonizers in their own indigenous lands. | |
| Uriel Abulof | 44 | Yet I find the “Zionism (Israel) = colonialism = apartheid” equation factually false, intellectually lazy, morally wrong and practically counterproductive. | |
| Gideon Shimoni | 45 | ||
| Chaim Gans | 46 | ||
| Leslie Klaff | 47 | ||
| Joshua Cole | 48 | ||
| Rachel Fish | 2023 | 49 | On social media, Jews were painted as white-supremacist colonial settlers oppressing an indigenous ethnic minority. Very quickly, we saw that by employing these false labels, Israel wasn’t just accused of apartheid; on Twitter, apartheid came to mean Israel exclusively. |
| Balazs Berkovits | 50 |
21st century Encyclopedias[edit]
| Encyclopedia name and details | Editor name | Article author name | Zionism described as colonial/colonization movement in first paragraph? If yes, how? | Zionism described as colonial/colonization movement in rest of lead section[1]? If yes, how? | Zionism described as colonial/colonization movement in rest of the article? If yes, how? |
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| Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Facts on File. 2000. p. 454. | Philip Mattar | Neil Caplan | no | no | |
| The continuum political encyclopedia of the Middle East (2nd ed.). Continuum. 2002. p. 928 | Avraham Sela | Avraham Sela | no | no | |
| Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa.[2] (2nd ed.). Gale. 2004. Vol. 4. p. 2431 | Philip Mattar | Donna Robinson Divine; Neil Caplan | no | no | |
| Dictionary of the History of Ideas.[2] (2nd ed.). Charles Scribner's Sons. 2004. | Maryanne Cline Horowitz | Arthur Hertzberg | no | no | |
| Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Macmillan Reference USA. 2004. Vol 2. p. 483 | Claude Faure | Claude Faure | no[3] | no | |
| Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies. Routledge. 2004. p. 459 | Ellis Cashmore | Ellis Cashmore | no[4] | no | |
| Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture. Routledge. 2005. Vol 2. p. 983 | Glenda Abramson | Noah Lucas | no[5] | no | |
| Encyclopedia of Religion (2nd ed.)[2]. Gale. 2005. Vol 15. | Lindsay Jones | David Biale | no | no | |
| Europe 1789 to 1914 : Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire.[2] Vol. 5. Gale. 2006. p. 2518 | John Merriman; Jay Winter | Steven Beller | no | no | |
| Europe since 1914 : encyclopedia of the age of war and reconstruction. Vol. 5. Gale. 2006. p. 2816. | John Merriman; Jay Winter | Paula Hyman | no | no | |
| Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd ed.)[2] Vol 21. Gale. 2006. p. 539 | Fred Skolnik | Numerous scholars | no | no | |
| Encyclopedia of Race And Racism. Vol. 3 (1st ed.). Gale. 2008. p. 240. | John Hartwell Moore | Noel Ignatiev | no | no | |
| International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. (2nd ed.)[2][6] Gale. 2008. | William A. Darity Jr | Jonathan Boyarin | no[7] | no | |
| The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. Wiley. 2009. | Immanuel Ness | Shellie K. McCullough | no | no | no |
| Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2010. Vol 3. p. 1660. | Cheryl Rubenberg | Zachary Lackman | no[8] | yes, but attributed: "Palestinians have regarded Zionism as essentially a colonial-settler enterprise" | |
| The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Columbia University Press. 2010 | no | no | |||
| International Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE. 2011. p. 2765 | Bertrand Bradie | Alain Dieckhoff | no | no | |
| The Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE. 2011. Vol 5. p. 1799 | George Thomas Kurian | Jerome Copulsky | no | no | |
| Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Vol. 4. SAGE Publications. 2012. p. 1835. | Helmut Anheier; Mark Juergensmeyer | Aviva Halamish | no | no | |
| "Sionisme". Larousse (in French). 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-12-20. | no | no | |||
| Encyclopedia of race and racism. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). Gale. 2013. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-02-866195-7. | Patrick Mason | Paul Scham | no | no | |
| The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Wiley. 2013. | David A. Snow | Rottem Sagi | no | paragraph 4: "In pursuit of his goals, Herzl attempted to solicit the support of Baron de Hirsch, a multimillionaire who had already founded the Jewish Colonization Association" | no |
| Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought. SAGE. 2013. p. 869 | Gregory Claeys | Gadi Taub | no | no | no |
| Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, Springer US, 2014, p. 1960 | David Adam Leeming | Kate M. Loewenthal | no | ?
not in first 2 paragraphs, and these are the only ones freely available online. |
? |
| The Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Wiley. 2014 | Michael T. Gibbons | Tamara M. Zwick | no | no | yes, but attributed:
"Others make the case that Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel represent colonial aggression" |
| The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. Wiley. 2015. | John Stone | Dafna Hirsch | "the Zionist movement promoted the colonization of Palestine" | no | last paragraph, but attributed:
"A non-Zionist critique of Zionism regards it as a version of European settler colonialism" |
| Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledgde. 2016. | Vassiliki Kolocotroni | Nathan Devir | no | ?
not freely available |
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| International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Freie Universität Berlin. 2018 | Ute Daniel | Ofer Idels | no | no | no |
| Middle East Conflicts from Ancient Egypt to the 21st Century: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Vol. 4. ABC-CLIO. 2019. p. 1376. | Spencer C Tucker | Amy Blackwell | no[9] | no | TBF |
| "Zionism". Britannica. Archived from the original on June 28, 2024. Last Updated: Jun 30, 2024 | no | no | no |
Comments:
- The encyclopedias are ordered by publication date of the edition that is used. This is of course not an exhaustive list of all possibly relevant encyclopedias in the 21st century. There were encyclopedias that were not accessible to me at all, and its very likely there are others that I missed entirely in my searches. However I believe this presents a significant portion, maybe even the majority of relevant encyclopedias that have an article about Zionism. So I think it's unlikely that the results would change significantly when more encyclopedias are found (and anyone is of course free to look for more).
- I provided links to most of the sources. There were a few that I found offline in my library. For these I supplied the text of the first paragraph in the footnotes. Images can be sent on demand.
- With regard to opening defining sentence (see MOS:FIRST) specifically it might be useful to also look at reputable dictionaries, which are the experts in defining subjects in one sentence. Looking at 6 of the leading online dictionaries (1 2 3 4 5 6) we find that none of them mentions colonization/colonialism in its definition of Zionism.
