Haaretz, September 1 2025: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, Scholars' Association Says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring: "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)."
The 1948 UN Genocide Convention, adopted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany, defines genocide as crimes committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such."
And on July 28, 2025, Israeli human rights groups already published their reports on Israel's genocidal war on Gaza:
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem:
July 2025 Report: Our Genocide
And Physicians for Human Rights, Israel:
July 2025 Position Paper: Destruction of Conditions of Life: A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide
never again rolling tanks (n)ever again bomber after bomber
each bombed-out house:
an album with no photos
but with people
living, wounded and dead
pressed between its pages
anything new
under Gaza's smeared sun?
smoky rubble
beyond smoky rubble, and yet
again smoky rubble
"Relocation Plan"
summer odors ...
nowhere to go, no way
to get pieces of bread
ghost town
a Gazan's mind a labyrinth
of dead bodies
another day
another refugee tent
another baby
with loose skin over bone
starves to death with eyes open
word after word
squeezed out of the PM's mouth
in broad daylight
this daily "banality"
of dying, of death in Gaza
(FYI: L4 alludes to Jewish philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt's ground-breaking book, , Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil)
To conclude today's "Special Feature" post, I would like to share with you the latest entry of Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXII: "famine and a food aid truck"
mud-stained bodies
on sweat-drenched bodies on bodies
on a food aid truck
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXIII: "mind view"
Gazan girl's mind view:
mostly smoke and ruins
yet her lifeworld
still bears death and rebirth
on the wings of a dream
