This will be a response to a Professor Emeritus of International Relations. I would reply to him directly, but i don't want him to block me in the middle of this. I will certainly be posting this in reply to him when im done though. I want to thank him, because i have had so much of this written out already and kept putting off posting it.

It’s honestly wild that someone who calls himself a Professor Emeritus of International Relations is out here butchering the basics of international humanitarian law like a first-year who skimmed the syllabus five minutes before class. If any of his former students are watching this, you deserve a refund, because what he’s arguing isn’t just wrong, it’s the exact opposite of what the Geneva Conventions, the Rome Statute, and the Genocide Convention actually say.

Every single point he makes here collapses the moment you apply the actual legal standards instead of whatever political fanfiction he’s working from. He misdefines protected groups, misunderstands intent, confuses forced evacuation with lawful civilian protection, invents obligations that don’t exist, ignores the ICJ’s rulings, and treats mass civilian death as a footnote.

So let’s go ahead and unpack why his entire thread reads less like the work of an international relations scholar and more like someone desperately trying to carve loopholes into genocide law so that a state they support can keep violating it.


Debunking a “Professor Emeritus” Who Somehow Forgot Genocide Law 101

“Civilian objects lose protected status.”

No, Professor. That’s not how distinction works.

A civilian object only loses protection if it is being actively used for military purposes, and even then proportionality still applies.

But Israel has:

bombed every water plant,

bombed every university,

bombed aid convoys, bread lines, refugee tents, hospitals, and shelters after being told their coordinates.

Not one of those loses protected status just because Israel says so.

When you destroy all life-sustaining infrastructure, not dual-use facilities, that is one of the clearest markers of genocidal intent under Article II(c):

“Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.”

This is not about “losing protected status.” It’s the systematic removal of the ability of Palestinians to live.

Hollywood as a Battlefield

Hollywood is not just “entertainment.” It is a global propaganda engine that manufactures emotions, who we fear, who we mourn, who we see as fully human, and who is disposable. For Arabs and Muslims, Hollywood has been a 100-year smear campaign. The Arab/Muslim on screen is overwhelmingly a terrorist, fanatic, oil-hoarding sheikh, oppressed woman, refugee burden, or background extra whose main purpose is to die so that white, usually American or Israeli, protagonists can complete their moral journey (Shaheen, 2001, 2008; Shaheen, 2007; Alhassen, 2018; USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, 2021).

This didn’t emerge out of thin air. It sits at the intersection of:

Europe’s long history of Orientalism and anti-Arab racism (Said, 1978/2014)

U.S. empire and the Pentagon’s PR needs (Mecheri et al., 2022; Project on Government Oversight, 2019)

Zionist efforts to normalize Israel and demonize Palestinians (Baroud, 2022; Shaw & Goodman, 2022)

A profit-driven studio system that sells fear very well (Shaheen, 2001; Alhassen, 2018)

The result is a pipeline: Israel and the U.S. manufacture enemies; Hollywood supplies the imagery; the public absorbs it as “common sense” (Alhassen, 2018; Qamar et al., 2024; Mecheri et al., 2022).

Jack Shaheen spent decades cataloguing this system. In Reel Bad Arabs, he analyzed more than 1,000 films. He found that the vast majority depicted Arabs as villains, buffoons, or threats, with almost no fully human, ordinary Arab lives represented at all (Shaheen, 2001). Edward Said provided us with the theoretical framework to understand why: the “Orient” had to be perceived as inferior, backward, and menacing, so that Western domination could be narrated as benevolent and necessary (Said, 1978/2014).

Zionism slots neatly into this older Western script. Suppose the Palestinians and the Arabs are already coded as barbaric. In that case, the Zionist project can present itself as the enlightened West’s outpost, “a villa in the jungle,” as Israeli leaders like to put it. Hollywood then becomes the jungle’s cartographer (Baroud, 2022; Shaw & Goodman, 2022).

How the West Learned to Hate Arabs: Orientalism Before Zionism

Europe was producing Islamophobic and anti-Arab fantasies long before Herzl dreamed of a Jewish state in Palestine. Orientalist paintings, travelogues, novels, and early colonial photography portrayed Arabs and Muslims as irrational, hypersexual, cruel, and incapable of self-rule (Said, 1978/2014). Said showed how these portrayals weren’t random prejudice; they were embedded in imperial policy. The “Orient” was constructed as everything Europe was not: lazy versus industrious, despotic versus democratic, fanatical versus rational. Consequently, colonization appeared as charity rather than theft (Said, 1978/2014).

