Is It Genocide?
Omer Bartov
Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Brown University

I’m a genocide scholar. I know it when I see it.

Genocide is the only term that fits

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Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel

'You must remember what Amalek has done to you', says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.

(Biblical reference: attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants...

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Amos Goldberg
Professor of Holocaust History
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

What is happening in Gaza is a genocide because Gaza does not exist anymore

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Children sing about Gaza on Israeli State TV

Within a year we will eliminate them all

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Stephen Kapos
Holocaust Survivor

We Jews who survived all this pain, killings, humiliation and destruction are against the use of the memory of the Holocaust by the Government of Israel as cover and justification for the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank

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Avigdor Lieberman
Former Foreign Minister of Israel

No electricity, no crossings, no water, no fuel and no goods, complete disconnection

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Daniel Blatman
Head, Institute for Contemporary Jewry
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Although what is happening in Gaza is not Auschwitz, it is of the same family - a crime of genocide

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Israel Katz
Foreign Minister of Israel

All the civilian population in [G]aza is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.

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Médecins Sans Frontières

An unprecedented humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Gaza. MSF is clear: We are witnessing Israel commit genocide

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Avi Dichter
Agriculture Minister

We are now rolling out the Nakba 2023.

The only arrangement that needs to be made with Gaza is to stop all transfers of humanitarian aid, equipment, fuel, electricity and water.

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Human Rights Watch

The pattern of conduct by Israeli forces may amount to genocide under international law.

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Yoav Gallant
Former Defense Minister of Israel

We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.

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International Association of Genocide Scholars

We are gravely concerned that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide

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Nissim Vaturi
Deputy Speaker of the Knesset

Gaza must be burned … There are no innocents there.

Eliminate all adult men in Gaza … erase the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip

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Itamar Ben Gvir
Minister of National Security

“We should not negotiate with those who kill our soldiers. They should be crushed to pieces, starved to death, and not resuscitated with humanitarian aid that gives them oxygen,”

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William Schabas
Professor of Human Rights Law
Leiden Law School

A strong case that Israel's response constitutes the crime of genocide

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Daniella Weiss
'Godmother' of the Settler Movement

No Arab will remain in Gaza

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Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies

The Lemkin Institute believes that Israel’s retaliation against Palestinians amounts not only to war crimes and crimes against humanity, but also to genocide

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Moshe Feiglin
Former Member of the Knesset

As Hitler said 'I can't live if one Jew is left,' we can't live here if one 'Islamo‑Nazi' remains in Gaza

Every child in Gaza is the enemy. We need to occupy Gaza and settle it, and not a single Gazan child will be left there.

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Genocide Watch

Both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide

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Bezalel Smotrich
Finance Minister of Israel

We are dismantling Gaza, leaving it in ruins with unprecedented destruction, and the world still hasn’t stopped us

We conquer, cleanse, and stay... On the way, we annihilate everything that still remains.….We're breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble, total unprecedented destruction.

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Alex de Waal
Executive Director, World Peace Foundation

The question of whether there is or is not genocide is secondary to the question of whether Israel and other states that are party to the Genocide Convention are fulfilling their obligations to prevent genocide. They are not doing so.

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Amichai Eliyahu
Heritage Minister of Israeli

Using nuclear weapons was 'one way' … they can go to Ireland or deserts … there are no uninvolved civilians in Gaza.

The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out. Thank God, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing this population that has been educated on 'Mein Kampf'

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Dov Waxman
Chair of Israel Studies
UCLA

I've written about why I've changed my position from initially rejecting the genocide charge against Israel to now concluding that the Israeli government is guilty of committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

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Eyal Berkovic
New Show Host

Gaza should be wiped out

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Raz Segal
Genocide Researcher at Stockton University

Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn't consider it genocide? No.

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Rabbi Ronen Shaulov
Rabbi

All of Gaza and every child in Gaza should starve to death

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David Grossman
Israel's most celebrated novelist

For many years, I refused to use that term: genocide. But now, after the images I have seen and after talking to people who were there, I can’t help using it

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Dov Lior
Rabbi, Settler Leader

Allow soldiers to kill civilians if that's what's needed for the safety of Israel and, if necessary, destroy Gaza entirely.

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Amiram Levin
Former Deputy director of the Mossad

You should call a child by his name - giving an order to shoot at hungry children and parents who are looking for a piece of bread is a crime. That's genocide, and this is what we are doing there

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Ariel Zilber
Singer Songwriter

The fire (fire!) in Gaza will not be extinguished... The fire (fire!) will consume Gaza... The smoke will darken Khan Yunis. Europe demands: 'Stop', it's a sign that we should continue

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B'Tselem

An examination of Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes ... leads to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

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John Swinney
Prime Minister of Scotland

It's quite clear that there is a genocide in Palestine, it can't be disputed

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Jeremy Ben-Ami
President, J Street

Until now, I have tried to deflect and defend when challenged to call this genocide. I have, however, been persuaded rationally by legal and scholarly arguments that international courts will one day find that Israel has broken the international genocide convention.

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Physicians for Human Rights-Israel

This report documents the Israeli assault for what it is: a deliberate, cumulative, and ongoing dismantling of Gaza’s healthcare system - and of the population’s ability to survive. Its meaning: genocide

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Uğur Ümit Üngör
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies

There are certainly still scientists who say it is not genocide. But I don’t know them

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Shmuel Lederman
Genocide scholar
Open University of Israel

The continued destruction of Gaza made the turn from harsh criticism of the crimes Israel is committing in Gaza and warnings that we are getting close to that place, to the perception that the cumulative effect of what Israel is doing in Gaza is genocide in every sense

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Melanie O'Brien
President
International Association of Genocide Scholars

It is without a doubt that we are witnessing a genocide now in Gaza, and state parties to the Convention are failing in their obligation to prevent and punish it

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Lee Mordechai
Historian
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The enormous amount of evidence I have seen… has been enough for me to believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza

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