Jews Against Genocide stand with Movement for Black Lives, including the use of the word ‘Genocide’

Please TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW and send your letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.

Much ado was made about M4BL’s use of the word ‘genocide’, referring to Israel’s systematic policies against the Palestinian people. We’d like to fully address this very serious charge as we believe it to be true, and have, ourselves, clearly stated so in the past . We clarify that the crime of genocide has a legal definition within international law, to which we strictly refer in our argument…

It is our opinion that there is more than sufficient evidence, provided by Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations, attesting to violations, on a mass scale, which constitute at least the first three acts of genocide mentioned in Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

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Jewish MP, Siamak Moresadeq, deplores Gaza situation as genocide, organized crimes

Tehran, Aug 11, IRNA – Representative of the Jewish Community at the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Siamak Moresadeq on Monday decried the ongoing situation in Gaza Strip as organized crime and genocide against a nation and its campaign to achieve freedom and self-determination.

… He called on academic circles inside and outside Iran to ˈform a campaign calling for expelling the Zionist regime from the United Nations and other international bodies.ˈ Moresadeq criticized performance of the United Nations secretary-general in reaction to the human tragedy underway in Gaza since July 8 and said that it seemed that the UN was ˈformed to cover up crimes of the Zionist regime.ˈ

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“We hope to show Israel, and the world, the absurd reality of using the memory of one genocide to justify another.”

We, Jews Against Genocide, came to Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial of the genocide committed against Jews, to honor the Palestinian children who are dying in a genocide committed by Jews.

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We brought dolls to symbolise the children of Gaza, and tried to bring a glimpse of the horror that Gazan’s face, to Israel’s doorstep. We hope to show Israel, and the world, the absurd reality of using the memory of one genocide to justify another.

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TAKE ACTION now and write a letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. Make sure to post a copy of the letter in our comments as well, so we can publish it.