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Nicholas Woode-Smith | Israel is not committing genocide: a response to Mondli Makhanya

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Palestinians check the rubble of buildings that were destroyed following overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 27 March 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Palestinians check the rubble of buildings that were destroyed following overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 27 March 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Mohammed Abed/AFP

Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, no matter how unshakably convinced Mondli Makhanya may be of that popular fallacy.

Makhanya and other pushers of the genocide narrative are being highly irresponsible in their use of the loaded term, while falling hook, line and sinker for Hamas’ fabrications and misunderstandings of the Intenational Court of Justice ruling, which did not in any way prove that genocide is occurring.

Genocide is the intentional eradication of an ethnicity, race or religious group. It involves the mass slaughter of those people and the prevention of the proliferation of the group. The Holocaust was genocide as the Nazis intended to wipe out the Jewish people, using everything at their disposal to do so in a systematic fashion.

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