Early cinema inherited this visual language. Silent films like The Sheik (1921) leaned into Orientalist fantasies: Arab men as dangerous seducers, Arab lands as exotic playgrounds for Western adventure, Arab women as either veiled, passive victims or erotic objects for Western men (Shaheen, 2001; Alhassen, 2018). The Arab was already “other” before Zionism appeared on screen.

However, Zionism weaponized this pre-existing racism. If Arabs are uncivilized and prone to violence, then Palestinian resistance to colonization can be framed as irrational hatred rather than a predictable response to dispossession (Baroud, 2022; Shaw & Goodman, 2022). Hollywood didn’t invent that logic; it amplified it and wrapped it in Technicolor.

Zionism Arrives in Hollywood: Writing Israel into the American Myth

Once Israel was founded on the ruins of Palestine in 1948, Zionist organizations quickly recognized Hollywood’s value. They needed Americans to see Israel not as a colonial project but as a plucky little democracy surrounded by irrational Arab hordes. The easiest way to do that was to merge Israel’s story with America’s own: pioneers, frontier, “making the desert bloom.” Settler recognizes settler (Baroud, 2022; Shaw & Goodman, 2022).

Historical work on Hollywood–Israel relations shows that by the mid-20th century:

Zionist activists and communal organizations were cultivating relationships with studio heads, writers, and stars (Shaw & Goodman, 2022).

Israeli officials were directly involved in shaping certain film projects (Shaw & Goodman, 2022; Fahmy, 2022).

Palestinian presence, historical or contemporary, was almost totally erased from mainstream cinema narratives about Israel (Baroud, 2022; Fahmy, 2022).

The film that crystallizes this is Exodus (1960). Based on Leon Uris’s novel, it presents Zionist militias as noble freedom fighters and Palestinians as either invisible or lumped into a faceless “Arab” menace. Research into “Operation Exodus” shows direct Israeli government involvement in the film’s production, including cooperation with the Israeli military and coordination over messaging (Shaw & Goodman, 2022; Middle East Monitor, 2022).

As Hazem Fahmy notes, Exodus didn’t just tell a story; it rewrote the story of Israel for American audiences, aligning Israeli state mythology with U.S. frontier myths about “civilizing” a land that was magically uninhabited (Fahmy, 2022).

From there, a pattern emerges: films where:

Israeli Jews are brave, conflicted, morally serious.

“Arabs” (Palestinians included) are angry mobs, saboteurs, or background noise.

The Nakba is never mentioned.

Israeli violence is self-defense; Palestinian resistance is terror.

That is how Zionism got written into Hollywood’s DNA.

The Hasbara Machine: Direct Israeli Influence on Hollywood

Israel doesn’t even pretend this is a neutral cultural exchange. It openly treats pop culture as a front in its information war (Shaw & Goodman, 2022; Mecheri et al., 2022).

Government and lobby coordination

Reports document a long pattern of:

Israeli ministries are coordinating with studios and producers to ensure “balanced” (read: pro-Israel) content (Shaw & Goodman, 2022).

U.S.-based Zionist groups like AIPAC and associated organizations are sponsoring “educational trips” to Israel for actors, writers, and influencers (Electronic Intifada, 2015).

Oscar “swag bags” that include luxury trips to Israel are marketed as a reward for A-list stars (Middle East Monitor, 2016).

These trips are not tourism. They are curated propaganda tours: visits to Yad Vashem and hi-tech companies, carefully controlled encounters with handpicked Palestinian citizens of Israel, and zero exposure to checkpoints, refugee camps, or bombed-out Gaza neighborhoods (Baroud, 2022; Fernández, 2023). Hollywood McCarthyism, Palestine edition

The same network that sells Israel’s image also polices dissent. Since Israel’s current genocide in Gaza, we’ve watched a new blacklist form in real time:

Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream for posting basic pro-Palestine statements (Fernández, 2023; TIME, 2023).

Other actors and writers dropped by agents or quietly disinvited from projects for calling out Israeli atrocities (Left Voice, 2023).