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Genocide Debate[edit]
| Name | Month | Profession | Source | (English or autotranslated and verified) example statement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segal | October 2023 | Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Jewish Currents | "A Textbook Case of Genocide" | Already in article |
| Genocide Watch | October 2023 | Antigenocide NGO | Genocide Watch | "This settler ideology is supported by Likud, the party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is committed to further settlement expansion. Like the American ideology of "manifest destiny," this settler ideology is used to justify forced displacement of Palestinians who have lived in the occupied territories for thousands of years.", "Dehumanization of the enemy is common in wars and genocides. It is already evident in this war, with Hamas militants spitting on and mutilating bodies of their victims and the Israeli Defence Minister calling Hamas "human animals." Dehumanization is a stage of genocide.", "Genocide Watch considers the war in Israel and Gaza to be at Stage 3: Discrimination, Stage 4: Dehumanization, Stage 5: Organization, Stage 6: Polarization, Stage 8: Persecution, and Stage 9: Extermination." | Already in article |
| Fassin | October 2023 | Anthropologist and sociologist | Le Monde | "La directrice exécutive de Jewish Voice for Peace a lancé un vibrant « plaidoyer juif », appelant à « se dresser contre l'acte de génocide d'Israël ». Couper l'eau, l'électricité et le gaz, interrompre l'approvisionnement en nourriture et envoyer des missiles sur les marchés où les habitants tentent de se ravitailler, bombarder des ambulances et des hôpitaux déjà privés de tout ce qui leur permet de fonctionner, tuer des médecins et leur famille : la conjonction du siège total, des frappes aériennes et bientôt des troupes au sol condamne à mort un très grand nombre de civils – par les armes, la faim et la soif, le défaut de soins aux malades et aux blessés." [The executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace has issued a vibrant "Jewish plea," calling for "standing up against Israel's act of genocide." Cutting off water, electricity and gas, interrupting food supplies and sending missiles into markets where residents are trying to get supplies, bombing ambulances and hospitals already deprived of everything that allows them to function, killing doctors and their families: the combination of total siege, airstrikes and soon ground troops is condemning a very large number of civilians to death – by weapons, hunger and thirst, and the failure to care for the sick and wounded.], "Du premier génocide du XXe siècle, celui des Herero, en 1904, mené par l'armée allemande en Afrique australe, qui, selon les estimations, a provoqué 100 000 morts de déshydratation et de dénutrition, au génocide des juifs d'Europe et à celui des Tutsi, la non-reconnaissance de la qualité d'êtres humains à ceux qu'on veut éliminer et leur assimilation à des animaux a été le prélude aux pires violences." [From the first genocide of the 20th century, that of the Herero in 1904, carried out by the German army in southern Africa, which, according to estimates, caused 100,000 deaths from dehydration and malnutrition, to the genocide of the Jews of Europe and that of the Tutsi, the non-recognition of the quality of human beings of those who are to be eliminated and their assimilation to animals has been the prelude to the worst violence.] | |
| Illouz | October 2023 | Professor of sociology | Le Monde | "military response … against an enemy which has violated borders and international law, … is not genocide" | Already in article |
| Kittel | October 2023 | History Professor | Berliner Zeitung | No, Israel's military response is not genocide – regardless of whether one uses narrower or broader definitions of the term. | |
| 800 scholars | October 2023 | Various scholars, most of whom in relevant fields. | TWAILR journal website | "we are compelled to sound the alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.", "Language used by Israeli political and military figures appears to reproduce rhetoric and tropes associated with genocide and incitement to genocide.", "Evidence of incitement to genocide has also been present in Israeli public discourse." | Already in article |
| Center for Constitutional Rights | October 2023 | legal advocacy organization | The Intercept | "Katherine Gallagher, senior attorney with CCR and a legal representative for victims in the pending ICC investigation in Palestine, told The Intercept. "U.S. officials can be held responsible for their failure to prevent Israel's unfolding genocide, as well as for their complicity, by encouraging it and materially supporting it."" | Already in article;
There is then also the CCR’s full 44-page briefing declaring it genocide and naming the US as a complicit party (not in article). |
| UN Special Rapporteurs | October 2023 | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation,
Special Rapporteur on Violence against women and girls, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance |
OHCHR | ""We are sounding the alarm: There is an ongoing campaign by Israel resulting in crimes against humanity in Gaza. Considering statements made by Israeli political leaders and their allies, accompanied by military action in Gaza and escalation of arrests and killing in the West Bank, there is also a risk of genocide against the Palestinian People," the experts said." | |
| Mokhiber | October 2023 | Specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology | The New Republic | "A director of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights has resigned, issuing a lengthy letter condemning the organization, the U.S., and Western media companies for their positions on the war between Israel and Hamas, which he described as a "text-book case of genocide."", ""Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it," wrote Craig Mokhiber, the group's New York office director, who had worked with the U.N. for more than three decades."" | |
| 100 civil rights organisations and 6 scholars | October 2023 | Scholars:
Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Historian, specialising in Jewish History, Anatomical Pathology Technologist (part of Forensic Team at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Justice, Historian and Sociologist, Anthropologist specialising in Human Rights and Genocide |
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights | "clear intent to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and incitement to commit genocide, using dehumanizing language to describe Palestinians." | |
| Berenbaum & Zavadivker | November 2023 | Historians and Holocaust scholars: | Jerusalem Post | "Israel has no greater ambition than to coexist with the Palestinians as peaceful neighbors; [The genocide claims] "threaten future attempts to identify, prevent, and prosecute that crime. It is equally damaging to the legitimacy of Holocaust and Genocide Studies as a field when such false claims are presented in the guise of scholarly expertise."" | |
| Fassin | November 2023 | Anthropologist and sociologist | AOC | "Didier Fassin joue un rôle de lanceur d’alerte lorsqu'il écrit le 1er novembre 2023 : « Alors que la plupart des gouvernements occidentaux continuent de dire "le droit d'Israël à se défendre" sans y mettre de réserves autres que rhétoriques et sans même imaginer un droit semblable pour les Palestiniens, il y a en effet une responsabilité historique à prévenir ce qui pourrait devenir le premier génocide du XXIe siècle. »" [Didier Fassin plays the role of whistleblower when he writes on November 1, 2023: "While most Western governments continue to say "Israel's right to defend itself" without any reservations other than rhetorical ones and without even imagining a similar right for the Palestinians, there is indeed a historical responsibility to prevent what could become the first genocide of the 21st century."] | |
| Jürgen Habermas, Klaus Günther, Rainer Forst & Nicole Deitelhoff | November 2023 | Philosopher and Social Theorist; Professor of Law; Philosopher; Political Scientist | Site of "Normative Orders" Research Center at Goethe University Frankfurt | The Hamas massacre with the declared intention of eliminating Jewish life in general has prompted Israel to strike back. How this retaliation, which is justified in principle, is carried out is the subject of controversial debate; principles of proportionality, the prevention of civilian casualties and the waging of a war with the prospect of future peace must be the guiding principles. Despite all the concern for the fate of the Palestinian population, however, the standards of judgement slip completely when genocidal intentions are attributed to Israel’s actions. | |
| Butler | November 2023 | Philosopher | Frankfurter Rundschau | Q: "Welche Reaktion erhoffen Sie sich als Unterzeichnerin des offenen Briefes "Philosophie für Palästina"?." [What reaction do you hope to get as a signatory of the open letter "Philosophy for Palestine"?]
A: "Ich hoffe, dass der Völkermord an der Zivilbevölkerung in Gaza ein Ende hat. Es gibt Menschen, die sich von einem Völkermord abwenden, wenn er geschieht, und später bereuen, dass sie sich geweigert haben, das zu benennen, was sie sehen und wissen. Ich schließe mich denen an, die diese bösartige und vorsätzliche Gewalt als "Völkermord" bezeichnen, denn sie entspricht der Definition der Völkermordkonvention." [I hope that the genocide of the civilian population in Gaza will come to an end. There are people who turn away from genocide when it happens, and later regret that they refused to name what they see and know. I join those who call this vicious and deliberate violence "genocide" because it corresponds to the definition of the Genocide Convention.] |
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| Shaw | November 2023 | International relations prof, Sociologist specialising in genocide | New Lines Magazine | ""Genocide" is generally under-deployed because states wish to avoid the responsibilities to "prevent and punish" that the convention imposes on signatories, but there is a special aversion to investigating its implications for Israel’s conduct. Western states continue to protect it out of a misplaced belief that Jews, having been prime historical victims of genocide, cannot also be its perpetrators. Israel’s current policies are rapidly destroying that conceit, however, and bringing closer the day when its leaders — as well as those of Hamas — will be brought to account for their crimes." | Already in article |
| 154 Holocaust scholars | November 2023 | Holocaust scholars | open letter at a conference in Prague | "Today, more than ever, we need to reaffirm, without any caveats, the right of Jews to live in Israel and to defend themselves against those who deny Israel and Jews the right to exist. We deplore the humanitarian catastrophe of the Palestinian people in Gaza and note that it derives directly from the use of civilians as human shields by the Hamas. We, the scholars of the Holocaust assembled in Prague at the Lessons & Legacies conference, as well as other Holocaust scholars and persons devoted to Holocaust memory, unequivocally condemn the politics of terror pursued by Hamas and denounce the forces of global antisemitism." | McDoom talks about the statement in this journal article |
| Jikeli | November 2023 | Historian | research paper | "Only five posts were positive about Israel, some refuting the accusation that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians. Notorious Jewish critics of Israel, such as Norman Finkelstein (Figure 11), Gabor Maté, and Jane Hirschmann were repeatedly used to accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and genocide, often with embedded videos.", "It is worth noting that according to the United Nations definition of genocide, the Hamas massacre is genocide, while the Gaza war is not." | |
| 48 scholars | November 2023 | Professor of Law and Globalisation,
Professor of Criminology, Professor of Criminology, Senior lecturer in Sociology, Professor of Social Anthropology, 43 other scholars |
