Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

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An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association have backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime.
Eighty-six per cent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in article II of the United Nations convention for the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (1948).”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-worlds-top-scholars-on-the-say

Yes. That one.
Honestly that post was one of the worst I've read on here.

I agree. Blatant Hamas propaganda.

Hope it gets left up.

So now MSF are Hamas too?

msf.org.uk/article/gaza-msf-survey-shows-almost-half-people-killed-are-children

I don't think I saw that post or that poster. I haven't been actively on MN for very long - few months maybe.

I regret any offence given honestly.
I think the murder of the Bibas children is awful. No child should be murdered, it's abhorrent.

What I object to is caring about children's deaths based on their ethnicity and usefulness in making your point. This thread is full of justification and rationalising for the murder of children. It also contains significant doubt given to the death of Hind Rajab despite numerous evidence and independent investigations. Why is questioning the narrative of this death acceptable but questioning whether Israel told the truth in how the Bibas children died not acceptable?
It is contested how they died and I don't believe either Hamas or Israel and there is no independent evidence. It is very useful to Israel to claim they were strangled but there hasn't been any independent verification of this evidence so im not gojng to believe it without evidence. It doesn't make sense to me why Hamas would kill them, it's horrendous but they are simply far more valuable to them alive than dead.

I find bringing the death up of the Bibas children while ignoring the pain of each one of those thousands and thousands of deaths and supporting justifications or excuses for them to be awful and I believe frankly racist.

I do admit that I don't believe Israel. I have seen too much evidence of lies to believe they have any remaining credibility. However I admire and believe in a lot of Israelis such as Ilan Pappe, Ras Segul, the Israelis involved in Breaking the Silence etc.

I am biased but we all are clearly.

The poster I'm referring to was a poster made by Hamas. The poster accused Israel of killing the Bibas children. Another member posted it above. Its hideous. You repeated the propaganda on the poster Hamas made.

I simply don't understand how we got to a place where in 2 separate conflicting narratives, one from a terrorist organization who filmed themselves commiting the most heinous acts at a party, the other carrying out a brutal war against those terrorists, out of those 2 narratives, you find the terrorist narrative the most credible. Despite everything Hamas did that day.

I actually think you're probably just a normal, nice mum like me. But I cannot fathom how we've come to this place.

Yes. We're all biased. But I can still look at all of what Israel is and find lots of positives. I cant find any positives of Hamas.

Yet still, day after day, hatred for Israel, crickets on Hamas. Blame for Israel, no blame for Hamas. Calls for Israel to ceasefire , no calls for Hamas to surrender so it can all stop.

I dont understand.

You regret offence but make the same allegations?

How on earth can you say it makes no sense for Hamas to kill them? On what evidence would you base that assertion? They killed over 1200 people on 7 October. They murdered captive hostages. They kill their own people with no care. They have vowed to repeat 7 October. Exactly what part of genocidal death cult do you not understand?

How is bringing up the murder of the Bibas children racist?

Hamas killed 1,200 people on October 7th a hideous crime, Israel in response has killed 60,000 plus Palestinians mainly civilians, civilians corralled into small areas, crammed into tents and currently also being starved, people don’t agree with collective punishment, people do not like seeing children (approximately 20, 000 killed by Israel now) shredded by massive bombs. How are you surprised ?

O dear. I have been called many things but never hamas. I can assure you I am not hamas and neither are Medicins Sans Frontiers, but I can see that some prefer to believe what is convenient to believe. I am one of many thousands of regular mums who find the occupation and genocide in Gaza utterly appalling. My faith in humanity. is at crisis point if not entirely broken by the footage I see each day. It is unbearable to watch yet wrong to look away. I contributed to this thread in an attempt to shed some light on why the world has declared this a genocide - it is not a war.
Enough now.

Still waiting for that source.... are you going to post it?

You must spend a lot of your life walking around with a disgusted look on your face then 🇵🇸

How do you know what the ethnicity is of people who post on here?

You think only white people support Israel and dare to insinuate that others are racist?

You talk of the cold blooded murder of a baby and toddler who were taken as ‘prisoners of war’ with their terrified mother trying to shield them from terrorists who were committing horrific atrocities all around her as being ‘wheeled out’ and accuse people of being fine with the murder of supposedly 20,000 children because they might have a bit of sense and logic not to believe a terrorist organisation’s propaganda machine?

I the saying ‘every accusation is a confession’ might apply here.

Who's fine with the death of 20,000 children? I've never, ever heard anyone on here say that.

However. You just used the term 'wheeled out' to describe talking about the Bibas children. Words fail me. You absolutely disgust me.

Apologies mumsnet for the personal insult, I understand my post must be deleted, but sometimes these things must be said.

Well not really because I don’t see them in my town, only in videos of useful idiots making absolute fools of themselves.

My area is full of England and Union Jack flags at the moment which makes me smile 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

Absolutely. Noone is fine with the death of 20,000 children. Apart from Hamas of course.

The Israeli government are more than fine with the death of thousands of Palestinian children. You should hear how their politicians speak of them.

Apparently they’re smashing up Gaza city as we speak. No wonder they refused to accept that Hamas wants a deal. Ah well. They always wanted the land. They’ve got it now.

Got any quotes from Israeli government officials about Palestinian children as opposed to Hamas?

More false hyperbole.

Oh, they did, hun.

On the second most watched TV channel in Israel they call those dead children terrosists and celebrate their deaths. Rabbi Eliyahu Mali said The Torah is saying: ‘You shall not let a soul remain alive’… Today he’s a baby, tomorrow he’s a boy, tomorrow he’s a warrior.” Former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin stated explicitly: “Every child, every infant in Gaza is an enemy… the baby you feed with milk today will slaughter your children in fifteen years.” There was that lovely Israeli Knesset member Meirav Ben Ari who said The children of Gaza have brought this on themselves.

I don't know where that poster is getting their info from but she couldn't be more wrong, from elected Israeli politicians to their religious leaders to the TV stations Israelis choose to watch there are loads of examples of people who think the children of Gaza deserve everything that they have gotten and more.

Im sure its the same poster who gets their information from Israeli channel 12 - I'm sure they are quite aware of the vile hate spurned on there.

Does this include hamas making fatality s of there own people in gaza , maybe we need more correct data not from hamas