Studio executives and producers are making it clear that “controversial politics” means anything that challenges Israel, not anything that advocates genocidal violence against Palestinians (Middle East Eye, 2023; Al Jazeera, 2023).

Middle East Eye, Left Voice, and others have called this the new Hollywood McCarthyism: careers destroyed not for being communists this time, but for refusing to cheerlead for apartheid and ethnic cleansing (Fernández, 2023; Left Voice, 2023).

When an industry punishes those who criticize the mass killing of Palestinian children but rewards those who fundraise for the Israeli army, that’s not “complex.” That’s naked political discipline.

Jack Shaheen and the Archive of Hate

Jack Shaheen did what Hollywood refused to do: actually count.

In Reel Bad Arabs, he examined more than 1,000 films, from early silent pictures to late-20th century blockbusters, and showed that Arabs were almost always portrayed negatively: terrorists, lecherous sheikhs, primitive tribesmen, misogynists, or buffoons (Shaheen, 2001). In a later article on Arab women, he showed how Arab and Muslim women are reduced to veiled victims, exotic dancers, or invisible wives, rarely portrayed as actual complex people with jobs, opinions, or interior lives (Shaheen, 2007).

After 9/11, he published Guilty: Hollywood’s Verdict on Arabs After 9/11, documenting how Islamophobic tropes didn’t just persist, they intensified (Shaheen, 2008). The “Arab terrorist” became Hollywood’s go-to villain. Entire shows and movie franchises were built on the assumption that Muslim life is a legitimate target.

Common stereotypes Shaheen catalogues:

The Terrorist: unshaven, screaming “Allahu Akbar,” obsessed with killing Americans or Israelis (Shaheen, 2001, 2008).

The Oil Sheikh: greedy, corrupt, buying Western companies, often a joke or a threat (Shaheen, 2001).

The Oppressed Woman: voiceless, veiled, needing rescue by Western men or secular elites (Shaheen, 2007).

The Good Arab: the one who helps American or Israeli characters kill “bad” Arabs, or denounces his own people (Shaheen, 2001, 2008).

What Shaheen proves is that Arabs are not just occasionally maligned; they are Hollywood’s default villain (Shaheen, 2001; Shaheen, 2008).

The Pentagon–Hollywood Axis and the War on Terror

Hollywood’s Islamophobia doesn’t just reflect Zionist narratives; it dovetails perfectly with U.S. military propaganda.

The U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence agencies have long provided “production support” to films and TV series, access to bases, ships, helicopters, equipment, and technical advice, on the condition that scripts reinforce certain narratives. Researchers and journalists have demonstrated that the Pentagon frequently requests script changes in exchange for support, particularly in films about war, terrorism, and covert operations (Project on Government Oversight, 2019; Mecheri et al., 2022).

So when Hollywood makes films about:

Iraq and Afghanistan

“Islamic terror”

Counter-terrorism operations

there’s often an invisible co-writer: the Pentagon (Project on Government Oversight, 2019).

This matters because:

Films that question U.S. foreign policy or depict Muslims sympathetically often struggle to secure military support and backing from major studios (Mecheri et al., 2022; Alhassen, 2018).

Films that show Arab and Muslim bodies as legitimate targets for American bullets are practically showered with resources (Qamar et al., 2024; USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, 2021).

This aligns seamlessly with Israeli interests. If Hollywood trains audiences to accept the War on Terror as a noble fight against savage, irrational enemies, then Israel’s decades-long war on Palestinians can be folded into that same “civilization versus barbarism” narrative (Baroud, 2022; Shaw & Goodman, 2022). Shows like Homeland and films like Zero Dark Thirty normalize a world where Muslim lives are expendable, surveillance and torture are minor ethical quibbles, and the U.S. and Israel are righteous victims defending themselves (Alhassen, 2018; Qamar et al., 2024).

Post-9/11: Zionism and U.S. Militarism Merge Into One Story

The attacks of September 11, 2001 became the excuse for everything Washington and Tel Aviv already wanted to do. Israeli officials immediately began framing Israel as the front line in the same war America was now fighting, and U.S. politicians eagerly repeated that line (Baroud, 2022; Fernández, 2023).

Hollywood responded with a wave of post-9/11 films and TV shows that:

Dramatized the War on Terror as a necessary, endless global campaign.

Centered American and sometimes Israeli suffering while making Muslim pain invisible.

