Most people contesting the definition today are also denying that Israel has committed huge systematic atrocities—honest debate about definition has been replaced by a campaign to defuse criticism of Israel. And although the ICJ made a meal of ‘intent’ over Bosnia, it did find genocide at Srebrenica

This reposting of my article from 2025 reminds us that recognition of Israel’s genocide has been a strong consensus for well over a year now—which explains Israel’s systematic campaign to discredit the view and provide cover for its atrocities.

My latest—how denial of the Gaza genocide has mutated over the last three years, and the tensions between recognition and denial in the Burnham-Miliband ‘reset’ of Palestine policy.

Some of us remember the Rwanda scheme.

I’ve written a piece for History Workshop reflecting on mass activism and direct action - as Marral says, we first met when a group of members of the late 1960s LSE Socialist Society supported today’s Palestine activists in the School, who were under threat from the LSE authorities.

“What the physical record shows is a military that could confine its violence to a single room when it chose to, and elsewhere chose otherwise.” - Israel discriminated between Christian and other areas in the degree of “precision” it used in targeting.