Why is there a question mark in the campaign’s name? Is Israel committing genocide against the Palestinian people? What are the counter arguments to your stance? What can I do about it? The answers to all these questions and more follow.
If you think we forgot anything, please write us in the comments.
We all know it’s genocide, what’s with the question mark?
Part of our aim is to provide information to the public, and we don’t want to provide misleading information. Genocide is legal terminology. The question mark is there, not because we doubt Israel is committing grave Crimes Against Humanity against the Palestinian people, but because we are asking the number one legal authority on the subject, in the world, to determine if Israel is committing the Crime of Genocide, regardless of our layperson opinion.
I know what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people is bad, but is it genocide?
Did you know there’s a very informative article, by Charles Davis on VISE, with that same title?
As we said, we aim to provide information and raise public awareness. In fact, we pride ourselves on this. If you question our premise, please feel free to browse through our Articles archive. We’ve read each and every article we post. Allow us to recommend the ones that we found most instructive as to the question of whether Israel is committing genocide:
- 118th Congress 1st Session H. RES. 388: Recognizing the Ongoing Nakba and Palestine Refugees rights. (Ms. Tlaib (For Herself, Ms. Omar, Ms. Mccollum, Mr. Bowman, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, and Ms. Bush to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, May 2023)
- Meet Francesca Albanese: The UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine (Convivencia Alliance and Jewish Network for Palestine, April 2023)
- Israel: Evidence of Bezalel Smotrich’s support for genocide is clear. The US must act (Eitay Mack, March 2023)
- Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working through the United Nations (Friends of Sabeel North America hosts UN Rapporteurs Michael Lynk, Richard A. Falk, and Francesca Albanese, March 2023)
- Israel’s new far-right government: Unprecedented challenges and opportunities (BDS National Committee, March 2023)
- US: Revoke Visa, Deny Entry to Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich Over Incitement to Violence (DAWN, March 2023)
- Director in the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “The international community needs to finally confront the decades long reality of ongoing genocide in Palestine” (Craig Mokhiber, February 2023)
- UN experts say Israel should be held accountable for acts of ‘domicide’ (United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, February 2023)
- The First Anti-Apartheid Palestinian National Conference Call Towards A Global Front To Dismantle Israel’s Regime Of Settler-Colonialism And Apartheid (Anti-Apartheid Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, Palestinian NGO Network, Palestinian Ministry of Justice, and Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), January 2023)
- Red Flag Alert for Genocide – Israel (Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, January 2023)
- Netflix’s “Farha” is a mild depiction of the Nakba (Jonathan Ofir, December 2022)
- The Tantura massacre’s perpetrators confessed. Its survivors have this to say (Baker Zoubi, December 2022)
- Under the Government’s Political Insubordination, Aviv Kochavi Turns Lethality into Policy (Yagil Levy, Telem, November 2022) (English translation)
- Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism (Rania Muhareb, Elizabeth Rghebi, Pearce Clancy, Joseph Schechla, Nada Awad, and Maha Abdallah, Al-Haq, November 2022)
- ‘Place the Material in the Wells’: Docs Point to Israeli Army’s 1948 Biological Warfare (Ofer Aderet, Haaretz, October 2022)
- Situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967* (Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese)
- Toward Indigenous Ultimate Permanence: Examining Settler Colonialism and Genocidal Elimination in Canada and Israel (Molly Barbara Cop Rasmussen, May 2022)
- State Archive Error Shows Israeli Censorship Guided by Concerns Over National Image (Ofer Aderet, January 2022)
- Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew (Ha’aretz, December 2021)
- “Today we are Nazis,” says member of Israeli Jewish extremist group ( May 2021)
- Statement of ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, respecting an investigation of the Situation in Palestine (International Criminal Court website, March 2021)
- ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I issues its decision on the Prosecutor’s request related to territorial jurisdiction over Palestine (International Criminal Court website, February 2021)
