The Scholars of Genocide Expert Group is a collective of Genocide Studies academics working to elevate genocide discourse and stop the genocide in Palestine.
Today's ICJ ruling embodies a historical and watershed moment. It is a vindication of what Palestinians, international law scholars, and genocide experts have been insisting upon for months; Israel's conduct against Palestinians is blatantly genocidal and must be stopped.
Many Expert Group members were proud to join 50+ scholars of the Holocaust,
#genocide
, and mass violence in this statement calling on the international community to take concerted action to prevent genocide in
#Palestine
.
A critical article by
@GenocideExperts
members Raz Segal and
@pennyjgreen
, highlighting
@Law4Palestine
's database of more than 500 statements by Israel expressing genocidal intent. . Some key quotes:
Rector Stella Maris had good reason to describe
#Israel
's actions in
#Palestine
as a
#genocide
, both in the immediate sense and as in describing a broader historical process. The Scholars of Genocide Expert Group was proud to issue this letter in her defense.
“words matter” as you say Prof Sally Mapstone
@univofstandrews
“occupation”, apartheid” and “genocide” have been used by Rector Stella Maris with absolute justification in a relation to Israel’s structures of oppression say Scholars of Genocide Expert Group
@Law4Palestine
This ruling triggers third state obligations to prevent the commission of genocidal acts.
@POTUS
and others are now on further notice that their arming of the Israeli military could lead to legal complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.
@POTUS
As genocide experts, we know that the ICJ's ruling wasn't necessary to describe Israel's conduct against the Palestinian people as genocidal; Israel's structural orientation as a settler colony requires the displacement or destruction of the indigenous population, Palestinians.
It is important to note this ruling holds it is plausible the Court will find that Israel is committing genocide. A final ruling on the merits will take years, but the ICJ deemed the abundant evidence presented by South Africa sufficient to make an initial determination.
The ICJ handed Israel an unprecedented legal and political loss, undermining the Israel exception in the application of international law. While Israel labels this war a just retaliation against Hamas, the ICJ has made clear that the Israeli gov’s conduct is facially genocidal.
@POTUS
In rendering their decision, the ICJ made clear the strength of evidence suggesting Israeli leadership meets the intent requirement for the crime of genocide. Members of our group have pointed out the unusually explicitly of Israel’s genocidal rhetoric:
A critical article by
@GenocideExperts
members Raz Segal and
@pennyjgreen
, highlighting
@Law4Palestine
's database of more than 500 statements by Israel expressing genocidal intent. . Some key quotes:
@GenocideExperts
will be hosting our first public roundtable discussion, in collaboration w/
@Law4Palestine
, Wed. at 9 PM Jerusalem (2 PM EST). Please tune in on
@Law4Palestine
's Youtube channel for a discussion on the legal/sociolegal frameworks of genocide and intl law.
JUST RELEASED: L4P and partners submit legal analysis to the ICC establishing that the Israeli War Cabinet is committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and should be investigated under the Rome Statute of the ICC.
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@GenocideExperts
will be hosting our first public roundtable discussion, in collaboration w/
@Law4Palestine
, Wed. at 9 PM Jerusalem (2 PM EST). Please tune in on
@Law4Palestine
's Youtube channel for a discussion on the legal/sociolegal frameworks of genocide and intl law.
@pennyjgreen
@Law4Palestine
"They have dehumanised Palestinians in their rhetoric, and painted the population in Gaza, as a whole, as Israel’s enemy..."
Israel's attempt to destroy the Palestinian people has stretched into wanton murders of Gazan academics and the bombing of universities, libraries, and archives. We mourn yesterday's killing of brilliant scholar and poet Refaat Alareer (
@itranslate123
). 1/2
They murdered Refaat yesterday. Hundreds of academics, university staff and students have also been murdered in Gaza. The British Committee for the Universities of Palestine have written to the Vice Chancellor of every university in the UK questioning their continued silence.
@itranslate123
Israel's attempt to erase evidence of Palestinian life featured prominently during the Nakba, the destruction of PLO libraries, archives, and killings of researchers in Beirut, and now in this unfolding genocide. All the while, Western academic institutions remain silent. 2/2
@pennyjgreen
@Law4Palestine
"Israel’s explicit language of genocide and its unprecedented assault on Gaza should mark the end of its impunity in the international legal system and usher in a new stage in the struggle to stop the violence, save the Palestinians of Gaza, and end Israeli settler colonialism."
@pennyjgreen
@Law4Palestine
"Perpetrators of genocide rarely express their intentions in direct and explicit ways, so courts are left to infer such intent through an analysis of state actions or leaked memoranda."
@pennyjgreen
@Law4Palestine
"In the case of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, however, as the Law for Palestine database shows, people with command authority have been making genocidal statements repeatedly over the past three months."