Turned Arab cities into anonymous backdrops for raids, drone strikes, and heroic special-ops missions.

Ayesha Qamar and colleagues’ 2024 study, Islamophobia in Hollywood Movies: Comparative Analysis of Pre and Post-9/11 Movies, empirically shows that explicitly Islamophobic portrayals increased in frequency and intensity after 9/11. Muslim characters were more likely to be linked to violence, fanaticism, or suspicion post-9/11 than before (Qamar, Irtaza, & Raza, 2024).

At the same time, Maytha Alhassen’s Haqq and Hollywood: Illuminating 100 Years of Muslim Tropes and How to Transform Them traces a century-long evolution of Muslim portrayals on screen, showing how older Orientalist tropes were recycled into post-9/11 security narratives (Alhassen, 2018).

USC Annenberg’s 2021 study Missing & Maligned found that Muslims made up only 1.6% of 8,965 speaking characters in 200 top-grossing films from 2017–2019, and many of those few roles were tied to violence or extremism (USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, 2021). A later report on TV found similarly low representation and heavy reliance on stereotypes (USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, 2022).

So Muslims are barely present, and when they are, they’re framed as the problem. That’s not an accident; that’s narrative engineering.

Zionists began working with the Nazis at least as far back as 1933. A short 🧵

The Zionists worked closely with the Nazis numerous times. They were surprisingly compatible when it came to racism.

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In 1937, Adolf Eichmann visited Mandatory Palestine undercover as a German journalist. A clandestine meeting had taken place in Berlin between Eichmann and Feivel Polkes,

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There’s something especially cruel in how Zionism devours its own young. Children who could have grown into gentle, loving souls are instead raised on slogans and rifles. They are not taught to live, but to conquer. Zionism teaches them to hate before they can read, dresses them for war before they can write, and molds them into the perfect, polished Hitler Youth, built to destroy and call it righteousness.

Zionists love to accuse Palestinians of “teaching hate.” But what does Israel teach its own children? From the moment they’re born, sometimes literally depicted as future soldiers in maternity ads, Israeli children are groomed for militarism, ethnic supremacy, and violence.

Militarized childhood

By age 10, Israeli settler children undergo weapons training. By 11th grade, teens attend Gadna paramilitary camps, donning IDF uniforms, handling weapons, and learning to “defend” stolen land. Many summer camps are run inside military bases, blending leisure with preparation for colonial violence. (Sources: Viterbo; Haaretz; Al Jazeera)

Schoolbooks of supremacy

Israeli textbooks glorify military force, depict Arabs as inferior, and present Zionist conquest as progress. Children are taught that the destruction of Palestinian villages and lives aligns with “universal values.” (Sources: Nurit Peled-Elhanan; Middle East Monitor; ResearchGate study)

Hatred normalized

Videos show Israeli children singing about killing Arabs “one by one,” mocking murdered Gazan kids, or destroying aid for starving families. This isn’t fringe, it’s the product of a state ideology that sees Palestinians as disposable. (Sources: Electronic Intifada; social media archives)

Militarism = citizenship

Serving in the army isn’t just mandatory, it’s framed as the only path to full citizenship, adulthood, and masculinity. Refusers are ostracized. Dissent is crushed. Zionist education creates soldiers, not citizens. (Sources: Dar & Kimhi; Alestiklal; Breaking the Silence)

Let’s begin where Zionist brainwashing takes root, in textbooks, media, and culture. Israeli children are taught supremacy, conquest, and hate from the very start, long before they can even read.

How Israeli Education and Culture Indoctrinate Children with Supremacist and Violent Ideology

Israeli children are taught from a young age to view Palestinians as lesser, dangerous, and undeserving of empathy. This isn’t accidental, it’s embedded in textbooks, children’s literature, and national culture.

Zionist indoctrination begins before Israeli children can even read. From nursery school to kindergarten, they’re taught that Arabs are enemies, and military service is their destiny.

A 🧵 How Israel teaches its children to hate

Nurit Peled-Elhanan explains how hate is taught from age 3

Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s landmark work found that Israeli textbooks consistently depict Palestinians as violent terrorists and Israelis as innocent victims. History is distorted to justify Zionist goals, while Palestinians’ humanity, stories, and suffering are erased. Her study focused on preparing youth for military service, against Palestinians they’re taught to see as dangerous "others."