- Genocide supporter may get top job at Israel Holocaust memorial (Ali Abunimah, October 2020)
- What is the Sabra and Shatila massacre? (Sofia Aboudari, September 2020)
- The Right to Inheritance and to Return, Keys to Peace in Palestine (Ilan Pappe, Uri Davis and Tamar Yaron, July 2020)
- Will the ICC Investigation Bring Justice for Palestine ( interviews Dr. Triestino Mariniello, July 2020)
- Genocide in Gaza: Physical Destruction and Beyond (Mohammed Nijim, July 2020)
- IADL urges strong international action to stop Israeli annexation of Palestinian land (International Association of Democratic Lawyers, July 2020)
- Situation in the State of Palestine (Legal Representative of Persecution Victims, Katherine Gallagher, March 2020)
- THE DAWABSHEH FAMILY, ET AL. v. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ET AL. (United States District Court for the District of Columbia, March 2020)
- Israel is systematically poisoning one million Palestinian children (Robert Inlakesh, January 2020)
- Uninhabitable: Gaza Faces Moment of Truth (Jonathan Cook, August 2019)
- The tragedy of Gaza’s children (Kevin Watkin, August 2019)
- Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs (Hagar Shezaf, July 2019)
- Let’s Talk About Genocide: The Numerical Counter-Argument to the Genocide of the Palestinian People (Tali Shapiro, June 2019)
- Al Nakbah and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (Hanin Abou Salem, May 2019)
- Why we opposed WIFI: Challenging WIFI’s complicity in state violence (
- The Legal Battle for Justice Against Israeli Settlers and Their American Financiers (Washington Report On Middle East Affairs, May 2019)
- BASSEM AL-TAMIMI, ET AL. v. SHELDON ADELSON, ET AL. Appeal (United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Decided February 2019)
- Gantz Is Running – to The Hague (Odeh Bisharat , January 2019)
- Israeli citizens to Booking.com: Stop profiteering from Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian people (Boycott from Within, December 2018)
- Netanyahu compares Israel to settler colonialists (Middle East Monitor, November 2018)
- Study: Polluted water main cause of death in Gaza (Middle East Monitor, October 2018)
- General’s Final Confession Links 1956 Massacre to Israel’s Secret Plan to Expel Arabs (Ha’aretz, October 2018)
- Health Ministry: “%80 Of Cancer Medications Depleted In Gaza Hospitals” (IMEMC News, August 2018)
- Food Theft as a Form of Cultural Genocide (Lawrence Davidson, August, 2018)
- Israel’s policies in Gaza are genocidal (Haidar Eid, August 2018)
- Of Genocide and Those Who Do Nothing (J.B. Gerald, July 2018)
- Essential services on verge of shutting down in Gaza due to lack of emergency fuel (United Nations office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, July 2018)
- ICC judges order outreach to victims of war crimes in Palestine (Ali Abunimah, July 2018)
- UN: Electricity crisis brings Gaza to verge of disaster (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, February 2018)
- In words and deeds: The genesis of Israeli violence (Ramzy Baroud, January 2018)
- Recognition under International Law (Aarif Muzafar Rather, January 2018)
- Reconceptualising Settler-Colonialism and Genocide with Special Reference to Palestine, Sri Lanka and Australia: Reflections on Damien Short’s Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide (John Docker, 2017)
- Close to Home: Gaza knows suffering too well (Mona El-Farra, December 2017)
- Liberal Israeli leaders were contemplating genocide in Gaza already in 1967 (Jonathan Ofir, November 2017)
- Israel’s genocidal political culture (Ali Abunimah, November 2017)
- Book: The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (J November 2017)
- No Palestinian state in West Bank, says Israeli minister (Middle East Monitor, October 2017)
- Video: Everyday Israelis express support for genocide (Ali Abunimah, October 2017)
- Palestinian appeal to ICC seen as last hope to ‘bring justice for the victims’ of Israeli violations (Sheren Khalel, September 2017)
- UNCTAD Assistance to the Palestinian People: Developments in the Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (September 2017)
- Gaza: 1 Million Children Suffering In ‘unlivable’ Conditions (Save the Children, September 2017)
- Empire, Resistance, and Security: International Law and the Transformative Occupation of Palestine (A. Dirk Moses, July 2017)
- These are the Israeli leaders who want to destroy al-Aqsa (Dan Cohen, July 2017)
- Gaza Ten Years Later (United Nations Country Team in the occupied Palestinian territory, July 2017)
- If It’s Not Genocide, What Word Should We Use? (
