The word genocide is no longer a matter of debate when it comes to Gaza. What was once dismissed as an exaggeration shouted at protests is now being echoed by some of the world’s leading human rights organisations, United Nations experts and genocide scholars. The International Association of Genocide Scholars, the UN Commission of Inquiry and countless local and international NGOs have all concluded that Israel’s assault on Gaza fulfils the definition of genocide under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the treaty that legally defines and prohibits genocide.

This is not the view of a handful of activists but of an overwhelming body of evidence and expert opinion. Israel may try to spin, deny or deflect, but it cannot escape the fact that histor

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