“Many reputable organisations” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Which organisations? Because if you’re citing the UN, it’s worth knowing that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, 57 member states coordinating votes together, is one of the most powerful blocs in the General Assembly. That’s why Israel is the most sanctioned country in UN history while actual genocides elsewhere barely get a mention. The ICJ, Amnesty and HRW have the same problem: who staffs them, who funds them and what do they already believe before they start? These aren’t neutral bodies handing down impartial verdicts.
And the numbers matter. There are 1.8 billion Muslims in the world and 15 million Jews. Even a small proportion holding hostile views toward Israel, layered on top of antisemitism that has been embedded in cultures and political traditions for centuries, produces an enormous amount of built-in hostility that shapes institutions and media coverage before anyone has looked at the facts.
On the genocide charge specifically… the civilian to combatant death ratio in Gaza is estimated at around 1.5 to 1. In most urban warfare historically it’s closer to 9 to 1. Israel dropped leaflets, made phone calls, sent text messages and created evacuation corridors. Hamas blocked civilians from leaving, stored weapons in hospitals and schools and used its own population as a shield because dead civilians were more useful to it than live ones.
If Israel wanted to destroy the Gazan people it did a remarkably poor job of it given the firepower at its disposal. Genocide requires intent to destroy a people. The evidence points the other way.
Calling this genocide while ignoring what started it, who is deliberately prolonging it and who actually treats Gazan lives as expendable isn’t moral clarity. I don’t have to like specific politicians (Trump is an odious man) but, again, I know who the baddies are in this conflict and it’s not Israel and America.