International State Crime Initiative | "the Israeli state is employing its extensive and advanced military capacity to inflict violence on Palestinian peoples on such a scale that it is accurate to frame it as the annihilation phase of genocide.", "Israel's announcement of a state of 'total siege' of Gaza, cutting off water, food, electricity and medical supplies, amounted to a clear statement of intent to commit genocide against the Palestinian people by 'deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part' (Genocide Convention 1948, Article 2)." | Already in article |
| Waxman | November 2023 | professor of political science | Jewish Currents | "To be sure, some of the deeply disturbing rhetoric coming from senior figures in the Israeli government [..] raises the risk of genocidal actions. [..] However, to claim that genocide is already occurring requires stretching the concept too far, emptying it of any meaning." | Already in article via Vox article |
| Buser | November 2023 | Historian] | The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles | "This is not genocide." | |
| Blatman | November 2023 | Holocaust historian | Haaretz | "The mere fact that Israel and the Palestinians have been waging a bloody war between them for four generations, and they are both committing war crimes and hair-raising acts of violence, still does not mean that a genocide began in Gaza in October 2023" | |
| Eghbariah | November 2023 | Human rights lawyer and academic | The Nation | "Some may claim that the invocation of genocide, especially in Gaza, is fraught. But does one have to wait for a genocide to be successfully completed to name it? This logic contributes to the politics of denial. When it comes to Gaza, there is a sense of moral hypocrisy that undergirds Western epistemological approaches, one which mutes the ability to name the violence inflicted upon Palestinians.", "If the international community takes its crimes seriously, then the discussion about the unfolding genocide in Gaza is not a matter of mere semantics.", "Numerous statements made by top Israeli politicians affirm their intentions. There is a forming consensus among leading scholars in the field of genocide studies that "these statements could easily be construed as indicating a genocidal intent," as Omer Bartov, an authority in the field, writes." | |
| Verdeja | November 2023 | Professor of peace studies and global politics (with a focus on genocide) | Time | "Verdeja says Israel's actions in Gaza are moving toward a “genocidal campaign." While he notes that it is clear Israeli forces intend to destroy Hamas, "the response when you have a security crisis…can be one of ceasefire, negotiation, or it can be genocide."" | Already in article |
| Sanford | November 2023 | Anthropologist specialising in Human Rights and Genocide | Time | "City University of New York professor Victoria Sanford compares what's happening in Gaza to the killing or disappearance of more than 200,000 Mayans in Guatemala from 1960-1996, known as the Guatemalan genocide" | Already in article |
| Simon | November 2023 | Global Affairs professor, Director of the genocide studies | Time | "Israel has only explicitly said they want to exterminate Hamas, and has not directly stated intent to "destroy a religious, ethnic or racial group." Simon says it's possible a court could conclude that either Hamas or some elements of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) could be found guilty of committing an act of genocide, but "it's certainly not textbook in that connecting the intent to destroy ethnic group as such is difficult."" | Already in article |
| Kiernan | November 2023 | Historian, Professor of International and Area Studies | Time | "Israel's retaliatory bombing of Gaza, however indiscriminate, and its current ground attacks, despite the numerous civilian casualties they are causing among Gaza's Palestinian population, do not meet the very high threshold that is required to meet the legal definition of genocide." | Already in article |
| Hinton | November 2023 | Anthropologist, Chair on genocide prevention | Time | "when Mokhiber called it a "textbook case of genocide," he seemed to be "drawing on a more social scientific understanding that looks at settler colonialism and sort of this long term gradual erasure of a group."" | Already in article |
| Bartov | November 2023 | Holocaust and Genocide Studies professor | The New York Times | "As a historian of genocide, I believe that there is no proof that genocide is currently taking place in Gaza, although it is very likely that war crimes, and even crimes against humanity, are happening.", "functionally and rhetorically we may be watching an ethnic cleansing operation that could quickly devolve into genocide, as has happened more than once in the past." | Already in article |
| Friling, Jockusch, Steier-Livny, Patt & Porat | November 2023 | Historians and Holocaust scholars: | Haaretz | "Charging Israel With Genocide in Gaza Is Inflammatory and Dangerous. Historians must be guided by the facts, not political agendas. But when Omer Bartov in The New York Times charged Israel with 'verging' into genocide and ethnic cleansing, he grounded his argument in assertions, not evidence." | Already in article |
| Goda & Herf | November 2023 | Historians and Holocaust scholars: | New York Times | "Israel's targets are military: Hamas's soldiers, tunnels, headquarters and weapons stocks. By placing military targets in and under civilian structures, it is Hamas that violates laws of war.
The 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention mentions demonstrable intent to destroy a national, racial or religious group. Mr. Bartov is mute about Israel's hundreds of phone calls to Gazans warning them to leave buildings in which Hamas fighters were located. Israel has urged civilians to evacuate to the south to escape battle. A government intent on genocide would do the opposite." |
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| Michlic | November 2023 | genocide scholar | Belfast Newletter | "The left that expresses these ideas have no intellectual knowledge of international laws making clear distinctions between different ways of killings", "Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza that entails urban house-to-house fighting that regrettably creates many civilian causalities, as in other wars of this type". | |
| Kotek | November 2023 | genocide scholar | L'Express | "The Israeli offensive on Gaza is nothing like the Herero genocide" | |
| Spencer | November 2023 | urban warfare researcher | CNN | "Israel is upholding the laws of war" | |
| Karsenti et al | November 2023 | Political scientist, historian and sociologists: | AOC | "By denying their historical connection with Palestine and by attributing a genocidal intention to those who built a state to protect themselves from any genocidal recurrence, Didier Fassin reactivates a classic anti-Semitic gesture that always proceeds by inversion: accusing the Jews of being guilty of what one is preparing to do or fantasizes about doing to them.","And yet, one must choose sides on the question of whether or not one recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist. If one recognizes it, then the massacre of civilians, intentionally targeted on its sovereign territory, gives it the right not only to defend itself, but to take the necessary measures to ensure that this can never happen again, and therefore to eliminate Hamas, whose program this is." | |
| Crane | November 2023 | International law scholar | NPR | "It's not an easy case because you have to have that smoking gun. So, you know, I respectfully disagree with his [Mokhiber's] approach on this. If you look at both parties in this tragedy that is unfolding, the prime minister of Israel has to specifically state that, I intend to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinian people. And I would suggest, respectfully, that that has not been said. Now, they have a long-term problem politically, practically and legally related to their treatment of the Palestinians. But I would beg to differ. I don't think one would categorize that as genocide." | |
| Corn | November 2023 | Professor of law and expert on military law | The Jewish Chronicle | "Many accuse Israel of genocide. These accusations undermine the meaning of what they allege. It might be appealing to toss such accusations about but, as Justice Stewart warned, the significance of the concept of war crimes and credibility of the law is eroded by such overbroad and often invalid accusations.
One need only consider the genocide accusation. Palestinians make up 20 percent of the Israeli population with the same civil rights and legal privileges as any other Israeli citizen. How this aligns with the accusation that Israel is engaged in a systemic effort to destroy this ethnic group is perplexing. Nor do casualties in Gaza support even suspicion of genocide." |
The view that Palestinians enjoy the "same civil rights and legal privileges" is highly contested by other legal experts. |
| Ben Hounet | December 2023 | Social anthropologist | Lundi.am | "Beaucoup de chercheurs en France et en Europe se refusent à parler de génocide et évoquent, au mieux, le terme de nettoyage ethnique. Faut-il leur rappeler que de nombreux génocides ont été perpétrés dans la continuation du nettoyage ethnique et lorsque celui-ci a été rendu impossible ? Combien de cases faudra-il cocher avant que les puissances occidentales se décident à réagir fermement et que les intellectuels se saisissent vraiment de ce sujet ?" [Many researchers in France and Europe refuse to talk about genocide and, at best, use the term ethnic cleansing. Should we remind them that many genocides have been perpetrated in the continuation of ethnic cleansing and when it has been made impossible? How many boxes will have to be ticked before Western powers decide to react firmly and intellectuals really take up this subject?] | |
| Ambos | December 2023 | professor of criminal law and head of the Department of Foreign and International Criminal Law | Hard to group into a clear category | "Bartov chooses his words carefully. He warns of possibly impending genocide without claiming it is happening already. Some statements of certain Israeli policymakers are indeed worrisome. Yet, while they may be relevant for proving the necessary specific intent, they cannot automatically be attributed to the persons who are taking the military decisions." | |
| Multiple specialists in international medicine | December 2023 | The Lancet | "Before October's escalation of violence, the effect of the Israeli siege of Gaza had already been described as a "slow-motion genocide".", "We situate this violence in relation to the definition of genocide as described in Article 2 of the Genocide Convention, focusing on physical elements including killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, creating life-threatening conditions, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children.", "As public health and humanitarian professionals, we the authors state emphatically that the grave risk of genocide against the Palestinian people warrants immediate—and now overdue—action." | Already in article | |
| Finkelstein | December 2023 | Political scientist | GV Wire | "countered that Israel has been engaging in a genocidal war in Gaza since the conflict's inception" | Already in article |
| Segal et al. | December 2023 | 60 scholars in Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Contending Modernities | "We, scholars of the Holocaust, genocide, and mass violence, feel compelled to warn of the danger of genocide in Israel's attack on Gaza.", "Moreover, dozens of statements of Israeli leaders, ministers in the war cabinet, and senior army officers since 7 October—that is, people with command authority—suggest an "intent to destroy" Palestinians "as such," in the language of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide." | Already in article |
