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The “genocide scholars” who cannot define genocide
The International Association of Genocide Scholars – of all groups – has now declared Israel guilty of genocide. But instead of expertise, what they bring is recycled propaganda.
One would think that the IAGS would have their own analysis – this is their supposed field of expertise, so they must have good reason to declare Israel guilty.
But if you read their letter, they do not do any independent analysis. They do no fact checking. They show no seriousness in their declaration.
Here’s the first paragraph:
IAGS Resolution on the Situation in Gaza
Recognising that, since the horrific Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023, which itself constitutes international crimes, the government of Israel has engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against the civilians and civilian infrastructure (hospitals, homes, commercial buildings, etc.) of Gaza, which, according to official UN estimates, at the date of this resolution, has killed more than 59,000 adults and children in Gaza;
The determination of genocide is not a conclusion. It is their premise.
And their proof is – everyone else says it is, so it must be!
Acknowledging that leading global international law organizations and UN bodies, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Forensic Architecture, DAWN, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, have conducted extensive investigations and issued reports concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza;
These scholars have outsourced their scholarship on the very subject that they claim to own!
The entire resolution includes links to sources like Al Jazeera, or links to wire services quoting Hamas institutions, to back up their statements. They cannot even give lip service to the idea that there are plenty of serious scholars who dismiss the allegations, based on a normal reading of the law.
I could not find a single research paper on their website that looked at Gaza and gave evidence of genocide. The lack of any substantive discussion, legal review, definitions, or analysis done by their own scholars is most strange when they issue a resolution of this kind.
However, the site does have one paper that discusses genocidal actions in the Gaza region. A scholar named Sara E. Brown wrote a short monograph on the IAGS site that says Hamas was guilty of genocide on October 7, 2023:
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The terror attacks on October 7, 2023, will continue to reverberate across the Jewish community and broader society for years to come. This is the largest antisemitic massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. But as one scholar of genocide aptly pointed out to me, if the terrorists who crossed the fence between Gaza and Israel and perpetrated this slaughter could have killed more, they would have. Their intent was destruction, and their murderous aims were constrained only due to the limitations of their firepower and planning. They would not have paused in the midst of slaughtering, raping, and maiming to say, “we have done enough, let’s go back.” Rather, as their leadership asserts, they are committed to perpetrate the same crimes again and again. As a result, the threat of further Hamas perpetrated violence, terror, and genocide persists.
That paper recommends that “The International Association of Genocide Scholars must denounce Hamas’ genocidal violence, including the terror attack perpetrated against Israel on October 7, 2023, and Hamas’ threats of further genocidal violence.”
The IAGS never did that. At the bottom of this paper, the only scholarly paper about Gaza on their site, they say, “The views expressed herein are the authors’ alone and do not represent the views of IAGS as an organization.”
To sum up: the IAGS website has published evidence of Hamas’ genocidal aims and violence, and didn’t say a word about it. It has not published any analysis whatsoever on Israel’s alleged genocidal actions, and it condemned it.
It is difficult to ignore a broader trend which is apparent on the IAGS website and in academia altogether: the concept of genocide, once tightly defined around the Holocaust and similarly grave and exceptional events, is increasingly applied to modern armed conflicts, sometimes before hostilities have even ceased. Whether this is an effort to maintain academic relevance or a genuine shift in interpretive norms, the result is the same: genocide as a term risks becoming a rhetorical reflex rather than a juridical conclusion.
This is not a scholarly organization. This is a political organization whose only claim to gravitas is the phrase “genocide scholars” in their name.
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A widely-reported vote by an association of so-called “scholars” declaring Israel guilty of “genocide” was rigged to achieve a predetermined outcome, according to a member of the group.
International media reported Monday that the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) had voted overwhelmingly (86% in favor) to conclude that Israel was guilty of “genocide” in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
Israel firmly rejected the vote, saying that it inverted the victim and the perpetrator, given that Hamas had invaded Israel determined to kill as many people as possible, and that Israel was acting in self-defense.
Now, a member of the association is adding fuel to the criticism of the vote, pointing out several flaws. These include that the the vote was pushed through without debate; no dissenting views were permitted; the authors of the resolution were not revealed; and non-scholars participated in the vote. In fact, only one in four members of the group participated in the vote, meaning that an activist minority produced the result.
The Times of Israel quoted Sara Brown, a Jewish scholar of genocide, who said the process had been corrupt:
“The content of the resolution and the way it was forced through speak to an embarrassing absence of professionalism,” she says. Among her qualms with the resolution are that it cites organizations that have reinterpreted the definition of genocide so that it applies to Israel, such as Amnesty International.
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The association also did not allow dissenting opinions to be published on its list serve, saying the list serve was not a forum for such discussions, and declined to release the names of the members who drafted the resolution, the emails show.
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“The appearance is that this was a unanimous vote on behalf of the entirety of the association. It was not, and they refused to have a transparent, critical discussion,” Brown says. “The leadership, in my opinion, had an agenda.”
Brown added that the IAGS had added non-scholars as voting members, including political activists and artists, who contributed “diversity” but did not add anything in terms of scholarship of analysis.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Zionist Conspiracy Wants You, now available on Amazon. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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Ja det sædvanlige. Intet om at unwra stjæler nødhjælp for at finansiere hamas. Intet om de dræbte israelske og 8amerikanske nødhjælpsarbejder i den alternative nødhjælpsorganisation, som sørger for nødhjælpsuddeling udenom hamas og unwra…..men disse oplysninger kommer jo også fra israel, så de kan jo ikke være så troværdige, som de hamaskontrollerede i unwra….( ja satire, men fra virkeligheden)