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Palestinian genocide accusation

This article is about genocide allegations made throughout the entire Israeli–Palestinian conflict. For the allegations pertaining only to the Gaza war, see Gaza genocide. For the ICJ proceeding, see South Africa's genocide case against Israel.
"Stop the genocide, free Palestine" rally in Helsinki, Finland 21 October 2023

The State of Israel has been accused of carrying out a genocide against Palestinians at various times during the longstanding Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Debate on whether Israel's treatment of Palestinians since the Nakba meets the definition of genocide, and whether such actions are continuous or limited to specific periods or events, is ongoing. This treatment has also been characterised as "slow-motion genocide",[1][2] as well as a corollary or expression of settler colonialism and indigenous land theft.[3][4][5]

Those who believe Israel's actions constitute genocide point to the entrenched anti-Palestinianism, anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia and genocidal rhetoric in Israeli society, and point to events such as the Nakba, the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the 2014 Gaza War and the Gaza war as particularly pertinent genocidal episodes.[6][7] International law and genocide scholars have accused Israeli officials of using dehumanising language.[8][9][10] During the Gaza war, Israeli Holocaust historian Omer Bartov warned that statements made by high-ranking Israeli government officials "could easily be construed as indicating a genocidal intent".[11]

On 29 December 2023, South Africa filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, alleging that Israel's conduct in Gaza during the 2023 war amounted to genocide.[12][13] South Africa asked the ICJ to issue provisional measures, including ordering Israel to halt its military campaign in Gaza.[12] The Israeli government agreed to defend itself at the ICJ proceedings, while also denouncing South Africa's actions as "disgraceful" and accusing it of abetting "the modern heirs of the Nazis".[14] South Africa's case has been supported by a number of countries.[15] On 26 January 2024, the ICJ issued a preliminary ruling finding that the claims in South Africa's filing were "plausible" and issued an order to Israel requiring them to take all measures within their power to prevent acts of genocide and to allow basic humanitarian services into Gaza.[16] In March 2024, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, issued a report stating that there were "reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission" of acts of genocide had been met. Israel rejected the report.[17][18]

Israel and the United States have rejected the assertion that Israel is engaging in genocide.[19][20] While some scholars describe Palestinians as victims of genocide, others argue that what took place was ethnic cleansing,[21][22][23] politicide, spaciocide, cultural genocide or similar.[24][25][a] Some critics of the accusation have argued that the charge that Israel is committing genocide is an assertion commonly made by anti-Zionists with the aim of delegitimising or demonising Israel.[29]

  1. ^ Lendman 2010, pp. 30–33.
  2. ^ Nijim 2023, p. 177.
  3. ^ Rashed & Short 2012, pp. 1143, 1148–1149.
  4. ^ Docker 2012, p. 2.
  5. ^ El-Affendi 2024, p. 1; Short 2016, p. 10; Shaw 2013, p. 4; Rashed, Short & Docker 2014, pp. 13–15; Usher 2006, pp. 10–14, 28–29; Saldívar 2010, pp. 826–827, 828–829; Khoury 2018, pp. 117–118; Nijim 2020, pp. 41–47; Samudzi 2024, pp. 7–8; United Nations 2022; Adhikari et al. 2018, p. 148; Üngör 2024, pp. 3–4: "or Israeli settler colonial genocide"
  6. ^ Center for Constitutional Rights 2016, p. 6.
  7. ^ Eghbariah 2023; Shaw 2013, pp. 1–7; Nijim 2023, pp. 173–174, 176–177
  8. ^ Docker 2012, p. 16; Munayyer 2015; Bruneau & Kteily 2017; Schiavenza 2018; Kuttab 2023; Wintour 2023
  9. ^ "Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza". Third World Approaches to International Law Review. 17 October 2023. Archived from the original on 17 November 2023. Statements of Israeli officials since 7 October 2023 suggest that beyond the killings and restriction of basic conditions for life perpetrated against Palestinians in Gaza, there are also indications that the ongoing and imminent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip are being conducted with potentially genocidal intent. Language used by Israeli political and military figures appears to reproduce rhetoric and tropes associated with genocide and incitement to genocide. Dehumanising descriptions of Palestinians have been prevalent. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared on 9 October that "we are fighting human animals and we act accordingly". He subsequently announced that Israel was moving to "a full-scale response" and that he had "removed every restriction" on Israeli forces, as well as stating: "Gaza won't return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything." On 10 October, the head of the Israeli army's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, addressed a message directly to Gaza residents: "Human animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water, there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell". The same day, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari acknowledged the wanton and intentionally destructive nature of Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza: "The emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy."
  10. ^ "Corrections: Jan. 24, 2024". The New York Times. 24 January 2024. Archived from the original on 29 January 2024. Gaza won't return to what it was before. There will be no Hamas. We will eliminate everything.
  11. ^ Bartov, Omer (10 November 2023). "Opinion | What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  12. ^ a b Roelf, Wendell; Sterling, Toby (29 December 2023). "South Africa files genocide case against Israel at World Court". Reuters. Archived from the original on 31 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  13. ^ "South Africa launches case at top UN court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza". AP News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 31 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  14. ^ Lazaroff, Tovah (2 Jan 2024). "Israel to defend itself at Int'l Court of Justice's genocide hearing on Gaza". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 6 January 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
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  16. ^ "Read the I.C.J. ruling". The New York Times. 26 January 2024. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 26 January 2024. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  17. ^ Albanese, Francesca (25 March 2024). "Anatomy of a Genocide". un.org. United Nations. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
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  19. ^ Magid, Jacob (7 November 2023). "White House spokesman appears to reject claim Israel committing 'genocide'". Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 22 November 2023.
  20. ^ Sales, Ben (27 May 2021). "People are accusing Israel of genocide. These human rights lawyers beg to differ". Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  21. ^ Pappé 2006.
  22. ^ Shaw 2013, pp. 1–2.
  23. ^ Rashed, Short & Docker 2014, pp. 9–10.
  24. ^ Rashed, Short & Docker 2014, pp. 12–15; Lentin 2008, p. 10; Lentin 2010, pp. 20–21: "While neither 'categorial murder' nor genocide, the Nakba has been described as 'ethnic cleansing' (Pappé, 2006) or 'spaciocide' (Hanafi, 2005), perpetrated by self categorising 'Jews', 'Zionists', or 'Israelis', against people they categorised as 'Arabs'."
  25. ^ Corn, David (3 November 2023). "During a Trip to Israel, Mike Johnson Connected With Far-Right Extremists". Mother Jones. Archived from the original on 2 January 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2024. During the trip, Johnson observed, "You hear in the US about how the Palestinians or the Arab people are oppressed in these areas, and have these terrible lives. None of that is true. We didn't see any of it."
  26. ^ Lentin 2010, pp. 20–21.
  27. ^ Pappé, Ilan (28 January 2008). "Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank". The Indypendent. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2024 – via Countercurrents.
  28. ^ Lentin 2010, p. 142.
  29. ^ Hirsh, David (2015). "Anti Zionism and Antisemitism: Cosmopolitan Reflections" (PDF). The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective: 106–107. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.


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