- One question left in Gaza: Death by massacre or lack of electricity? (Haidar Eid, June 2017)
- Israeli MK’s Final Solution to the ‘Palestine Problem’ (Richard Silverstein, May 2017)
- #BlackLivesMatter and the Question of Genocide in Palestine (Katherine Franke, November 2016)
- Netanyahu, This Is What Ethnic Cleansing Really Looks Like (Daniel Blatman, October 2016)
- Palestinian Genocide and Canadian State Complicity (Institute for the Humanities, October 2016)
- The Genocide of the Palestinian People: An International Law and Human Rights Perspective (Center for Constitutional Rights, August 2016)
- Bassem al-Tamimi and others Vs. Sheldon Adelson and others (District Court of Columbia, March 2016)
- Breaking the Silence // The Poem That Exposed Israeli War Crimes in 1948 (Yair Auron, March 2016)
- ‘Barbarism by an educated and cultured people’ — Dawayima massacre was worse than Deir Yassin (Jonathan Ofir, February 2016)
- Mohammed Abu-Khdeir and the Politics of Racial Terror in Occupied Jerusalem (Sarah Ihmoud, 2015)
- Israel’s assaults on Palestinian education amount to genocide (Nada Elia & Rima Najjar, September 2015)
- The ‘Right’ to Maim: Disablement and Inhumanist Biopolitics in Palestine (Jasbir K. Puar, May 2015)
- The Prevention of Genocide and other Grave Crimes against Humanity against Palestinians (National Lawyers Guild, ICC Press Release by Joanne Maria McNally and Marjorie Cohn, March 2015)
- Is Israel Committing the Crime of Genocide? (Amandla!, 2015)
- Let’s Talk About Genocide: Inferring Israel’s Genocidal Intent (Tali Shapiro, November 2014)
- On the Meaning of Genocide (Norman Finkelstein, October 2014)
- The Political Economy of Israeli Apartheid and the Specter of Genocide (William I Robinson, September 2014)
- Extraordinary Session on Gaza: Summary of findings (Russell Tribunal, November 2014) full video documentation of the session can be found here.
- Israel’s extermination of whole families in Gaza reflects genocidal impulse (The Electronic Intifada August 2014)
- Genocidal desistance in Gaza (Allen Feldman, August 2014)
- US Leaders Aid and Abet Israeli War Crimes, Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity (Marjorie Cohn, August 2014)
- Genocide becomes mainstream in Israeli discourse (Yazan al-Saadi, August 2014)
- Academic Paper: Israeli War Crimes in Gaza according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (Prof. Paul De Waart, August 2020)
- R2P in Gaza: A Long Overdue Debate (Coralie Hindawi, August 2014)
- “Concentrate” and “exterminate”: Israel parliament deputy speaker’s Gaza genocide plan (Ali Abunimah, August 2014)
- Is Israel Committing a Genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza? (Luke Peterson, August 2014)
- UN’s Investigation of Israel Should Go Beyond War Crimes to Genocide (Michael Ratner, July 2014)
- If Gaza Isn’t a Genocide, What Is?: Discourse as Resistance (Megan MacKenzie, July 2014)
- Let’s Talk About Genocide: The Case of Palestine (Tali Shapiro, July 2014)
- Israel’s Gaza Genocide Redux (Professor Francis A. Boyle, 2014)
- Palestinian Children as Tools for ‘Legalized’ State Violence (Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2014)
- Genocide and International Relations: Changing Patterns in the Transitions of the Late Modern World (Martin Shaw, 2013)
- The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians (Professor Francis A. Boyle, January 2013)
- Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel (David Lloyd, February 2013)
- Tribunal Issues Landmark Verdict against Israel for Genocide (Yoichi Shimatsu, July 2013)
- The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (November 2013)
- The Palestinian Genocide by Israel (MWC News, 2013)
- Instrumentalising the Holocaust: Israel, Settler-Colonialism, Genocide – Creating a Conversation between Raphaël Lemkin and Ilan Pappé (John Docker, April 2012)
- Nakba memoricide: Genocide Studies and the Zionist/Israeli genocide of Palestine and Genocide and settler colonialism: can a Lemkin-inspired genocide perspective aid our understanding of the Palestinian situation (Haifa Rashed, Dr. Damien Short, and Prof. John Docker, 2014, 2012 respectively)
- Origins of Israel’s Anti-Arab Racism (Prof. Lawrence Davidson, 2012)
- US gave Israel Green Light for Sabra, Shatila Massacre (Finian Cunningham, 2012)
- Applying International Criminal Law to Israel’s Treatment of the Palestinian People (Badil, 2011)
- Overdue Books: Returning Palestine’s “Abandoned Property” of 1948 (Hannah Mermelstein, September 2011)
- BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions : the Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Omar Barghouti, 2011)
- Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory and Power (David Lyon, Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Elia Zureik, January 2010)
