spontaneously dying.

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as a victory for their cause.

Fully 20% of Israel's population are Palestinian citizens of Israel. A Palestinian citizen of Israel sits on the Supreme Court, and there are Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Knesset.

The idea that Israel is engaged in a genocide is absurd on its face.

Ethnic cleansing, extermination, involuntary transfer?

The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/learn-about-genocide-and-other-mass-atrocities/what-is-genocide

Two prominent Israeli rights groups on Monday said their country is committing genocide in Gaza, the first time that local Jewish-led organizations have made such accusations against Israel during nearly 22 months of war.

The claims by B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel add to an explosive debate over whether Israel’s military offensive in Gaza — launched in response to Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack — amounts to genocide.


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/two-israeli-rights-groups-say-their-country-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza

Any claim to "ethnic cleansing", "extermination", and "involuntary transfer" needs to be supported by evidence of those specific legal charges. Over 20% of Israeli citizens are Palestinian. It patently absurd to claim that a country with over 2,000,000 Palestinian citizens is engaged in "ethnic cleansing" or "extermination" of Palestinians. Frankly, would Israel allow a Palestinian citizen of Israel to sit on the Supreme Court if any of the "genocide", "ethnic cleansing", or "extermination" claims were even vaguely true?

And as for apocryphal "involuntary transfers", when exactly did that happen?

The fact that "prominent groups" are making genocide claims is immaterial, given that genocide is a crime of specific intent and that intent is not present.

There's a reason why both Amnesty International and Ireland want the definition of "genocide" changed and broadened. It's because they know that the war in Gaza is not genocide and that the genocide claims are counterfactual to both the necessary conditions articulated in the language of the statute and long standing legal precedent.

.... the words "Even Wars Have Rules" are emblazoned in huge letters on a glass rotunda.

nor "involuntary transfer".

And as party to the Geneva Convention with all the duties appurtenant to that role, the UK has determined that it also not "genocide".

Indeed, wars do have rules. Someone should inform Hamas of that fact. Notwithstanding noble platitudes emblazoned on glass rotundas, it has been well documented that Hamas has been "breaking the rules" of war for decades. The people of Gaza are among their victims.

I don’t know who owns Keir Starmer, but the violent and shocking arrests of peace protesters testifies to a lack of decency I would never have expected. Sucking up to our felon just seems weak, and could be called playing politics, but what is going on with all the fricking authoritarianism?

The same people who toppled Jeremy Corbyn and others in Labour. With a great big heaping of help from the pro-Israel British media and the elites on the right terrified of a genuine socialist government.

Labour lives in fear of the weaponization of anti-semitism, as most political parties in the West. Hence the inaction and complicity in Palestinians' genocide.