Israel Committing 'Textbook Case of Genocide,' Holocaust Historian Says

It's heartbreaking seeing shell shocked children covered in dust and blood or parents weeping for their dead kids. There is no sanctuary for these people. Then Israelis call them "human animals" while claiming to be the "most moral army in the world" without any sense of shame. They are depraved.

Yes, its quite obvious to everyone that has no power in the world.

The only thing I think of with this conflict is the Doctor Who speech on war:

Because it's not a game, Kate. This is a scale model of war. Every war ever fought right there in front of you. Because it's always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die. You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they're always going to have to do from the very beginning -- sit down and talk! 

This is the best summary I could come up with:

An Israeli historian and Holocaust scholar has called how Israel is treating Palestinians in Gaza "a textbook case of genocide."

Israel's official account on X, formerly known as Twitter, said: "Unlike the barbaric enemy we are fighting, we do everything we can to keep innocent civilians safe."

"This dehumanizing language is clearly calculated to justify the wide scale destruction of Palestinian lives; the assertion of 'evil,' in its absolutism, elides distinctions between Hamas militants and Gazan civilians, and occludes the broader context of colonization and occupation," he wrote.

that the attack by Hamas was "a horrendous war crime," but using the term "evil" to describe the militant group is to "decontextualize" and "enhance the widespread fantasies of Israelis today that they're fighting Nazis."

He referred to a recent television interview where former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett lashed out at an anchor for asking about the Palestinian civilians suffering in Gaza by declaring, "We're fighting Nazis."

There is a "long history" of this "shameful use of Holocaust memory, which Israeli politicians have used to justify, rationalize, deny, distort, disavow mass violence against Palestinians," Segal said.

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How quickly we forget history. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself come a villain.

I'm really impressed that Newsweek would publish thi.

The people in charge of both sides are evil.
Picking sides in this fight is like
    picking sides in fucking Game of Thrones.

As they have been for decades now

Well, this jewish, israeli (born, raised, and educated) holocaust professor, with decades of experience and many titles under his belt acquired specifically in the field of genocide and the Holocaust hasn't seen what the armchair historians on the internet have to say.

Help a Palestinian surgeon get out of Rafah.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-dr-salem-evacuate-gaza

The gaslighting just won't stop. Terrorists invaded Israel with the explicit purpose to commit genocide against jews, any attempt to fight back against that is criticized. A huge chunk of the whole world just seems to feel like Israel "deserved it", and they should just take it lying down.

How should they react to Hamas' desire to exterminate them?

I wonder if Isreal has gas chambers...I'd not be surprised.

historian says

Can we please stop using these nonsensical claims? What historian? A Reddit armchair hero? Can you please get an actual known historian with a name?

Having said that, Israel has been committing genocidal acts for decades now. What Hamas did is awful and despicable, but it's a proverbial bloody nose they dealt to Israel in comparison.

Religious extremism in Israel is to blame for this, IMHO. They claim that their gods says it's okay that they steal houses, the Israeli government acts as if it doesn't happen. Palestinians then protest this, get arrested, tortured or shot. Kids throw stones, get shot. Israëli government acts as if their nose bleeds.

Then they hit back hard, and now their nose IS bleeding and everybody is "poor Israelis"

No. I feel for the families that have their loved ones killed and kidnapped, I do, and Hamas must be stopped. However, we can't simply blame Hamas and completely ignore what Israel is doing right now and more importantly, what it's been doing for the past 60 years.

It. Has. To. Stop.

Is that why Palestinian and Israeli Arab population numbers keep increasing?

Gazan population doubles in 2 decades: help! There's a genocide!

What the jews got was the purposeful death of innocent civilians. Just watch jewish numbers in the world before and after WW2. What gazans get is a war. Yes, civilians die in wars, and that's an awful thing. Israel should've done everything to prevent this war, but didn't. Bibi has a lot to answer.

But comparing the Holocaust to gaza is just absurd. You can take a side in a conflict without baseless accusations, Israel has already a lot to answer to. But purposefully killing civilians? We've yet to see that from Israel, only from Hamas...