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Joe Oliver: The lie that Israel's committing 'genocide' is fuelling antisemitism

The claim is a mendacious blood libel that inverts the truth by absolving those who seek to wipe out Israel

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The false accusation that Israel is guilty of genocide for its actions in Gaza has been repeated so often that it has become normalized in the media, academia, politics and civil society. Yet it is a mendacious blood libel that inverts the truth by absolving those who seek to wipe out Israel, for the cynical purpose of delegitimizing the world’s only Jewish state, a refuge for Holocaust survivors, and threatening diaspora Jews. Furthermore, it does a disservice to actual genocides that have been committed around the world.

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The authoritative legal definition of genocide is set out in Article II of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which defines genocide as specified acts committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

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