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The International Association of Genocide Scholars has passed a
resolution declarting that IsraelrCOs actions in Gaza meet the legal
definition of genocide <https://genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IAGS-Resolution-on-Gaza-FINAL.pdf>.

Israel has, of course, labelled this resolution as rCLdisgracefulrCY, and
is still insisting that Israel was the victim of genocide, not
Palestine. Ignoring the fact that the IAGS did take this into account:

Whereas Israel's actions in response to the October 7 attack and
subsequent holding of hostages have not only been directed against
the Hamas group responsible for these, but have also targeted the
entire Gazan population;

The resolution mentions not only IsraelrCOs actions:

Recognising that the actions of the Israeli government against
Palestinians have included torture, arbitrary detention, and
sexual and reproductive violence; deliberate attacks on medical
professionals, humanitarian aid workers and journalists; and the
deliberate deprivation of food, water, medicine, and electricity
essential to the survival of the population;

Recognising that Israel has forcibly displaced nearly all of the
2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip multiple times, and
demolished more than 90 percent of the housing infrastructure in
the territory;

Recognising that the consequences of these crimes have included
destroying entire families and multiple generations of
Palestinians;

but also the explicitly stated aims of IsraelrCOs leaders themselves:

Recognising that Israeli governmental leaders, war cabinet
ministers, and senior army officers have made explicit statements
of rCLintent to destroyrCY, characterizing Palestinians in Gaza as a
whole as enemies and rCLhuman animalsrCY and stating the intention of
inflicting rCLmaximum damagerCY on Gaza, rCLflattening Gaza,rCY and
turning Gaza into rCLhellrCY;

(with references for all of these claims, of course), the resolution
goes on to say

Acknowledging that putative security measures against members of a
group are often pretext for mass killing and genocide as it has
become in this case;

Therefore, the International Association of Genocide Scholars:
Declares that IsraelrCOs policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal
definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations
Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide (1948);

Declares that IsraelrCOs policies and actions in Gaza constitute war
crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in international
humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court;

concluding with

Calls upon the government of Israel to comply with the Provisional
Measures orders of the International Court of Justice;

Calls upon the state parties of the International Criminal Court
to comply with their obligations, cooperate with the Court, and
surrender any individual subject to an arrest warrant;

Calls upon all states to actively pursue policies to ensure
respect for their obligations under international law, including
under the Genocide Convention, the Arms Trade Treaty and
international humanitarian law, with regards to Israel and
Palestine;

and

Calls upon the government of Israel and all other United Nations
members to support a process of repair and transitional justice
that will afford democracy, freedom, dignity, and security for all
people of Gaza.

Yup, the whole thing, all 1100-odd words of it, is basically one
sentence.
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