Notable that historian Raza Segal calling Gaza actions a 'textbook case of genocide' is himself an Israeli, tho teaching in New Jersey USA
Some confusion over the term 'genocide', as it is commonly assumed this means only 'kill everyone of a race' ... but that is not the definition of the term per the 1948 United Nations declaration, as noted by Canada's national CBC news https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/genocide-gaza-debate-1.7042809
Genocide includes killing even PART of a group, targeted as a group Or also 'serious bodily or mental harm' to the group Or also 'inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group' Or also 'measures intended to prevent births within the group'
UN original document https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide
So Nazis were 'genocidal' even if intending to destroy Jews only in Europe or in their territories, and even if only wishing to make Jews homeless and so on
Israel claims the WW2 mass killing of German civilians by allied powers, is 'justifying precedent' for their destruction of Gaza... but those WW2 actions seem to have been 'genocidal' as well per UN definition
The targeted destruction of hospitals, mental terror destroying one's ability to live as a group in one's homeland, are also genocidal
From the CBC article above - "One key element is intent. Anisha Patel, a legal researcher with the group Law for Palestine says it has identified more than 400 instances "from all levels of the Israeli elite" expressing what the organization considers evidence of genocidal intent."
One element beyond the Israel-Gaza war -
On the UN definition, the activities of many societies, destroying the economic or mental abilities of young people to have children, is also genocidal ... elites genociding the peoples amidst whom they live
Notable that historian Raza Segal calling Gaza actions a 'textbook case of genocide' is himself an Israeli, tho teaching in New Jersey USA
ReplyDeleteSome confusion over the term 'genocide', as it is commonly assumed this means only 'kill everyone of a race' ... but that is not the definition of the term per the 1948 United Nations declaration, as noted by Canada's national CBC news
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/genocide-gaza-debate-1.7042809
Genocide includes killing even PART of a group, targeted as a group
Or also 'serious bodily or mental harm' to the group
Or also 'inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group'
Or also 'measures intended to prevent births within the group'
UN original document
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide
So Nazis were 'genocidal' even if intending to destroy Jews only in Europe or in their territories, and even if only wishing to make Jews homeless and so on
Israel claims the WW2 mass killing of German civilians by allied powers, is 'justifying precedent' for their destruction of Gaza... but those WW2 actions seem to have been 'genocidal' as well per UN definition
The targeted destruction of hospitals, mental terror destroying one's ability to live as a group in one's homeland, are also genocidal
From the CBC article above -
"One key element is intent. Anisha Patel, a legal researcher with the group Law for Palestine says it has identified more than 400 instances "from all levels of the Israeli elite" expressing what the organization considers evidence of genocidal intent."
One element beyond the Israel-Gaza war -
On the UN definition, the activities of many societies, destroying the economic or mental abilities of young people to have children, is also genocidal ... elites genociding the peoples amidst whom they live