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Words matter: "Ethnic cleansing" is a term first used by perpetrators to downplay genocidal acts, and it’s not recognized as a crime in international law. Using this language can obscure atrocities that often meet the threshold for genocide or crimes against humanity. Instead, let’s call these acts by their rightful names—forced displacement, murder, rape—and confront the gravity of these crimes. Take a step toward genocide prevention: Refrain from using the term "ethnic cleansing." 🧵Image
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Sep 20, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security welcomes the publication of the 72-page report (A/HRC/60/CRP.3) by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel (COI), published on 16 September 2025, which concludes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. 🧵

With the publication of this report, all states are now required by the Genocide Convention to do everything in their power to stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. There are no more excuses for inaction.

Importantly, the report finds extensive evidence of the Israeli government’s ‘specific intent’ (Dolus Specialis) for genocide required by conventional legal interpretations of the Genocide Convention. Navi Pillay, head of the COI, told journalists: “The commission concludes that statements made by Israeli authorities are direct evidence of genocidal intent … genocidal intent was the only reasonable inference that can be drawn from the totality of the evidence”.

It is now up to the nations of the world to take action to stop this genocide, as required by international law. We urge that this report be followed by concrete steps, which have been strikingly absent up to this moment. Israel’s allies must place pressure on Israel to immediately cease its attacks on Gaza and end the blockade. If they do not, or if Israel refuses, we call on the UN General Assembly to use the Uniting for Peace resolution to call for an armed humanitarian intervention into Gaza to restore peace and security and ensure the delivery of much needed humanitarian aid.

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Aug 20, 2025
The @LemkinInstitute reminds the world that forced expulsion almost always is part of a genocidal process, undertaken with genocidal aims.

It is also a crime against humanity and a war crime. Only under very narrow circumstances, when a population is removed for its own safety during a conflict, is it legal. And in such a case it must be CLEARLY TEMPORARY.

In the case of Israel's planned forced displacement of Palestinians -- starting with Gaza -- it is most definitely genocide and, as in other cases of genocide, it is part of an imperialist, expansionist plan, in this case for 'Greater Israel.'

Forced displacement was used in the 'New World' genocides, the Herero Genocide, the Armenian Genocide, many of Stalin's genocides, the Holocaust, the Nakba, the Cambodian Genocide, the Bosnian Genocide, the Darfur Genocide, the Rohingya Genocide, the Uyghur Genocide, the Artsakh Genocide, among others, and now it is being used again in Palestine. It is an old technique of genocide, recognized by Raphael Lemkin, the 'father' of the Genocide Convention, as an integral part of the genocidal process.

Any support for forced displacement makes one complicit in the crime.

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Apr 27, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security is dismayed by the public and official legitimation, justification, and endorsement of genocide by the United States and its allies.

Read Part I in a series on Axes of Genocide across the globe on our website:

Statement highlights 🧵bit.ly/AxisGenocide1Image
Over the past two years, the world has witnessed a United States willing to do the dirty work of genocidal allies. The @JoeBiden Administration supported Azerbaijan’s genocide against the people of Artsakh and Israel’s genocide against the people of Palestine, subjecting the entire world to common forms of genocide denialism that are usually reserved for direct perpetrators.

@AzerbaijanMFA @IsraeliPM @IDF @StateDept #GazaGenocide #genocide #ArtsakhGenocide
While the Administrations of Presidents @JoeBiden and @realDonaldTrump differ in their approach to Russia, their approach to Azerbaijan and Israel is fundamentally the same. The Trump Administration, by caving to President Vladimir Putin’s demands in Ukraine, has brought U.S. Russia policy in line with the U.S.'s established support for expansionist states with genocidal aims.

#UkraineRussiaWar #GazaGenocide @AzerbaijanMFA @StateDept @MFA_Ukraine @DefenceU
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Jul 8, 2024
We at the Lemkin Institute are dismayed and angered by the repressive police responses to widespread discontent in democratic nations across the globe. We are particularly concerned by the apparent weapons and tactical exchanges happening between Israel, the United States, India, Europe, and the South Caucasus in building authoritarian police forces that are quickly eroding representative institutions and democratic values.

Police violence is unacceptable. Citizens of countries around the globe should have their to assembly and freedom of speech protected; police forces should defend these rights rather than act as a state tool to crush popular discontent. In particular, recent incidents in the United States, Georgia, Armenia, Europe, and India have been particularly concerning.

As we have previously shown support for student protests around the world, we reiterate that genocide prevention cannot exist without freedom of speech and assembly. The human rights to expression, assembly, and protest are fundamental to inclusive and equitable societies. These rights empower individuals and communities to speak out against injustices and demand accountability from their governments.

We at the Lemkin Institute reiterate our commitment to standing in solidarity with those protesting injustice, discrimination, political oppression, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

To read the full statement, visit:

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@narendramodi @OmbudsArmenia @oscepa @POTUS @NikolPashinyan @USAID @StateDept @usembarmenia @AraratMirzoyan @MFAofArmenia @TheJusticeDept @DHSgov @StateEUR @MIAofGeorgia @MichaelCJT @OlofBSkoog @volker_turklemkininstitute.com/statements-new…Image
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Apr 30, 2024
In 2023, in the wake of Hamas’ unprecedented military operation against Israel on October 7, Israel began a systematic campaign of genocide against Palestinian civilians living in the West Bank and Gaza. By the end of 2023, the death toll of Palestinians in Gaza had surpassed 22,000 with more than 57,000 injured. The Lemkin Institute has issued a timeline of the Israel-Palestine situation and multiple genocide alerts and statements.

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Feb 14, 2024
As Israel attacks #Rafah, the Gaza city where an estimated 1.3 million Palestinians are seeking refuge, most of them internally displaced, the @LemkinInstitute reiterates that the Biden Administration (@POTUS) is complicit in genocide and must take immediate steps to prevent further destruction, loss of life, and displacement in Gaza and the West Bank.

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The @LemkinInstitute further notes that the administration’s decision to withhold promised
funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (@UNRWA), the largest and most
active UN agency in the Gaza Strip, risks placing the administration in the position of being an
active perpetrator of genocide.
In light of this unequivocal support for Israel, which enables Israel’s genocide, as well as President Biden’s apparent ongoing unwillingness to change course or reign in the Israeli state, we urge all US officials critical of the Biden administration’s policy towards Israel to resign, lest they risk further complicity in this high crime. We applaud Josh Paul and @CraigMokhiber for their resignations from the US State Department (@StateDept) and the United Nations (@UN) respectively early on in the conflict. We extend the same call to officials in other states actively supporting Israel and/or withholding UNRWA funding. Multiple resignations would be an unprecedented act of civic courage and genocide prevention.
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