Peled-Elhanan, N. (2012). Palestine in Israeli school books: Ideology and propaganda in education. London: I.B. Tauris. share.google/ypEQR6GX7XaHeG…

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A 2020 study by Avner Ben-Amos (Tel Aviv University) found that Israeli school textbooks rarely even mention the occupation or Palestinian perspectives. In history, civics, and geography books, Palestinians are largely invisible, their reality erased from official narratives.

Ben-Amos, A. (2020, June 21). In Israeli textbooks, the Palestinians are all but invisible. Haaretz. Retrieved from web.archive.org/web/2022061922…

A 2016 study by Mira Nasie revealed that 68% of Israeli children suggested violence, beating, fighting, killing, or expelling Arabs, as the solution to the conflict.

Nasie, M. (2016). Young children's experiences and learning in intractable conflicts. In K. Sharvit & E. Halperin (Eds.), A social psychology perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Celebrating the legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal (pp. 31–46). Springer International Publishing. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-…

Adir Cohen analyzed 1,700 Hebrew-language children’s books (1967–1985) and found 520 that portrayed Palestinians in deeply negative, dehumanizing ways.

66% described Arabs as violent

52% as evil

37% as liars

31% as greedy

28% as two-faced

27% as traitors

Cohen, A. (n.d.). An ugly face in the mirror: National stereotypes in Hebrew children's literature. Institute for Palestine Studies. Retrieved from share.google/TfueVAzbSrfqmg…

Andrew Hurley in One Nation Under Israel (1999) argued that Holocaust education in Israel is weaponized against Palestinians. With no Nazis left to hate, Israeli leaders (Begin, Shamir, Sharon) redirected children’s anger at Arabs, labeling them "the Nazis of today." Hurley cited educator Shlomo Ariel, who reported that Israeli army recruits openly supported mass violence and apartheid.

Hurley, A. (1999). One nation under Israel. Retrieved from share.google/AxI3Ly72yuzveR…

Daniel Bar-Tal’s 1998 study of 124 Israeli textbooks showed that national security, Jewish victimhood, and the demonization of Arabs dominate school content. Arabs are often described as cruel, immoral, and hell-bent on Israel’s destruction.

Bar-Tal, D. (1998). The rocky road toward peace: Beliefs on conflict in Israeli textbooks. Journal of Peace Research, 35(6), 723–742. jstor.org/stable/425413

Biblical Mythology Is Not a Land Deed

In debates surrounding Zionism and the State of Israel, it's common to encounter the claim that Jews have a biblical right to the land of Palestine. This assertion, often used to justify the displacement and oppression of Palestinians, relies on ancient mythology, not historical fact. Myth is not a land deed.

Myth Is Not History

The Bible is a theological text, not a historical record. Modern Jewish historians in the 19th century, such as Isaak Markus Jost and Leopold Zunz, did not treat it as a literal account of history. They understood the Old Testament as a reflection of religious beliefs and traditions rather than factual events (Le Monde diplomatique, 2008). It wasn’t until later, with the rise of nationalism, that figures like Heinrich Graetz reinterpreted biblical stories, such as Abraham’s journey, the Exodus, and the kingdom of David and Solomon, as historical truths, forming the foundation of Zionist ideology.

However, archaeological discoveries since the 1980s have systematically dismantled these claims. For example, no evidence supports the story of a Hebrew exodus from Egypt or a sudden conquest of Canaan. At the supposed time of the Exodus, Canaan was still Egyptian territory (Le Monde diplomatique, 2008). Furthermore, excavations have found no trace of the grand united monarchy described in the Bible. Instead, evidence points to two modest kingdoms—Israel and Judah—with Israel being the stronger of the two (Le Monde diplomatique, 2008).

The Myth of Roman Exile

A foundational Zionist myth is that the Jewish diaspora was created through Roman expulsion after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. But historical records and archaeology tell a different story. The Romans did not engage in the practice of exiling entire populations from the eastern Mediterranean. While Jerusalem was destroyed and some were enslaved, the broader population remained on their land (Vridar, 2014).