| Lemkin Institute | December 2023 | Antigenocide NGO | Lemkin Institute | "The genocide being perpetrated by the State of Israel is embedded in a complex historical, political, and strategic context that seems to have fostered and, ultimately, devolved into a pervasive genocidal dynamic on both sides of the conflict – Israel, on the one hand, and the Islamist militant organization known as Hamas, on the other – as well as among segments of their respective populations, especially, as will be explained below, in the case of Israel.", "The Lemkin Institute believes that Israel’s retaliation against Palestinians amounts not only to war crimes and crimes against humanity, but also to genocide, as also asserted by, among others, the former Director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Craig Mokhiber." | Already in article |
| Patel | December 2023 | Legal researcher, reader in International law (holds LLM) | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | ""The intent that we have observed is extensive and it comes from all quarters of the Israeli state," said Anisha Patel, a legal researcher with the group Law for Palestine — which provides legal analysis on international law as it relates to Palestinians." | |
| Jones | December 2023 | Political scientist, specialisng in genocide | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | ""I believe that the events of Oct. 7 qualify as a genocidal massacre of Israelis. I also think that the Israeli response, and indeed long standing Israeli policy towards the Gazan population, evinces elements of genocidal thinking and increasingly practice," he said." | |
| Ayyash | December 2023 | Sociologist specialising in violence and colonialism | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | "He says what's happening in Gaza is "a deliberate genocidal operation" and that Canada is complicit by having not called for a ceasefire." | |
| Rosensaft | January 2024 | Professor of law, expert on genocide law | Times of Israel | "The word genocide is used willy-nilly by people all over the world, but genocide, as it has evolved since 1948 when the genocide convention was first adopted by the UN General Assembly, is a legal concept. And whatever else Israel is doing, and has done, it is not intending to destroy the Palestinian people; either on the West Bank or in Gaza", "Even Netanyahu, with whom I fundamentally disagree on most issues, is not planning to evict the Palestinians from Gaza. So the term genocide does not work.", "October 7 was a deliberate action by a genocidal organization that targeted Israeli — meaning Jewish — civilians: women, men, children, and the elderly." | |
| Paul | January 2024 | Professor of law | San Fransisco Chroncile | "I see no evidence that Israel is trying to destroy all or a substantial part of the Palestinians." | |
| Mirsky | January 2024 | Middle east and human rights expert | UnHerd | "South Africa was able to present evidence of genocidal-sounding intent from any number of political actors in the Netanyahu government. None of them, though, have direct decision-making authority over the conduct of the war, leading to open hostility between some of them (Itamar Ben-Gvir above all) with the IDF high command. That direct authority is reserved not just to the military professionals, but to the war cabinet, convened by Netanyahu to insulate him from his own coalition partners, and in which the political opposition to Netanyahu is well-represented; given Israeli public fury at Netanyahu, he would no longer be in power if they weren’t in the room. Moreover, if genocide were Israel’s aim, issuing warnings before bombings, creating humanitarian corridors (however limited), and allowing in food and other necessities would be a pretty poor way of going about it." | This ignores the comments made by IDF leadership, and members of the war government, whose comments were also included as evidence. |
| Dershowitz | January 2024 | Professor of law | Ynet | "Israel did not commit genocide, the number of civilians who were killed is proportional to the number of combatants, it is lower than any war in modern history. Israel is trying its best to preserve civilian life, whereas Hamas is doing its best to take civilian lives." | |
| 1,347 francophone academics | January 2024 | (most relevant not all) | L'Humanité | "Nous nous opposons aux graves violations par Israël des droits humains et de la liberté académique des Palestiniens, à la guerre génocidaire en cours à Gaza ainsi qu'aux arrestations et détentions arbitraires en particulier celles subies par les étudiants et le personnel palestinien dans les universités de Cisjordanie." [We oppose Israel's grave violations of Palestinian human rights and academic freedom, the ongoing genocidal war in Gaza, and arbitrary arrests and detentions, particularly those suffered by Palestinian students and staff in West Bank universities.] | |
| El-Affendi | January 2024 | Professor of Politics and Dean of Social Sciences | Journal of Genocide Research | "If the (televised) Syrian genocide was the first internationally tolerated series of atrocities, then the recent genocidal violence in Gaza is the first with active input from the "international community."", "One maxim it should state is: if a series of actions approach genocide sufficiently to occasion a debate on whether they are genocide or not, then they are evil enough to be denounced without ifs or buts" | Already in article |
| Üngör | January 2024 | Professor of genocide studies | Journal of Genocide Research | "The dynamic of violence since 7 October then is not a qualitative transmutation, but a corollary of the path-dependent history of the conflict: asymmetrical power relations, and annihilatory attitudes towards civilians.", "It is also evident to most observers that the Israeli reaction is unmistakably counter-genocidal in terms of the quantity, quality, and dynamic of mass violence. Even if we disregard the quantitative dimension of the ongoing death toll, an analysis of the qualitative elements of the violence indicates a complex process of destruction." | Already in article |
| Lederman | January 2024 | Holocaust scholar | Journal of Genocide Research | "On 7 October, Gaza became a laboratory for genocidal violence. I use this term to distinguish it from genocide per se, to refer to violence that has certain genocidal characteristics but not others.", "Considering the importance of settler colonialism as a frame of analysis in genocide studies, we may do well to consider Gaza as a laboratory not just for the dynamic of settler colonialism and its contemporary relevance as underlying hegemonic legal, political, and moral frameworks, but also for the politics of applying this frame and its moral implications." | Already in article |
| Samudzi | January 2024 | Sociologist | Journal of Genocide Research | "Thus, inhered within this strategy, within Israel's retaliatory campaign on Gaza, is a transtemporal logic of genocide that attempts to neutralize the Gazan Palestinian in the present so as altogether displace and/or eliminate its presence and foreclose the possibility of its future.", "Because of the legal impunity that Israel has enjoyed, the question of genocide in Palestine transcends the applicability of the Genocide Convention (though, arguably, present violence in Gaza includes nearly every act outlined in Article II) and can be better sociologically understood through the eight techniques of genocide outlined by Lemkin himself." | Already in article |
| Levene | January 2024 | History Professor | Journal of Genocide Research | "All that said, if the utterance of genocide too obviously sticks in the craw for those like Illouz, who might read an inherent dissonance in the implication of a post-Holocaust state committing the act – arguably the ultimate Jewish taboo – there might be other routes by which we could overcome a semantic disagreement.", "The reality of the situation, whatever nomenclature genocide scholars may consider most appropriate – genocide, genocidal warfare, permanent security, urbicide, social death –the Israeli state this time has dissolved any remaining vestige (if ever there was one) of moral unassailability and given other (liberal or illiberal) states who might have their own unfinished reckonings with communal adversaries the respectability of open season to do their worst." | Already in article |
| Shaw | January 2024 | International relations prof, Sociologist specialising in genocide | Journal of Genocide Research | "Likewise warning of the potential for genocide as a maximal end-state obscured the genocidal process that was already occurring, [...] Moreover, if the United Nations Genocide Convention was an inevitable reference point, the choice to hew close to a legal tick-box exercise not only allowed defenders of Israel's violence to argued that the criteria had not been met. It also sidelined the Convention's manifold defects, recognized in the field since its inception, and those of the subsequent jurisprudence, recently exposed in the case of Ukraine.", "It was therefore essential to recognize that in genocidal war, policies radicalize. Israel's initial genocidal thrust contained the potential for a greater genocide, which might turn the right's most ambitious ideas into reality." | Already in article |
| Semerdjian | January 2024 | History professor, Chair of Armenian genocide studies | Journal of Genocide Research | "Furthermore, as the civilian/combatant distinction has collapsed, and given the scale of civilian destruction, it appears the distinction between the targeted bombing promised by "humane war" and indiscriminate bombing has largely vanished. Since everything from taking shelter in hospitals or fleeing for safety is declared a form of human shielding, the entire civilian population has been transformed into a legal target. This too is the logic of genocide.", "Terms like "civil war," "conflict," and even "counterinsurgency" frequently serve as legal cover for genocide, and in its wake, form the repertoire of genocide denial.", "For many, the killing of Palestinians in Gaza is justifiable self-defense. In the wake of 7 October, America and European allies offered support for Israel's unrestrained "right to defense" for "permanent security" in the tradition of America's own War on Terror. The problem is, genocides are also premised on the right to security and self-defense against an existential threat." | Already in article |
| International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine | January 2024 | 100 international organisations | Common Dreams | "urging governments across the globe to formally support South Africa's International Court of Justice case against Israel, accusing the government of genocidal violence in Gaza.", | Already in article |
| Bishara | January 2024 | Politicial philosopher, director of the ACRPS | Al-Muntaqa, journal of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies | "The essay contends that Israel and its allies' claim of self-defence to justify their genocidal actions in Gaza and to marginalize moral judgements is a blatant lie.", "In this case, shared identity is a motive for rejecting Israel's monopolization of the conversation, its claim to speak in the name of the Jews while committing genocide, and its distortion of that identity with its criminal practices against the Palestinian people." | Includes specific responses Habermas' arguments. |
| Wiese | January 2024 | "research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of European Law, Public International Law and Public Law" | Stern | "but is usually very difficult to prove"; "The destruction of the group must be the sole aim of the perpetrator"; under international law, there is a right to self-defence | |
| Platt | January 2024 | social sciences professor with a focus on genocide research | Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Audio episode) | "Genocide really doesn't fit here/does not fit at all" (from title) | |
| Schabas | January 2024 | Professor of international law | WOZ Die Wochenzeitung | "I am fairly certain that South Africa will win on the interim measures - but not that it will win on the main issue in four or five years' time."; "I based my statement, which I made back in October, on the statements that Israel was essentially besieging Gaza and denying it food, medicine, drinking water and electricity. I said that this alone was enough to indicate a serious risk of genocide. In my view, that risk has become even greater." | Already in article via Courtroom news article |
