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The Case Before the ICJ: Is Israel Committing Genocide in the Gaza Strip?
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, JUL 15 – Omer Bartov alleges Israel's Gaza campaign has killed over 58,000 Palestinians and describes ongoing actions as ethnic cleansing with genocidal intent, citing expert consensus.
- On Tuesday, Omer Bartov, a Brown University genocide scholar, published a 3500-word New York Times essay concluding Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
- Bartov reached this conclusion after examining Israel’s 21-month offensive responding to the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 and noted the destruction of civilian infrastructure and forced displacement.
- A UN inquiry found over 90 percent of Gaza’s schools and universities damaged, 80 percent of water infrastructure destroyed, and at least 58,479 Palestinians killed, mostly women and children.
- Bartov wrote that Israeli officials’ intent to render Gaza uninhabitable supports his genocide conclusion, while Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch also found genocidal acts had occurred.
- The genocide designation’s denial risks damaging international law and Holocaust scholarship, and many nations at a Colombia-led conference discussed diplomatic and judicial steps to pressure Israel to stop its attacks.
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caitlinjohnst.oneThe New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious. It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself. In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies named Omer Bartov argues that…
As we watch Gaza, we are all witnesses to history
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An inquest into the violence of liberal chic
In the established discourse, it is not your cruelty that counts. It is your tone. This is a disturbing reality that we have all been inundated with, especially since the Israeli genocide in Gaza began. The twisting of language and the omission of history to sanitize carpet-bombing has driven all kinds of professional writers mad. When she resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times in the early weeks of the massacres, Anne Boyer admitted t…
The one article (other than mine) you MUST read today. It's from the leading scholar on the Holocaust and Genocide in The NY Times.
The North Star with Shaun King is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Good evening from Brooklyn,I hope you are doing well. I had yet another MRI on my cervical spine (my neck) today and a painful nerve test called an EMG (where they poked needles in all of my nerves and measured how well they are working) as I prepare for yet another spinal surgery in the weeks ah…
UN rapporteur calls for global action to stop genocide in Gaza
The United Nations’ special rapporteur for Gaza and the West Bank said Tuesday that it's time for nations around the world to take concrete actions to stop what she called the genocide in Gaza. Francesca Albanese spoke to delegates from 30 countries meeting in Colombia’s capital to discuss the Gaza war and ways that nations can try to stop Israel’s military offensive in the territory. Many of the participating nations have described the violence…
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