Throughout Israel’s long two-year war with Hamas, accusations of “genocide” have been loosely tossed at Israel from many sources, including United Nations officials and prominent world leaders. One recent example was the resolution of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), which turned out to be a shameful, secretive attempt by a small clique of antisemites within the organisation to dupe the world on false academic pretences. This carefree use of the charge of genocide against the Jewish state threatens to undermine the valued safeguards established in international law against this greatest of crimes, and also reveals the duplicitous motives of those who seek to malign Israel.

Genocide is rightly called the “crime of crimes.” It is defined in the UN’s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as acts committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” The central requirement is specific intent (dolus specialis) to eradicate a protected group simply for who they are.

This definition was formulated in the aftermath of the Holocaust, when the Nazi regime…

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Photo: IDF soldiers bring home Israeli hostage Andrey Kozlov rescused from central Gaza in 2024 (Credit-Ilia Yefimovich-picture-alliance-dpa-AP Images)