Category Archives: Israel Hamas War 2023

What is Genocide? Did Israel Commit Genocide in Gaza?

Israel has gone too far in its legitimate response to the Hamas genocide, and it should restrain itself from reaching a genocidal peak  Israel W. Charny Executive Director Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Jerusalem; Founder and Past President International Association of Genocide Scholars; Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Genocide  Something insane has happened in the world’s

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Gaza Fight is Humanly and Legally Just but Deserves Ceasefire If Hostages Freed

Israel W. Charny (February 2, 2024). Gaza Fight is Humanly and Legally Just but Deserves Ceasefire If Hostages Freed. Times of Israel. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/gaza-fight-is-humanly-and-legally-just-but-deserves-ceasefire-if-hostages-freed/ GAZA FIGHT IS HUMANLY AND LEGALLY JUST BUT DESERVES CEASEFIRE IF HOSTAGES FREED A British sociologist-political scientist, has published a scathing article in the Journal of Genocide Research (JGR) accusing Israel of

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New York Times Bret Stephens Decries Genocide Charges Against Israel As Immoral

Stephens, Bret (January 18, 2024). The Genocide Charge Against Israel Is a Moral Obscenity. New York Times (excerpt) In recent decades, as many as three million people perished in a famine in North Korea that was mainly government-induced. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were gassed, bombed, starved or tortured to death by the Assad regime,

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Reports from the Israel-Gaza War Describe Extreme Violence and Cruelty

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Defines the Hamas Attack of Israel on October 7 as “Serious International Crimes”  The prosecutor, Karim Khan, of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called the attacks against Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023 “some of the most serious international crimes that shock the conscience of humanity, crimes which the ICC

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