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A growing number of the world’s leading genocide scholars believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, according to an investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC.

The paper interviewed seven renowned genocide researchers* from six countries - including Israel - all of whom described the Israeli campaign in Gaza as genocidal. Many said their peers in the field share this assessment.

“Contrary to public opinion, leading genocide researchers are surprisingly unanimous: the Netanyahu government, they say, is in that process - according to the majority, even in its final stages,” the investigation concluded. “That is why most researchers no longer speak only of 'genocidal violence', but of 'genocide'.”

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

According to the experts in the article, it’s determining the intent through observation of action that causes identification to be a spectrum, rather than pass/fail.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean, it should be immediately apparent to anyone who has been paying attention.

This doctor absolutely fucking nails it:

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20241029-us-doctor-claims-israeli-snipers-target-child-in-gaza-no-child-gets-shot-twice-by-mistakea

"The doctor went on to claim that Israeli snipers are deliberately shooting children in Gaza, citing his observation of two children who were shot twice. "No child gets shot twice by mistake," he said."

Here's the base problem... Israelis don't see Palestinians as innocent. They've said this repeatedly:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/israel-posts-video-saying-are-no-innocent-civilians-gaza-rcna157111

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

For people who see others as just part of a Race or Ethnicity, their victims are not persons, just pieces of a race to take down.

The aggressor's mental dehumanization of their victims is what allows them to just exterminate them as if they were animals and one way to dehumanize them is to look at them as just pieces of a "bad" Race which needs to be removed/eliminated.

Genociders target "a Race" and want to destroy "a Race" - that's how the aggressors see the whole affair: as a fight of Races.

The victims, on the other hand, are individual human beings who suffer as only thinking and feeling human beings can suffer, not as pieces of "a Race", and their suffering would be exactly the same when done the same things no mater what thier Race.

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