| Herik | January 2024 | professor of international public law | Leiden University website | That is a claim that is very difficult to prove, because you have to prove that Israel is acting with the specific purpose of exterminating the Palestinians. | |
| Sfard | January 2024 | Human rights lawyer | The Guardian | "Sfard said he was stunned by the speed with which incitement to genocide and other extreme speech had been normalised in Israel.", "The gap between that and the freedom and impunity for those who advocate all kinds of things – ethnic cleansing, killing civilians, bombarding civilian areas, and even genocide – doesn't square up, and that's something for the authorities to explain." | Already in article |
| Cohen and Shany | January 2024 | International Law Professors:
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Just Security | The raising of even more serious charges – such as the commission of genocide, the "crime of crimes" – requires an even higher commitment to factual analysis, which should include all relevant facts, including those "inconvenient" to whoever is making such claims. Many of the allegations made in this regard, including those found in the recent South African application to the ICJ appear to fall short of this standard. Still, we do consider the South African application as potentially useful in drawing more attention to the positive obligations of the State of Israel to suppress incitement to genocide and to address potentially genocidal statements made in public by Israeli influencers and politicians. | |
| Walter | January 2024 | Professor of international law | Reputable online legal publication | "Although the high number of civilian deaths and the enormous material damage are horrific, they do not necessarily prove an intent to commit genocide. For example, the repeated calls for the civilian population to leave certain parts of the area or the observance of the obligation to warn and set a deadline before withdrawing protection from a civilian hospital because it is being used outside its humanitarian purpose to commit acts harmful to the enemy speak against such an intent." | |
| Muravchik | January 2024 | Political scientist | The Wall Street Journal | "Hamas, not Israel, is guilty of genocide." | |
| Boot | January 2024 | Military historian | The Washington Post | "But while it's easy to second-guess the actions of Israeli forces, there is no evidence that they have engaged in a deliberate campaign to 'destroy, in whole or in part,' the Palestinian people — which is what 'genocide' means in international law. Awful as the civilian deaths in Gaza have been, they still constitute less than 1 percent of the territory's population. If Israel, with all the firepower at its disposal, had been trying to commit mass murder, the death toll would have been higher by orders of magnitude.", "That's why the charge of genocide has been rejected not only by the United States but also by Canada, Britain and Germany, among others." | 1% of Gaza’s population is ~23,750 people, on 13 January the reported death toll was 23,843, and on 15 January it was reported as 24,100. And as per the determination of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia with regards to Srebrenica massacre, a majority of the population need not be killed for something to be determined to be a genocide. |
| Swazo | January 2024 | Professor of philosophy] | North South Journal of Peace and Global Studies | "Undoubtedly, the State of Israel is an Occupying Power and subject to the law of the Geneva Conventions in the manner of its treatment of the Palestinian people. In relation to international positive law (the Geneva Conventions, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, etc.) and the morality central to the jus gentium, the State of Israel is by no means to be excepted in the way it decides to conduct itself vis-à-vis the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories, including Gaza. The Palestinians throughout the Occupied Territories are entitled as a matter of jus gentium to the full protection the international community of nations can muster on those grounds. Thus, Louis Rene Beres (1989, 29) is entirely correct to remind that, the Genocide Convention, along with other "human rights 'regime'" treaties and declarations, "represents the end of the idea of absolute sovereignty concerning non-intervention when human rights are in grievous jeopardy." And, this certainly applies in the case of Israel's war being waged against the Palestinian people in Gaza (with spillover effects in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as the IDF supports settler Israelis in their hostile acts of dispossession and displacement of the Palestinians in those quarters)." | |
| Burke-White | February 2024 | Professor of international law | University of Pennsylvania website | It should be noted that genocide is an incredibly difficult crime to prove. Genocide refers to any of a series of acts – such as the killing or the transfer of children—undertaken with "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group." Historically, courts have struggled to prove the relevant intent, which is not just murder but a concerted policy to destroy a people as a whole. For South Africa to win this case, it will need to find and provide evidence that the Israeli government's intent was not merely to prevent attacks such as those of October 7 or to degrade the capability of Hamas, but rather to annihilate the Palestinian people as a whole. | |
| Falk | February 2024 | Professor of international law, and Chair of EuroMed-Monitor | Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor | "This pattern is quite extraordinary because the states supporting Israel, above all the United States, have claimed the high moral and legal ground for themselves and have long lectured the states of the Global South about the importance of the rule of law, human rights, and respect for international law. This is instead of urging compliance with international law and morality by both sides in the face of the most transparent genocide in all of human history. In the numerous pre-Gaza genocides, the existential horrors that occurred were largely known after the fact and through statistics and abstractions, occasionally vivified by the tales told by survivors. The events, although historically reconstructed, were not as immediately real as these events in Gaza with the daily reports from journalists on the scene for more than three months." | |
| Fassin | February 2024 | Anthropologist and sociologist | Journal of Genocide Research | "It is a similar exercise that I want to propose here about the arguments used by those who have championed the right of Israel to defend itself at whatever cost for Palestinian civilians and have attacked those who have alerted the world to the risk of a genocide being perpetrated in Gaza", "As the destruction of public infrastructures, including hospitals and schools, and the tally of civilian casualties, mostly children and women, increased in Gaza on a scale never seen before in Palestine, the qualification of the war crimes committed by Israel as possibly a genocide by scholars, lawyers, experts from international organizations and even governments has generated hostile reactions in Israel and among supporters of the Israeli politics of retaliation, mostly in Western countries.", "The critics of this qualification, many of them academics, maintained that a state created for a people victim of the quintessential genocide could not be suspected of committing a similar crime", "Alerting to the prospect of a genocide being perpetrated in Gaza is stigmatized as an unconscious desire to have a genocide perpetrated against the Jews." | Already in article |
| Illouz | February 2024 | Professor of sociology | The Forward | "The people who surround him —Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich — are more overtly fascist. They believe in violence. Their camp murdered Yitzhak Rabin. They hold and defend Jewish supremacist views. Their declarations after Oct. 7 amounted to calls to genocide (even though I do not think Israel is committing genocide)." | Already in article |
| Trachtenberg | February 2024 | Historian, specialising in Jewish History | The New Yorker | "Trachtenberg testified to a consensus opinion among historians of genocide that what is happening in Gaza can indeed be called a genocide, largely because the intent to cause death on a massive scale has been so clear in the statements of Israeli officials. "We are watching the genocide unfold as we speak," he said. "We are in this incredibly unique position where we can intervene to stop it, using the mechanisms of international law that are available to us."" | Already in article |
| Human Rights Watch | February 2024 | International human rights NGO | Human Rights Watch website | "The Israeli government is starving Gaza's 2.3 million Palestinians, putting them in even more peril than before the World Court's binding order", "The Israeli government has simply ignored the court's ruling, and in some ways even intensified its repression, including further blocking lifesaving aid" | Already in article |
| Amnesty International | February 2024 | International human rights NGO | Amnesty International website | "One month after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered “immediate and effective measures” to protect Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip from the risk of genocide by ensuring sufficient humanitarian assistance and enabling basic services, Israel has failed to take even the bare minimum steps to comply, Amnesty International said today." | Already in article |
| Fakhri | February 2024 | Professor of law, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food | The Guardian | "Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes 'a situation of genocide'", "In my view as a UN human rights expert, this is now a situation of genocide." | Already in article |
| Mockaitis | February 2024 | Historian | The Hill | "The IDF campaign has left much of Gaza in ruins, displacing people and creating a massive refugee and humanitarian crisis. However, the use of excessive force stems from an aversion to [Israeli military] casualties, not genocidal intent. If the massive assault on Gaza is not genocide, it may constitute a war crime, although that will be hard to prove. | |
| El-Affendi | February 2024 | Professor of politics, Dean of Social Sciences | Al Jazeera | "Increasing partisanship in Genocide Studies threatens the field itself","An endless stream of interventions in the media accompanied and followed these initiatives, exhibiting mounting polarisation and politicization","This public split among scholars prompted the Journal of Genocide Research, the leading and oldest periodical in the field, to organise a forum on the topic 'Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies'. It invited a small number of leading figures in the field","Overall, in the forum, there was uneven worry about the health of the field, but near consensus that what Israel is doing in Gaza is certainly "genocidal" if not outright genocide","I also stand by my point that the increasing polarisation and partisanship in the field, together with the 'major democracies' simultaneously assuming the role of participants and deniers, is a very serious blow to the whole endeavour of genocide prevention." | |
| Posen | February 2023 | Political scientist and security analyst | Foreign Policy | "One answer is simple. When war is fought among civilians, civilians are killed.", "Western militaries, including the IDF, try to live by these laws, though the law of armed conflict does not proscribe them from waging war. They try to follow these rules in part because they reflect the values of the societies that they serve and in part because of an expectation of reciprocity, but also because pragmatically, they know that lots of civilian casualties can become a political liability at home and abroad. Hamas spends the lives of Palestinian civilians as ammunition in an information war." | |
