đ¨ The Worldâs Leading Genocide Scholars Declare: Israel Is Clearly and Unmistakably Committing Genocide in Gaza
Eighty-six percent of the International Association of Genocide Scholars voted to declare that Israelâs war on Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide.
Family, the worldâs leading experts on genocide have now spoken: Israelâs assault on Gaza is genocide under international law. If you believe the truth must be told without compromise, I need you with me: Subscribe here.
Yes, we already knew it was a genocide. Weâve seen this up close on our phones and screens for nearly 700 days, day after day, child after child. But we live in a time where nations rarely take the word of victims and act on it. They demand academic bodies, tribunals, and commissions to make the evidence undeniable. Well, that threshold has now been met.
Here is their official resolution. I just want you to have it for your records.
The Verdict from the Experts
The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) is the worldâs most respected body of experts in the field of genocide studies. It has about 500 members, from more than 30 countries, including many of the scholars who have testified in trials for Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, and Cambodia.
This week, the association voted overwhelmingly â 86 percent in favor â to pass a resolution declaring that Israelâs actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Their statement could not have been clearer: âIsraelâs 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).â
This is not fringe. This is not rhetorical. This is the worldâs leading genocide scholars, the same experts who defined and studied past genocides, now applying that word to Gaza.
What Genocide Means
The word âgenocideâ is often used loosely in conversation. But under international law, it has a very specific meaning. The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
Those acts include:
Killing members of the group.
Causing serious bodily or mental harm.
Inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the groupâs destruction â such as famine and disease.
Preventing births.
Forcibly transferring children away.
The IAGS resolution lays out how Israel has committed these acts in Gaza. The indiscriminate killing of tens of thousands of civilians. The deliberate destruction of hospitals, schools, and mosques. The systematic blockade that denies food, clean water, fuel, and medicine. The starvation campaign documented by aid agencies. The widespread detention, torture, and humiliation of civilians. The forced displacement of nearly the entire population of Gaza â more than two million people.
Most shocking of all: the children. More than 50,000 children have been killed or injured in Gaza. International courts have long recognized that targeting children is evidence of genocidal intent, because children are the very continuation of a people. If children are destroyed, the group itself cannot survive.
Evidence from Gaza
We donât need distant tribunals to see the evidence. Gaza itself has been broadcasting it in real time.
Entire neighborhoods have been flattened. Hospitals like al-Shifa and al-Quds reduced to rubble. Convoys of aid trucks bombed. Refugee camps like Jabalia and Nuseirat erased in fireballs. Ambulances turned to twisted metal with patients still inside.
Parents clutching the remains of their children. Infants starved to death in incubators with no power. Mothers too malnourished to produce milk, watching their babies fade away.
This is not collateral damage. This is a deliberate strategy of destruction. Thatâs why the International Criminal Court has already issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, including charges of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. Thatâs why the International Court of Justice has ruled it âplausibleâ that genocide is occurring, and has issued binding orders demanding Israel stop.
The genocide scholars have now joined the chorus. The evidence is overwhelming. The threshold has been crossed.
Words of Genocide, Actions of Genocide
In genocide law, intent is everything. The crime requires proof not just of actions, but of the intent to destroy.
Israeli officials have not hidden their intent. They have broadcast it.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called Palestinians in Gaza âhuman animalsâ and vowed to âeliminate everything.â President Isaac Herzog declared that the entire population of Gaza was responsible and would bear the consequences. Cabinet ministers said Gaza should be âflattenedâ and âturned into hell.â Netanyahu himself backed U.S. proposals to permanently resettle Palestinians outside Gaza â what former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay rightly called ethnic cleansing.
When leaders speak in genocidal language, and their militaries carry out genocidal acts, the connection is complete.
This is why the scholars are not cautious. They are not hedging. They are saying what the evidence and the intent make undeniable: this is genocide.
The Global Legal Consensus
This resolution does not stand alone. It joins a growing global consensus.
The International Court of Justice has already ruled that it is plausible Israel is committing genocide, and has ordered Israel to stop attacks that risk destroying the Palestinian people in Gaza. Those orders are legally binding. Israel has ignored them.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. Starvation as a weapon. Attacks on civilians. Crimes against humanity.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN Special Rapporteurs, and now the worldâs genocide scholars â all use the same word. Genocide.
The chorus is undeniable. The only ones still pretending otherwise are the governments who arm and fund Israel, led by the United States.
And that is where the reckoning comes home. Because if you are an American taxpayer, you are not neutral. You are paying for it.
Why This Matters to You
Family, this is not an academic debate. This is not a matter of âdiffering opinions.â The worldâs genocide scholars â the people who study Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, Armenia, the Holocaust â are telling you that Gaza belongs on that list.
And Americans are paying the bill. Every missile that collapses an apartment building. Every bomb that burns a family alive. Every bullet that kills a child on a playground. The receipts all lead back to Washington.
This resolution is a mirror. It shows us who we are, and what we are funding. If the United States ignores this consensus â if it keeps sending weapons while the experts declare genocide â then it is not only Israel on trial. It is America too.
đđ˝ Family, if the worldâs genocide experts can speak the truth, so can we. But this work takes members standing with me. Please join today.
Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
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For most of you, we already knew it was genocide. But when the leading body in the world declares it, it makes it almost impossible for governments to also do so.
There should be no more arguments about it now and American lawyers should find a way to stop our government from continuing to support it using our money. Especially since it seems Trumpâs âGaza Rivieraâ plan, aka Ethnic Cleansing plan, is in the works according to the Washington Post and their EVIL leaked plans. This needs to be stopped now.