Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide
Milwaukee
The human rights organization Amnesty International has issued a nearly 300-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Israel and the United States have both rejected this accusation.
However, Amnesty International is not alone in reaching this determination. Amos Goldberg, a Holocaust and genocide researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has also concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide.
“What is happening in Gaza is genocide because the level and pace of indiscriminate killing, destruction, mass expulsions, displacement, famine, executions, the wiping out of cultural and religious institutions... and the sweeping dehumanization of the Palestinians — create an overall picture of genocide, of a deliberate conscious crushing of Palestinian existence in Gaza,” said Goldberg.
Yet perhaps the most compelling account of Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been compiled by Israeli historian Lee Mordechai, an associate professor at Hebrew University.
Mordechai’s 124-page report, “Bearing WitnesstotheIsrael-GazaWar,” iscorroborated by a massive database with over 1,400 footnotes linking to eyewitness testimonies, videos, photos, articles and investigative reports documenting atrocities by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. The chapters in the report include “The Massacre of Palestinians,” “Causing Deaths of Civilian Populations,” “Dehumanization” and “Ethnic Cleansing.” According to Mordechai,“Theenormous amount of evidence I have seen... has been enough for me to believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza.”
The website of America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee states that its founder, Dr. James Cameron, “admired the Jewish insistence on the preventive importance of keeping the memory of mass atrocity alive in the world’s conscience.”
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States’ official memorial to the Holocaust, and it is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum teaches genocide prevention, and it emphasizes that heeding warning signs and taking early action can save lives.
Does our government fail to adhere to these principles when the perpetrator is a U.S. ally?