This is confirmed by the documentary Exile, A Myth Unearthed, which presents archaeological findings from Galilee and Sepphoris that show Jewish communities thriving in Palestine well after the Second Temple’s fall. Historian Israel Yuval states plainly, “The Romans did not force people into exile. This is a biblical image based on the Babylonians and Assyrians, but it was never Roman policy” (Exile, A Myth Unearthed, n.d.).

Even the Bar Kochba revolt of 132–135 CE did not result in mass exile. Instead, Jewish life continued to flourish. Rabbi Judah HaNasi, for instance, compiled the Mishnah in Judea generations after these revolts, hardly the sign of a land emptied of Jews (Vridar, 2014).

Israeli historian Shlomo Sand challenges the exile narrative, arguing that the diaspora grew through conversion and migration rather than forced deportation. He emphasizes that Israel “deliberately forgets its history” by clinging to the myth of exile as a justification for its claims (Le Monde diplomatique, 2008).

Mythology Does Not Justify Ethnic Cleansing

Even if the biblical exile were historical (which it is not), it would still not justify the modern dispossession and displacement of Palestinians. Historical suffering does not give one group the right to oppress another. Nearly every land on Earth could be claimed by someone invoking an ancient wrong, but society moves forward by upholding human rights, not ancient conquest myths.

Moreover, many Palestinians may in fact be descendants of the ancient Judeans, having remained in the region and gradually converting to Christianity and then Islam over centuries. The idea that modern Jews are returning to reclaim a land emptied of their ancestors is both ahistorical and dehumanizing.

Using mythology to justify apartheid, dispossession, and the brutalization of another people is not only morally bankrupt, it’s dangerous. If peace and justice are ever to be realized, it must begin with historical truth and a rejection of violent mythmaking.

1 @saludmentalono @TigayBarry Exile, A Myth Unearthed. (n.d.). Icarus Films.

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The Genocidal Reality: Analyzing Israel's Actions in Gaza Through the Lens of International Law

The term genocide, defined by the United Nations, refers to actions committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group in whole or in part. Israel's actions in Gaza, particularly since the escalation of violence in recent years, have been identified by multiple genocide scholars and human rights organizations as fulfilling these criteria. Genocide includes killings, infliction of serious bodily or mental harm, the deliberate creation of conditions to destroy the group, and efforts to prevent births within the group. This paper explores these acts and demonstrates how Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza constitutes genocide under international law.

Genocidal Acts as Defined by the UN

The UN's 1948 Genocide Convention outlines five acts that define genocide:

Killing members of the group: This includes widespread killing aimed at wiping out a population.
Causing serious bodily or mental harm: This refers to physical violence, but also the infliction of emotional and psychological trauma that destroys a group's sense of identity.
Deliberately inflicting living conditions meant to destroy the group: This includes deprivation of food, medical aid, and resources that lead to the group's physical destruction.
Preventing births: Acts such as forced sterilization or blocking the group from reproducing.
Forcibly transferring children to another group: This refers to the expulsion of the group's children to strip them of their identity.

Israel’s actions in Gaza match these definitions, especially in terms of mass killings, deprivation, and the targeting of civilians, which contribute to the gradual destruction of the Palestinian people. Forensic Architecture’s Cartography of Genocide report documents this systematically, showing how Israel’s policies directly align with these genocidal acts.

Evidence of Genocidal Acts in Gaza

Systematic Killing of Palestinians

One of the most significant markers of genocide is mass killing, particularly when the intent is to destroy an entire group. During the most recent military operations in Gaza, Israeli forces have killed thousands of Palestinians, many of whom were civilians. Forensic Architecture’s report describes how entire neighborhoods were destroyed, and homes were targeted indiscriminately, resulting in countless deaths. During the 2024 escalation, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that thousands of civilians were killed, many of them women and children, which exemplifies the intent to destroy the Palestinian population.

Deprivation of Basic Needs and Intent to Destroy

Another significant aspect of genocide is the deliberate deprivation of resources necessary for survival. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have documented how Israel has intentionally cut off access to food, water, medical supplies, and electricity in Gaza. These acts are intended not only to cause immediate harm but also to prevent the survival of the Palestinian population. The deprivation of clean water and food has exacerbated the suffering in Gaza, further highlighting Israel’s genocidal policies. These conditions lead to the destruction of the population’s health, morale, and prospects, and can be seen as a calculated effort to weaken and destroy the Palestinian people as a group.

