As one credible source after another confirms that Israel is carrying out a genocide against the Palestinians, we find ourselves living through a mass, public genocide denial.
At the end of February, Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, denounced Israel’s forced starvation of Palestinians in Gaza and said, “In my view as a UN human rights expert, this is now a situation of genocide.”
A month later, Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, concluded that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.”
On Nakba Day, 15 May, the University Network for Human Rights (UNHR) released a report it had written with the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School, the Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School. The document shows in scrupulous detail that Israel has carried out a genocide in Gaza and is continuing to do so. ….more
