Thread by @LemkinInstitute

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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