Deliberate Targeting of Palestinian Culture and Identity

Israel’s actions have also been recognized as targeting Palestinian culture and identity, which is another genocidal tactic. Dr. Lee Mordechai’s report emphasizes that Israel's efforts to suppress Palestinian voices and media, particularly those documenting the violence, are part of a broader strategy to erase Palestinian identity. This strategy not only destroys the physical population but also aims to erase the history and culture of the Palestinian people, a core component of genocide. The suppression of Palestinian identity is essential for Israel to maintain its narrative that Palestinians do not have a legitimate right to the land or their own identity.

Recognition by Genocide Scholars

Several genocide scholars and Holocaust experts have recognized Israel's actions in Gaza as fitting the criteria of genocide. Holocaust scholar Amos Goldberg notes that the use of military force against civilians, the destruction of homes and infrastructure, and the systematic targeting of non-combatants are all indicators of genocidal intent. In his scholarly work, Goldberg argues that Israel’s military actions in Gaza amount to a systematic attempt to destroy the Palestinian population, fitting the criteria for genocide (Goldberg, 2024).

Similarly, a comprehensive analysis conducted by the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University concludes that Israel’s actions, including the aerial bombardment of civilian areas, the use of disproportionate force, and the targeting of hospitals and schools, qualify as acts of genocide. The report emphasizes that these actions are not isolated incidents but part of a broader strategy aimed at exterminating the Palestinian people (University Network for Human Rights, 2024).

Patterns of Intentional Harm

Genocide does not occur in isolated events but follows a systemic pattern over time. Al Haq’s report demonstrates how Israel’s actions in Gaza fit this pattern. The killing of civilians, the bombing of civilian infrastructure, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people have been systematically documented as part of an ongoing process to destroy the Palestinian population. The report by Airwars, which analyzed patterns of harm in Gaza, highlights how Israeli airstrikes and ground operations have disproportionately impacted civilians, confirming the intentionality behind the violence. These patterns are unprecedented in modern warfare, and they indicate that Israel’s actions go beyond military strategy and are geared toward the destruction of Palestinian society (Airwars, 2024).

Israel's actions in Gaza represent a clear example of genocide as defined by international law. The mass killings, destruction of essential resources, and the deliberate targeting of Palestinian culture and identity fulfill the criteria outlined by the United Nations and scholars in the field of genocide studies. The global community must recognize these crimes for what they are and take concrete steps to hold those responsible accountable.

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Forensic Architecture. (2024). A Cartography of Genocide. Retrieved from Forensic Architecture
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@realMWO @Winning4Him @Tenth_One_ @SkyNews Who celebrated 9/11? A short 🧵

On September 11, 2001 five employees of a moving van company called "Urban Moving Systems" were apprehended hours after the twin towers were struck. An eyewitness saw them celebrating the attacks on the World Trade Center from

1 @realMWO @Winning4Him @tenth_one_ @SkyNews the window of her apartment building.They emerged from a white van, jumped up and down, and high-fived each other with apparent glee. The eyewitness observed them in New Jersey overlooking the Hudson River with an unobstructed view of the burning towers.

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In administrative detention, a person is held without trial or having committed an offense because they plan to break the law in the future. As a preventive measure, it has no time limit. The detainee is held without legal proceedings based on classified evidence.
A🧵 Since October 2023, Israel has intensified its state of emergency measures, allowing laws to be altered, especially those affecting Palestinian prisoners and detainees. This ongoing emergency has led to widespread attacks on Palestinians.

@MedTechGuru @OlaYa_S UN Report: Israel In Regular Contact With Syrian Rebels Including ISIS


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@ParkerStraley @ImaginatorC @TalHeinrich @MuhammadSmiry The Hebron pogram? Really? Even a zionist historian admitted that Zionists were at fault for that and that pretending to be the victims was ridiculous. It was also the first time Zionists got caught using atrocity propaganda. But sure, let's discuss it.

1 @ParkerStraley @ImaginatorC @TalHeinrich @MuhammadSmiry historian Hans Kohn – active in the Zionist movement from 1909 onwards – wrote the following letter: “I feel that I can no longer remain a leading official within the Zionist Organisation… We pretend to be innocent victims. Of course the Arabs attacked us in August [1929].