| Charny | March 2024 | genocide scholar | Genocide Watch | "Israel is fighting back legitimately in Self-Defense in Response and in Self-Defense against Future Genocidal Attacks that Employ Citizens as Human Shields. The Geneva Conventions specifically outlaw use of human shields and justify fighting back in response. Self-Defense does not include genocidal intent." | |
| Giroux | March 2024 | Scholar and culture critic | Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review | "While the International Court of Justice judgment should be welcomed, it is hard to imagine why there isn't an immediate call for a cease-fire and a full-fledged acknowledgment of Israel's committed war crimes and acts of genocide.", "Higher education may be one of the few sites left where prominent issues such as the genocidal war on Gaza can be analysed, engaged, and subject to the rigours of history, a comprehensive analysis, and relevant evidence." | |
| Scholars of Middle East Studies | March 2024 | Middle East Studies Association | Al Jazeera | "accelerating scale of genocidal violence being inflicted on the Palestinian population of Gaza" | Already in article |
| Segal & Daniele | March 2024 | Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Professor of law, specialising in armed conflict, humanitarian, and international law | Journal of Genocide Research | "Finkel reasonably concluded that it was "hard to imagine a more actionable template to destroy a national group," and that the "combination of official statements denying Ukraine and Ukrainians the right to exist, and mounting evidence of deliberate, large-scale targeting of Ukrainian civilians" left "little room for doubt" that “the threshold from war crimes to genocide" was crossed.", "Applying the same standard indicated by Finkel to the Israeli mainstream political and media discourse about Palestinians, the threshold from war crimes to genocide has been crossed before 7 October. In May 2023, a clear template to destroy a national group was proposed by Jeffrey Camras in an article in the Times of Israel. Camras proposed that "in order to right a wrong, in order to make peace and move forward, Palestine must be obliterated."", "Nonetheless, no Holocaust scholar viewed this situation in the way Finkel saw Russia's attack on Ukraine. Most Holocaust scholars, in fact, never even mentioned the large body of evidence of Israeli international crimes in the fifty-six years of Israeli occupation.", "The very different ways in which Holocaust scholars, on the one hand, and those working in Genocide Studies, on the other, have responded to the unfolding mass violence in Israel and Palestine after 7 October point to an unprecedented crisis in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. We argue that the crisis stems from the significant evidence for genocide in Israel’s attack on Gaza, which has exposed the exceptional status accorded to Israel as a foundational element in the field, that is, the idea that Israel, the state of Holocaust survivors, can never perpetrate genocide." | Already in article |
| Feldmann | March 2024 | Professor of international law | Time | "Israel's efforts to defend itself against Hamas, even if found to involve killing disproportionate number of civilians, do not turn Israel into a genocidal actor comparable to the Nazis or the Hutu regime in Rwanda. The genocide charge depends on intent. And Israel, as a state, is not fighting the Gaza War with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people.", "These relevant facts matter for putting the genocide charge into the context of potential antisemitism. Neither South Africa nor other states have brought a genocide case against China for its conduct in Tibet or Xinjiang, or against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. There is something specifically noteworthy about leveling the charge at the Jewish state—something intertwined with the new narrative of the Jews as archetypal oppressors rather than archetypal victims. Call it the genocide sleight of hand: if the Jews are depicted as genocidal—if Israel becomes the very archetype of a genocidal state—then Jews are much less likely to be conceived as a historically oppressed people engaged in self-defense." | |
| Pfeifer/Weipert-Fenner/Williams | March 2024 | Professor and scientific staff | blog of peace research institute | "Whether the ICJ will classify Israeli violence as genocide cannot be answered at this point in time." | |
| Albanese | March 2024 | Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory | France 24 | "The UN expert who concluded Israel was committing acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip" | Already in article |
| 1,346 academics | March 2024 | (some relevant not all) | Academics 4 Peace | "Israel's assault on Gaza appears to include both acts and intent stated in the definition of genocide.", "We repeat, genocide is plausible." | |
| Donoghue | April 2024 | President of the ICJ during the hearing on the SA case | BBC News | "The court decided that the Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide and that South Africa had the right to present that claim in the court. It then looked at the facts as well. But it did not decide – and this is something where I'm correcting what's often said in the media – it didn't decide that the claim of genocide was plausible. It did emphasize in the order that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide. But the shorthand that often appears, which is that there's a plausible case of genocide, isn't what the court decided." | |
| Eames | April 2024 | Near and Middle East scholar | Spectrum | "On April 1, 2024, Israel's siege on Gaza reached day number one-hundred and seventy-seven. How much further will we allow this genocide to go?" | |
| Walzer | April 2024 | Professor/well known philosopher and political scientist | Die Zeit | "No. There is no genocidal intent on the Israeli side. Some members of the Israeli government want to drive the Palestinians out of Gaza and relocate them. But fortunately, they are not the decisive force in government." | |
| Bauer | April 2004 | Genocide scholar | Kan 11 | "Of course this is not a genocide. It is absolutely clear. But it doesn't mean that I justify what Israel does in Gaza. I think the killing that we cause there is what is called in academic language mass atrocities crimes. But obviously all comparisons to genocide are baseless." | |
| Whyte | April 2024 | Professor of philosophy, and political theorist (se also) | Journal of Genocide Research | "Israel's conduct in Gaza, and the US's active legal support for it, forces us to grapple with the seemingly unthinkable: a perfectly legal genocide, that is a genocide legitimized via a permissive interpretation of IHL.", "By turning to Gaza, I show that Israel has mobilized a deeply permissive account of IHL to justify its use of starvation as a tool of genocide.", "Notably absent from Power's statement was the stance for which she became famous: moral condemnation of a US administration that responds to genocide by rendering "the bloodshed two sided and inevitable, not genocidal."" | |
| McDoom | April 2024 | Professor of comparative politics | Journal of Genocide Research | "while there exists widespread consensus within the HGS community that Hamas' civilian-targeted violence should be condemned, this is not the case in respect of the Israeli government's violence. Many Holocaust and Genocide Studies (HGS) scholars have remained steadfastly silent or else uncritical of the Israeli government despite the rapidly-mounting civilian death toll", "a section of the HGS community chose not to acknowledge this possibility when voicing their views – as genocide experts – on the violence. To the contrary. Some charged Hamas with genocide against Israel. Some published further opinion to deny the Israeli government's actions constituted genocide","Their aim appeared to be to defend Israel rather than offer an impartial expert assessment of the violence", "An investigation into bias in scholarly opinion would do well to query the motivation to venture an opinion in the first place. A number of HGS centres issued official statements following the 7 October attack. The use of an institution's name and authority carries with it the implication that there is some connection either to the Holocaust or genocide. Yet the Holocaust comparison is problematic. Not simply because it belies the claim that the Holocaust was a unique event that some of the same HGS scholars forcefully make. But because the Germans were not an occupied and oppressed people. And Gaza is not a powerful, expansionary state. To the contrary.", "The bias exhibited by a section of the HGS community is not only damaging for the field's reputation, it is also self-sabotaging. Many will perceive prosemitic bias in the commentary and dismiss it as such." | |
| Goldmann | April 2024 | Professor of international law | Junge Welt | "The law professor does not expect a clear conviction of Israel in the South Africa-Israel case, nor a clear dismissal of the lawsuit." "According to Article II of the Convention, a breach occurs when an actor implements the intention to destroy a group of people in whole or in part by killing, injuring or restricting the living conditions of said group. In the case of Israel, there is no "smoking gun" that clearly proves such an intention, explained Goldmann. Statements by Israeli politicians in the media are "non-authoritative sources"" | |
| Talmon | April 2024 | Professor of international law | Süddeutsche Zeitung | "This is clearly a war crime. But not genocide." | |
| Patel and Ben Imran | April 2024 | 1: Legal researcher, reader in International law (holds LLM); 2: Reader in International law (holds LLM) |
Al Jazeera | "Last month, our organisation, Law for Palestine, made the first in a series of submissions to the ICC, characterising the crime of genocide committed by Israeli leaders against the Palestinian people. The 200-page document, drafted by 30 lawyers and legal researchers from across the world and reviewed by more than 15 experts, makes a compelling case for the genocidal intent as well as for the prosecutorial policy that the court has followed in other cases.", "We also refer to the database we have put together of more than 500 instances of Israeli incitement to genocide as additional proof. While the statements form a substantial part of the intent component of the crime of genocide, the submission goes beyond and highlights the various actions and official policies that additionally prove intent." | |
| Sassoli and Diggelmann | May 2024 | International Law Professors: | SRF | "«Certain statements by Israeli politicians were genocidal». There was talk of extermination. «But the actions of the Israeli army are, in my opinion, directed against Hamas and not against the entire population»"; "He does not believe that the International Court of Justice will find a generational[sic]intent to commit genocide in the South Africa v. Israel case." | |
| Pappé | May 2024 | Historian, specialising in Israel-Palestine | Al Jazeera | "What we see now are massacres which are part of the genocidal impulse, namely to kill people in order to downsize the number of people living in Gaza" | Already in article |
| Hartwig and Müller | May 2024 | Scholars of international law: | digital news partnering with big newspapers | "I ultimately do not see sufficient grounds for genocide if one takes the legal term seriously."; "Even if individual actions by the Israeli armed forces can be described as war crimes, they do not [necessarily - added by me] at the same time constitute genocide." | |