- When Does It Become Genocide? (Nadia Hijab, April 2010)
- Activists who heckled Israeli quartet cleared of racism charge (The Guardian, April 2010)
- Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide (Martin Shaw, 2010)
- Gaza civil society to UN chief: siege more than “unacceptable” (Palestinian civil society groups, 2010)
- The Cultural Genocide of Palestine (Dr. Hanan Chehata, May 2010)
- INFID’s statement on Israeli military attack on Palestinians in Gaza: Israel commits the crime of genocide!! (HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Ninth special session, January 2009)
- Am I Not a Human (5): The Israeli Massacres of the Palestinian People (Al-Zaytouna Centre, 2009) in Arabic
- Addameer Public Statement On Detainees Arrested From Gaza (Addameer, January 2009)
- Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Welcomes Decision of Spanish Court to Investigate War Crimes Committed by IOF in Gaza (PCHR, January 2009)
- Declaration of Genocide Scholars and Professionals on Israel and Palestine (genocidetext.net, February 2009)
- It’s Genocide. Full Stop. (Michael Gillespie, March 2009)
- Report of the Independent Fact Finding Committee On Gaza: No Safe Place. (For the Arab League of States, Chaired by Professor John Dugard, April 2009)
- The Human Rights of Children and Women in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Curtis F.J. Doebbler, November 2009)
- UNRWA: The Unsung Hero (Salman Abu Sitta, December 2009)
- The Wall and International Law (Víctor de Currea-Lugo for PENGON / Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, 2009)
- Roadmap to Genocide (A. Clare Brandabur, September, 2008)
- Israeli minister threatens “holocaust” as public demand ceasefire talks (Ali Abunimah, February 2008)
- Israeli Extra-Judicial Executions (Stephen Lendman, March 2008)
- Sabra and Chatila (Signoles Aude, March 2008)
- Nakba: The Israeli Holocaust Denial (Kim Petersen, March 2007)
- Overcoming the Ongoing Nakba: BDS & the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement (Al Majdal, Summer 2008)
- What is Genocide? (Martin Shaw, 2007)
- Indigenous and minority education international perspectives on empowerment (Duane Champagne Ismael Abu-Saad, 2005)
- It’s the Demography, Stupid An interview with geographer/demographer Arnon Soffer (Ruthie Blum, May 2004)
- ‘I Saw Fit to Remove Her From the World’ (Aviv Lavie, Moshe Gorali, October 2003)
- Belgium Supreme Court rules that Ariel Sharon can be tried for genocide (Electronic Intifada, February 2003)
- Marwan Barghouti presents charge sheet against State of Israel (The Electronic Intifada, 2002)
- ‘Israel commits massacre in Jenin refugee camp’ (Arjan El Fassed, April 2002)
- WCAR NGO Forum Declaration (HURIGHTS OSAKA, September 2001)
- Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes (William Schabas, 2000)
- The Illegality of Population Transfers and the Application of Emerging International Norms in the Palestinian Context (Alfred de Zayas, Palestine Yearbook of International Law, 1990-1991)
- The Palestine Yearbook of International Law 1998 (Kluwer Law International, 1998)
- Letter from Permanent Observer for the Palestine to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Nabil Ramlawi, to the Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights (United Nations website, September 1989)
- Question Of The Violation Of Human Rights In The Occupied Arab Territories, Including Palestine (United Nations Economic and Social Council, February 1988)
- The Palestine Yearbook of International Law (Edited by Anis F. Kassim, 1986)
- The Kahan Report, Ariel Sharon and the SabraShatilla Massacres in Lebanon: Responsibility Under International Law for Massacres of Civilian Populations (Linda A. Malone, 1985)
- Permission to Narrate (Edward Said, 1984)
- Israel in Lebanon: Report of the International Commission to Enquire into Reported Violations of International Law by Israel during Its Invasion of the Lebanon (Chaired by Sean Macbride, 1983)
- The situation in the Middle East (United Nations General Assembly, December 1982)
- Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (Fayez Sayegh, 1965)
- Eighty third meeting, held at Palais de Chaillot, Paris, on Monday, 25 October 1948 : [6th Committee, General Assembly, 3rd session] (United Nations Digital Library, 1948)
- Sixty Eighth meeting, held at Palais de Chaillot, Paris, on Wednesday, 6 October 1948 : [6th Committee, General Assembly, 3rd session] (United Nations Digital Library, 1948)
I think I’m convinced that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people, but you’re only showing me information that supports this statement. Do you have resources arguing against it?
