If Gaza is a genocide, then all war is a genocide. The term is being deliberately abused (or in Amnesty’s case, redefined) to take away Israel’s right to defend itself under the law of armed conflict. It won’t stop with Israel… The West’s enemies want to commit genocide freely and want to stop us from fighting back. All the last year has achieved is to corrupt the ICJ and ICC processes beyond repair, and render meaningless any future application of the Genocide Convention itself. I don’t describe 7th October as “genocidal” because the word has now lost all meaning. The last year has made “genocide” useless as a means of informed analysis and discourse.
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