Israel anklagas dagligen för folkmord - oftast av människor som inte vet vad som är kriterierna för folkmord men också av sådana som borde veta bättre.
Här en artikel om det öppna brev med över 6000 underskrifter, många av dem experter på området, som säger att anklagelserna om folkmord är en lögn.
Prominent scholars, legal experts among 6,000 signatories to letter rejecting Gaza genocide charge
“The bitter irony is that Israel, home to half the world’s Jews, is the only country to face a sustained war of attempted genocide – from its inception in 1948 until today,” the letter states.
Framstående akademiker, juridiska experter och historiker finns bland de drygt 6 000 personer som undertecknat ett öppet brev – offentliggjort tidigare denna månad – där anklagelsen om att Israel begått folkmord i Gaza avfärdas som en ”blodsanklagelse”. Brevet, som vid lanseringen hade fler än 5 000 undertecknare och senare passerade 6 000, gör gällande att anklagelsen om folkmord motsägs av Israels faktiska agerande i kriget och att den har utnyttjats som en förevändning för att utesluta och angripa judar världen över.
Prominent scholars who signed the letter include Harvard professor and public intellectual Steven Pinker. Other Harvard-affiliated signatories include Harvard Law professor Jesse Fried and visiting scholar Anat Alon-Beck, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University.
Other notable scholars who signed on include historian Niall Ferguson, Israeli historian Benny Morris, Holocaust historian and former US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, Tel Aviv University professor emerita and former Yad Vashem chief historian Dina Porat, historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore, UCLA professor Judea Pearl, and Brandeis University professor emeritus Jonathan Sarna.
Prominent legal figures include former Canadian justice minister and attorney general Irwin Cotler, Cornell Law professor Robert Hockett, Jeffrey Mausner, a former prosecutor with the US Justice Department’s Nazi War Crimes Unit, and Eugene Kontorovich, a professor of law at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School and director of its Center for the Middle East and International Law.
“The genocide libel is a case study in the longstanding – and intensified post-October 7th – historical, moral, legal and normative inversions of fact, law and history,” Cotler said in a statement cited by CCFP.
Political signatories include former UK prime minister Boris Johnson, Iraqi-born former UK cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi, and former US secretary of veterans affairs Robert Wilkie, among others.
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