Obviously our goal is to argue that Israel is committing genocide against the indigenous Palestinian people. However, we are not afraid of debate. If you dig deeper into our Articles archive, you’ll find that many of the articles are actually rebuttals to the argument that Israel is not committing genocide. So the arguments against our own are actually presented here, on the website, within the same articles:
- Liberal Israeli icon calls to raze Gaza neighborhoods (Jonathan Ofir, May 2023)
- Israeli minister’s call to ‘erase Huwara’ condemned (Al Jazeera , March 2023)
- Israeli lawmaker warns Palestinians of another ‘Nakba’ if they fly Palestinian flag (Jonathan Ofir, May 2022)
- Israel’s Bennett urges citizens to carry guns, says ‘this is the time’ (Middle East Eye, March 2022)
- Accusing Israel of ‘genocide’ is equivalent to supporting Al Qaeda and ISIS and should bar a person from government employment — Greenblatt (Philip Weiss, February 2022)
- Ben Gurion ‘didn’t finish the job’ of ethnic cleansing, says Israel MK (Bezalel Smotrich, October 2021)
- Israel: Knesset member calls for murder of people in mixed marriages (Middle East Eye, June 2021)
- People are accusing Israel of genocide. These human rights lawyers beg to differ. (Ben Sales, May 2021)
- Former CIA head targets Jewish suffering in Israel’s actions (Seth J. Frantzman, April 2021)
- Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen: Yad Vashem at a Crossroads (The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, January 2021)
- “Israel could end up like Nazi Germany”, Yair Golan (Middle East Monitor, October 2019)
- Israel’s homophobic education minister Rafi Peretz peddles a vile doctrine, racist to its core (David Sheen, July 2019)
- Archaeologists on Twitter tear down Netanyahu’s claims that Palestinians have ‘no connection’ to homeland (Yumna Patel, July 2019)
- What’s Wrong With Palestinian Surrender?(Danny Danon, The New York Times, June 2019)
- Why we opposed WIFI: Challenging WIFI’s complicity in state violence (
- Israeli Technion Professor, Yitzhak Birk, incites to genocide against the people of Gaza as Israel bombs for a second day in a row (Sivan Tal, May 2019)
- Israeli media calls out genocidal education at military prep schools (David Sheen, April 2019)
- The Right Yearns to Oust the Palestinians. The Left Must Stop It (
- At an Israeli government conference on education this week, genocide was celebrated from the podium, to great applause (David Sheen, July 2018)
- Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza “once and for all” (Ali Abunimah, May 2018)
- Netanyahu hat-tips settler who called for extermination camps (Yossi Gurvitz, April 2018)
- Despite Israel’s Repeated Genuine Unwillingness to Carry Out Investigation and Prosecute Perpetrators, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, in Contravention of ICC Mandate, Accepts the Perpetrator’s Official Positions, and Still Won’t Initiate an Investigation (Office of the Prosecutor, April 2018)
- GOLDSTEIN: On Jerusalem Scheer’s right, Trudeau’s wrong (Lorrie Goldstein, March 2018)
- Israeli Minister Says More Palestinians Need to Die (The Palestine Chronicle, January 2018)
- Former Israeli Minister ‘Proud’ of Killing Most Palestinians (The Palestine Chronical, November 2017)
- ‘Can Gaza be thrown in the sea?’ asks Israeli politician (Middle East Monitor, August 2017)
- MK Oren Hazan, in yet another genocidal statement by Israeli apartheid parliamentarians (Ronnie Barkan, July 2017)
- Israeli minister says Palestinians are bringing a ‘third Nakba’ upon themselves (Jonathan Ofir, July 2017)
- A-G: ‘Torat Hamelech’ Authors Will Not Be Indicted (The Jerusalem Post, May 2012)
- Israel, Palestine, and the Poetics of Genocide (Mark LeVine and Eric Cheyfitz, May 2017)
- Israeli military chief backtracks from 1930s Germany comparison (The Guardian, May 2016)
- The Jewish Activist Behind the Black Lives Matter Platform Calling Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians ‘Genocide’ (Debra Nussbaum Cohen, August 2016)
