"Amnesty International, an organization with a long history of anti-Israeli activism, recently released a report accusing the Jewish state of committing genocide, with Human Rights Watch jumping on the bandwagon with its own report to be released Thursday. These baseless claims are yet another example of organizations redefining legal terms to suit their accusations against Israel.
Like its previous unfounded claims, Amnesty’s genocide accusation distorts both the facts and the law for the sake of sensational headlines. Consider the prevailing definition of 'genocidal intent' in international law. In 2007, the International Court of Justice found in Bosnia v. Serbia that such intent can only be established when it is the only plausible inference to be drawn from a nation’s pattern of conduct; the court reaffirmed this standard in Croatia v. Serbia (2015). No reasonable observer could argue that Israel’s military actions—directed against Hamas, a terrorist organization explicitly dedicated to the Jewish state’s destruction—constitute genocide under this prevailing standard.
But Amnesty had pre-determined that Israel was guilty, so it simply dismissed international law. 'Amnesty International considers this an overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence,' the report notes, 'and one that would effectively preclude a finding of genocide in the context of an armed conflict.'
The real reason the ICJ’s definition precludes a finding of genocide in Israel’s armed conflict is because there is in reality no genocide. One need not look all the way back to the Holocaust to see that there can be a genocide in the context of an armed conflict. In the early 2000s, for example, the Sudanese government armed Arab militia groups to help them ethnically cleanse African groups in the Darfur region through a campaign of mass murder, rape, pillaging, displacement, and persecution, based on the victims’ race, ethnicity, and religion. Contrast this with Israel, which possesses the military capability to destroy Gaza entirely but has taken extraordinary measures to minimize harm to civilians, even as it fights an enemy that deliberately endangers its own people."
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