| Sultany | May 2024 | Reader in Public law | Journal of Genocide Research | "Legal discourse needs to match the reality of horror to maintain its relevance. Although legal scholars and commentators were slow to recognize the severity and urgency of the situation, this article sought to show that there is an emerging consensus that Israel's actions in Gaza are not another instance of armed conflict but instead amount to genocide. This genocide is committed against an integral component of the Palestinian people, a protected group under the Genocide Convention. The preceding discussion shows that obstacles facing a legal determination of genocide (namely, assessing the credibility of military logic and the existence of genocidal intent) are not insurmountable. The emerging consensus described here may not be overwhelming and will have to face opposition and potential judicial disagreement. Yet an overwhelming body of evidence supports it and a consistency in the application of standards requires it." | |
| Jamshidi | May 2024 | Professor of law | Journal of Genocide Research | "That application was preceded by weeks of public debate and insistence by Palestinians and others – including genocide scholars – that Israel was either already committing genocide against the residents of Gaza or risked committing genocide [...] The law of genocide often tells us to disregard what our eyes leave little doubt is happening. This creates a profound disconnect between the legal definition of genocide and popular and historical experiences and understandings of the term. By situating the catastrophe in Gaza both within Israel's long history of eliminationist violence towards Palestinians and fine-tuned legal arguments, South Africa has brought the law into line with the historical reality and lived-experiences of the victims of genocide, forcing a dialectical conversation between two, often, opposing planes – the law on genocide and the reality of genocide." | |
| Illouz | May 2024 | Professor of sociology | Haaretz | "A fierce military response facing unprecedented challenges in the history of warfare – because of a highly densely populated urban area, an underground city built below a civilian population – has become in the eyes of many a bona fide case of genocide", "Jews, Zionists and moderate people from all political parties and religions have watched the campus protests unfold in amazement, unable to believe the unselfconscious double standards, the baselessness of the historical parallels", "these protests give me no choice but to ask myself if, after all, something like the phantasmagoric irrationality of antisemitism is at work here." | Not in the article |
| Di-Capua | May 2024 | Professor of history, focusing on intellectual history and the modern Arab world | Journal of Genocide Research | "Conditions for the emergence of a Jewish genocidal mindset in Israel evolved gradually since the 1970s.", "Positioned at the core of rural Palestinian life, these settlements serve as intellectual incubators and experimental laboratories of genocidal politics, chief of which is ethnic cleansing.", "By and large, though the IDF avoids drafting the most radical and violent members of Hardal, given the growing size of this demographic within the army, including among the officers’ corps and the growing number of soldiers who sympathize or directly belong to these genocidal circles especially on the field level, their influence is growing.", "A decade later, and in the context of the current war in Gaza, the rhetoric of a genocidal Jewish Holy War is being pushed into the mainstream like never before and is featured in many of its ground operations, especially among the ranks of the more popular infantry and armoured divisions." | |
| Maison | May 2024 | Professor of international law | Orient XXI | "S'agissant de Gaza, la qualification de génocide peut également être sérieusement envisagée au regard, notamment, de la systématicité des attaques, de leur sens, et de leur inscription dans une offensive plus large contre la population civile." [With regard to Gaza, the qualification of genocide can also be seriously considered in view, in particular, of the systematic nature of the attacks, their meaning, and their inclusion in a broader offensive against the civilian population.], "C'est à ce moment qu’un élément inédit a été avancé en faveur d'Israël : une interview de l'ancienne présidente de la Cour internationale de justice, Joan Donoghue, affirmant que la juridiction n’aurait pas reconnu une affaire plausible de génocide (a « plausible case of genocide »). Rappelons ici que, dans son ordonnance du 26 janvier 2024, la cour affirme que le droit des Palestiniens d'être protégés contre les actes de génocide est plausible (§§ 36, 54), et qu'il existe une urgence, c'est à dire un « risque réel et imminent » de préjudice irréparable causé aux droits revendiqués (§ 61, 74). Il s'agit bien d'un risque de génocide, même si la cour n'emploie pas la formule « affaire plausible de génocide ». Les médias se sont précipités sur les propos ambigus de Joan Donoghue pour minimiser le sens de l'ordonnance et réfuter l'emploi du terme génocide." [It was at this point that a new element was put forward in Israel's favour: an interview with the former President of the International Court of Justice, Joan Donoghue, stating that the court would not have recognised a plausible case of genocide. Let us recall here that, in its order of 26 January 2024, the court affirms that the right of Palestinians to be protected against acts of genocide is plausible (§§ 36, 54), and that there is an emergency, that is to say a "real and imminent risk" of irreparable harm caused to the rights claimed (§§ 61, 74). This is indeed a risk of genocide, even if the court does not use the phrase "plausible case of genocide". The media rushed to seize on Joan Donoghue's ambiguous remarks to minimize the meaning of the order and refute the use of the term genocide.] | |
| Lévy | May 2024 | Philosopher | France Info | "Il n'y a pas de génocide à Gaza, il n'y a pas de massacre délibéré des populations civiles" [There is no genocide in Gaza, there is no deliberate massacre of civilian populations.] | |
| Khan | June 2024 | Professor of international law | ZDF | "The defining element is above all the intent to destroy, which, however, can currently hardly be proven by the Israeli leadership" | |
| 758 Scholars of the Middle East | June 2024 | Brookings Institution | "A majority of Middle East scholars see Israeli motives in Gaza to be about forcing Palestinians out [57%]", "A third of scholars see Israel's military actions in Gaza as 'genocide' [34%]", 41% see it as "major war crimes akin to genocide". | Already in article | |
| Neier | June 2024 | Human rights activist | The New York Review | "Hamas has embedded itself in the civilian population of Gaza, and its extensive network of tunnels provides its combatants the ability to move around quickly. Even if Israel's bombers were intent on minimizing harm to civilians, they would have had difficulty doing so in their effort to destroy Hamas. And yet, even believing this, I am now persuaded that Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. What has changed my mind is its sustained policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance into the territory." | Comments about how these actions are "indicative of genocide" are already in article attributed to Neier via this CNN interview |
| Akram | June 2024 | LAW clinical professor of law and director of LAW's International Human Rights Clinic | Boston University Today & University Network for Human Rights | Q:"For all of the condemnation of Israel's actions, there is also strong opposition to Israel's actions being labeled a genocide. Where does that pushback come from?".
A:"The opposition is political, as there is consensus amongst the international human rights legal community, many other legal and political experts, including many Holocaust scholars, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza." |
Already in article |
| Ali | June 2024 | Head of international law department at Bindmans LLP | Middle East Monitor | "He emphasised that, despite Israel's own repetition of genocidal intent, "Western leaders are guilty of viewing Palestine and Israel through the prejudiced prism of a merciless Palestinian terrorists against the gentle Jewish victims who are desperately maintaining the only democracy in the Middle East."" | Also includes new comments from Albanese and Sultany |
| Jacquet | June 2024 | Professor of diplomacy and geopolitics | Anadolu Agency | ""Given the extent of the war crimes and the military operations carried out by the Israeli army on the ground, this situation can be considered genocide according to a growing number of international lawyers," Jacquet said." | |
| Ak | June 2024 | Professor of political science | Journal of Humanity, Peace and Justice | "this research will also contribute to the related field of the social sciences as being the first clear example of genocide acts perpetuated by Israel so far in one of the whole Palestine territory like the Gaza Strip.", "At first, it will not be wrong to claim that the Palestinian cause regarding recent Israeli Gaza assaults is a trickling genocide, slow but relentless." | |
| McAlister | June 2024 | Professor of history | Canadian Foreign Policy Journal | "The genocide in Gaza is an opportunity for Canada to change that. A majority of Canadians may want to see a ceasefire in Gaza, but are they or their political representatives prepared to condemn the genocide?" | |
| Choonara | June 2024 | Professor of political economy | International Socialism | "US president Joe Biden, along with British foreign secretary David Cameron, were also isolated in their backing for Israel's genocidal offensive in Rafah." | |
| Suslovic et al. | June 2024 | Reader in social welfare; Professor of social work; Professor of social work; Professor of social work; Professor of social work; Organizer; Professor of social work | Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work | "Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed Israel's unrelenting mass assault against the people of Gaza, killing more than 37,000 Palestinians. The response to this genocide in most sectors of professional society has largely been one of denial and suppression of solidarity with Palestine, unveiling extremes of the longstanding Palestine exception in progressive politics. This article contextualizes the social work profession's response to Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinian people after October 7, 2023, including responses from schools of social work, social work agencies and organizations, and academic journals." | |
| Ballantyne and Beddoe | June 2024 | Professor of social welfare; Professor of social work | Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work | "Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that the most-read article published in 2023 was a special editorial on Justice for Palestine included in issue four (Ballantyne et al., 2023). This was a statement by editorial collective members on the situation in Palestine. In the context of the genocide, we were all witnessing on our television screens and the silence of the IFSW on this matter, we felt compelled to comment. Since that editorial was published in December 2023, the horrifying death toll has not stopped climbing, and despite the statements made by the International Criminal Court to halt the ground invasion of Rafah, Israel continues its assault on Gaza and the West Bank unabated. The editorial collective continues to express our utmost solidarity with the Palestinian people and our deep concern for the future prospects of an international rules-based order that respects all peoples' human rights, including the right to self-determination." | |
| Green | June 2024 | Professor of Law and Globalisation | State Crime Journal | "Just two months after this special issue was finalized Israel launched its catastrophic, genocidal assault on Gaza.", "As this timely and crucially important volume demonstrates Israel's genocide of the Palestinians is bound both to the logic of settler colonialism and to the necessity of its abolition.", "What we are witnessing now, not only in Gaza but across historic Palestine is the denouement in Israel's genocide of the indigenous Palestinians…a second Nakba and as Knesset member Arial Kallner demanded one that dwarfs the Nakba of 1948." |
Scholarly sources on Israeli fears of imminent Arab attack in May 1967[edit]
Golan, G. (2006). The Soviet Union and the Outbreak of the June 1967 Six-Day War. Journal of Cold War Studies, 8(1), 3–19. MIT Press.