- Video: Temple movement rabbi proselytizes for genocide (David Sheen, September 2015)
- Israeli president urges UN to set ‘red lines’ for genocide (i24News, 2015)
- Irish MP Richard Boyd Barrett Reads Out Genocidal Quotes from Israeli Ministers and Officials (The Electronic Intifada, June 2015)
- Bennett on CNN: Hamas is committing massive self-genocide to its women and children (CNN, July 2014)
- Boycotting Israel: the situation has changed and I have changed my mind too (Martin Shaw, August 2014)
- Israel and the language of genocide (Chris Doyle, August 2014)
- Operation Protective Edge, ethnic cleansing and the issue of genocide (Dr. Can Erimtan, August 2014)
- Israel’s War On Palestine: It’s Bad, But is it Genocide? (Charles Davis, 2014)
- How liberal Zionists enable Israel’s genocidal ambitions (The Electronic Intifada, 2014)
- Reply to Prof. Olmert: Incremental genocide is still genocide (Abdalhadi Alijla, 2014)
- Let’s Talk About Genocide: Inferring Israel’s Genocidal Intent (Tali Shapiro, 2014)
- Request to International Criminal Court for the initiation of an investigation into crimes committed and ongoing during and immediately before Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza (National Lawyers Guild, Center for Constitutional Rights, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, American Association of Jurists, Arab Lawyers Union, 2014)
- United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, still avoiding his responsibility towards the Palestinian people (Israel Genocide?, 2014)
- When Israeli denial of Palestinian existence becomes genocidal (Ilan Pappe, 2013)
- Palestine and Genocide Revisited (Martin Shaw, 2013)
- The Palestinian Genocide by Israel (MWC News, 2013)
- Israel’s environmental colonialism and eco-apartheid (Ben Lorber, 2012)
- Top Genocide Scholars Battle Over How To Characterize Israel’s Actions (The Jewish Daily Forward, 2011)
- It’s Genocide. Full Stop. (Michael Gillespie, 2009)
- Report of the Independent Fact Finding Committee On Gaza: No Safe Place. (For the Arab League of States, Chaired by Professor John Dugard, 2009)
- Top Israeli rabbis advocate genocide (Ali Abunimah, 2007)
- Genocide By Public Policy (Sam Bahour, 2004)
- Open letter to Netanyahu from massacre survivors’ legal team (Electronic Intifada, 2003)
- Migration of Eretz Yisrael Arabs between December 1, 1947 and June 1, 1948 (Intelligence Service (Arab Section), June 1948; translated by Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, 2019; original record’s source: Hashomer Hatzair (Yad Yaari) Archive, file 95-35.27(3))
This is terrible, but the UN is politically motivated, it will never push to prosecute Israel for anything!
Technically this isn’t a question, but we realise and feel your frustration, and think it’s a crucial point to address. The United Nations is indeed a politically motivated body, we just happen to think that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Just as there are entities pushing for Israel’s continued impunity, each and every one of us is an entity pushing for its accountability.
That’s why our number one goal is to mobilise you to take action to pressure the UN, and particularly the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, to investigate Israel for the possibility that it’s committing genocide against the Palestinian people.
But we don’t stop at civil action and investigation. We expect the International Criminal Court, that’s mandate covers war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, to take initiative. More than anyone else, other than the perpetrators themselves, the ICC and the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide have a responsibility to act when made aware of the massive crimes they’ve been entrusted to prevent.
So please go to our Take Action page and write a letter to the UN Adviser and ICC Prosecutor right now!