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I keep seeing people claim the Nakba happened because the arab armies attacked Israel on the day they declared their independence. Like all hasbara talking points, this is a lie.
The nakba timeline
a 🧵 In November 1947, the UN General Assembly proposed a plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Despite Jews constituting one-third of the population and controlling less than 5.5% of Palestine, the UN plan allocated 55% of the land to them.

@HisNameWasRP @jvgraz @MissRinaIdrus @korraposting @DEvansworth Israel’s War in Gaza is Not a Valid Act of Self-defence in International Law
Israel captured the Palestinian Gaza Strip and West Bank from, respectively, Egypt and Jordan, in the 1967 war it launched against these two states and Syria

1 @HisNameWasRP @jvgraz @MissRinaIdrus @korraposting @DEvansworth Israel’s 1967 war was illegal as a matter of the international law on the use of force, for the sake of argument, assuming the contested matter of Israel’s claim that it feared an attack from its three neighbours, states cannot lawfully use force in self-defence pre-emptively.

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This pinned post will have all threads about Israel and Palestine. Everything from the Israel lobby to the history of the nakba. I will continue to add to them.
Free Palestine. This thread has information about the history of the nakba and demonstrates that the process of the nakba continues to this day.

https://x.com/ccnameisfriday/status/1790510301378666743?t=fKwXKjxpS2uT_FRxA_C8Nw&s=19

Israeli private intelligence companies and spyware have interfered in elections around the world, spied on presidents and kings, interfered in treaty negations and has gotten activists and reporters killed.
A 🧵 It is a story of decade-long friendships with Israeli businessmen and former security officials, generous contracts with Israeli cyber surveillance firms, and business partnerships which enabled human rights abuses at Zerón’s hands.

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@JustLuai Some facts about Israel
Homophobia

In a leaked recording, Bezalel Smotrich said he could take measures against the LBGTQ+ community because his voters 'don't give a damn about the gays'

1thejc.com/news/israel/my… @JustLuai Israeli Rabbi Zvi Thau, who has been accused of multiple sex crimes, describes the LGBTQ community as a ‘crime against humanity,’ calling on readers of his new book to join the fight against ‘a fatal disease’ threatening to destroy Israel

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@JustLuai “Pinkwashing refers to when a state or organization appeals to LGBTQ+ rights in order to deflect attention from its harmful practices.”
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MC's ordeal embodies the dark reality of LGBTQ Palestinians in Israel.
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1 @JustLuai As long as Palestinians are deprived of their rights by the occupation, we cannot view the achievements of the Israeli LGBTQ community as an indication of tolerance.
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LGBTQ Palestinians find no safety in Israel
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@EylonALevy Israeli agents infiltrating as Arabs were discovered, arrested and criminally prosecuted in Egypt when their explosives malfunctioned, leading to a crisis in the Israeli government and relations with the US.
40 @EylonALevy The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which mentioned the Lavon incident twice in three pages, expressed caution about investigating such sensitive matters.  “There would undoubtedly (even with care)
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@EylonALevy The Jews leave Arab countries
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https://twitter.com/RedactedRosalia/status/1772115977699770868?t=7vtREnJx6tV_fAwQrlOlVg&s=19

@EylonALevy Yemen
In 1949, the Israeli government was working assiduously with British colonial authorities in Aden and with Yemeni officials to airlift Yemeni Jews to Israel. While the League of Arab States had resolved to ban the emigration of Arab Jews to Israel,
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@gumby4christ I think people need to be aware of the Israeli spyware and private intelligence companies as well.
According to the research group Forensic Architecture, the use of NSO Group’s products has contributed to over 150 physical attacks.
digitalviolence.org/#/platform @gumby4christ Aims’: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles
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@IsaiahTalton2 @Judywantschange The nakba a 🧵 @IsaiahTalton2 @Judywantschange Between 1947 and 1949, at least 750,000 Palestinians from a 1.9 million population were made refugees beyond the borders of the state. Zionist forces had taken more than 78 percent of historic Palestine, ethnically cleansed and destroyed about 530 villages and cities,
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@AIPAC @MarkPocan $6.64 Billion Damages Sought over Israeli Government and AIPAC Use of Stolen Classified US Trade Data

New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released

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prnewswire.com/news-releases/… @AIPAC @MarkPocan AIPAC and its associated think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), were instrumental in lobbying the president for the creation of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence unit early in 2004.
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