"Egypt had secretly devised plans to attack Israel on 27 May. On the basis of Israeli intelligence, the United States informed the Soviet Union about the Egyptian plans while Badran was still in Moscow."
Glickman, G. (2017). Rewriting the Six-Day War. Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep04552
Vegan416 (talk) 08:08, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
References to SJP calling for the ending of Israel[edit]
- The SJP “points of unity” state that "It is committed to ending Israel’s occupation and colonization of all Arab lands", and some SJP members and chapters explicitly refer to the Israeli occupation as having started in 1948, when Israel was founded. In July 2018, Tulane’s SJP chapter wrote that “Israel’s occupation [of Palestinians land] began seventy years ago”. In May of 2018, SJP at DePaul University distributed fliers claiming that Israel has engaged in “70 years of occupation.
- Also: "it is an ideological fantasy to really believe that progress is possible so long as the state of Israel exists [..] The goal of Palestinian resistance is not to establish ‘love’ with those who are responsible for the suffering of the Palestinian people; it is to completely dismantle those forces at play." https://theaggie.org/2018/07/06/students-for-justice-in-palestine-kill-and-expect-love/ Also: "We identify the establishment of the state of Israel as an ongoing project of settler-colonialism that will be stopped only through Palestinian national liberation." https://nycsjp.wordpress.com/points-of-unity/:
Vegan416 (talk) 08:12, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
UNZ Review[edit]
In the years 2015-2017 Finkelstein published at the Unz Review[10]. This site was later described as a "white-nationalist" site by the SPLC[11] and Mother Jones, and "a website that has published Holocaust denialism" by CNN. This site is owned by Ron Unz, whom The Guardian later called a "holocaust denier"[12]. In 2014, in the preface to one of his books Finkelstein thanked Ron Unz for his "friendship and support".[13]
- The Guardian: "carries columns from avowed neo-Nazis and racists... a one-stop shop for hate from many different vantage points"
- Seattle Times: "a far-right website criticized by the Anti-Defamation League as hosting racist and antisemitic content"
- Rolling Stone: "antisemitic blog"
- Anti-Defamation League: "a fringe platform that regularly hosts bigoted content"
- CNN: "a website that has published Holocaust denialism and columns in support of White nationalism"
- Southern Poverty Law Center: "white nationalist publication"
- Mother Jones: "white nationalist publication"
- Kansas City Star: "a website that includes white nationalist and anti-Semitic content"
- New York Times: "far-right"
https://books.google.co.il/books?id=BUTREAAAQBAJ&pg=PT108#v=onepage&q&f=false
Einstein[edit]
https://m.jpost.com/j-spot/einsteins-1948-letter-praising-jewish-resilience-on-sale-598276
Mohamed Hassanein Heikal claimed that in 1952 when he met Einstein, he repeated his view that Begin was like a Nazi, but stressed that "Ben-Gurion is different than Begin" and that Begin doesn't embody "the Jews or the concept of Israel".[14]
AS and AZ[edit]
https://www.google.co.il/books/edition/Nazis_Islamic_Antisemitism_and_the_Middl/XB3EEAAAQBAJ
Opinions[edit]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi_Tharoor%27s_Oxford_Union_speech
References[edit]
- ^ If the article is divided to section by sub-headers then the lead is the first section. Otherwise the lead is the first 4 paragraphs (which is the recommended maximum length of leads in Wikipedia, and the actual length of the current Zionism article lead in Wikipedia).
- ^ a b c d e f Find it among the sources in Encyclopedia.com link
- ^ Text of first paragraph: An international movement for the establishment of a Jewish homeland, formally founded in1987 although initiated in the 1880s. The word which was coined in 1890 by Nathan Birnbaum. is derived from "Zion," one of hills of ancient Jerusalem, in the Bible sometimes applied to Jerusalem itself.
- ^ Text of the first paragraph: Zionism, in its modern form, developed from a late nineteenth-century belief in the need to establish an autonomous Jewish homeland in Palestine. Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), a Hungarian journalist who lived in Vienna, was eventually persuaded by the events of the Dreyfus case in France and the "pogroms" (i.e. the organized massacre of Jews in Russia) to conclude in his book Der Judenstaat that the only way the Jewish people could practice their religion and culture in safety was by having their own nation-state. In 1897, at the First World Zionist Congress in Basel, Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) insisted that this had to be re-created in Palestine, even though there had been no significant Jewish settlement there after the conquest of Jerusalem in CE 70.
- ^ Text of first paragraph: The warm affection and concern that Jews diaspora feel for the State of Israel is commonly called Zionism. Similarly, for the Jews living Israel, the term connotes the bond that links to Jewry abroad. The great majority of Jews today experience Zionism in this sense, as an essential ingredient of being Jewish. For the majority in Israel and the diaspora who are not orthodox, Jewish identity is in large part formed by the belief that the state of Israel is the Jewish state, in the sense of belonging to the Jewish people.
- ^ Don't confuse with the 1st edition of this encyclopedia (also in Encyclopedia.com) that was published in 1968, and therefore not included here.
- ^ The word appears, but doesn't seem to refer to Zionism, but rather to its environment: "Since its inception in the nineteenth century, Zionism has been an ideologically multifaceted and internally contentious movement, and its fortunes have changed in complex relation with European anti-Semitism and with colonialism beyond Europe’s borders."
- ^ Text of first paragraph: From its emergence as a coherent political project at the very end of the 19th century, Zionism sought to unify and mobilize Jews around a nationalistic program whose chief goal was the creation in Palestine of an independent Jewish state in which most of the world's Jews would eventually settle. Like other nationalist movements, however, Zionism has never been monolithic but has encompassed a range of distinct political and ideological currents and factions that have often disagreed, sometimes bitterly, over how to pursue Zionism's aims; the social, economic, and cultural character of the projected Jewish state; relations with Palestine's indigenous Arab population; and much else.
- ^ Text of first paragraph: Zionism holds that Jews constitute a people and a nation. As a political movement, it supports the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people. Zionism began in the late 19th century, arising out of the general movement of nationalism and increased anti-Semitism. It soon became a well-organized and well-funded settlement movement focused on Palestine, which many Jews believe was the ancient homeland granted them by God. Zionism eventually contributed directly to the formation of the State of Israel and continued to influence the politics of Israeli Jews for the rest of the 20th century.
- ^ E. Bevensee and A. R. Ross, "The Alt-Right and Global Information Warfare," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Seattle, WA, USA, 2018, pp. 4393-4402, doi: 10.1109/BigData.2018.8622270.
- ^ Gais, Hannah (2021-01-19). "Meet the White Nationalist Organizer Who Spewed Hate Against Lawmakers". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ Pilkington, Ed (2023-06-06). "Harvard affirmative action challenge partly based on Holocaust denier's work". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ Finkelstein, Norman G. (2014-04-24). Old Wine, Broken Bottle: Ari Shavit's Promised Land. OR Books. ISBN 978-1-939293-47-3.
- ^ Jerome, Fred (2009). Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East. Macmillan. pp. 205–206. ISBN 978-1-4668-2429-4.