"Less than a week after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, the Israeli-born Holocaust scholar Raz Segal described Israel's retaliation against Gaza as "genocidal"-a term he meant not rhetorically but literally, based on well-founded legal definitions. "Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed," he wrote. "Perpetrators of genocide usually do not express their intentions so clearly.""
"While Segal's deep academic expertise provided intellectual heft to his warning, it did not require years of study to see where Israel's assault was headed; anyone who had been paying attention understood the designs of Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right, settler-dominated governing coalition, which had been spewing eliminationist rhetoric about Palestinians and facilitating pogroms in the occupied West Bank for nearly a year before the attacks."
""It's a choice to forget everything you knew yesterday about Israel," I tweeted on the morning of October 7. Nonetheless, it was a choice many of my peers made-some for days, some for weeks, and some for nearly two years of slaughter in Gaza. But in late July, a memo seemed to go out that it was finally permissible, imperative even, for mainstream liberals and elected Democrats to call what Israel was doing to the Palestinians a genocide, or a man-made famine, or simply evil."
Less than a week after October 7, 2023, Israeli-born Holocaust scholar Raz Segal described Israel's retaliation against Gaza as genocidal, citing legal definitions. The Israeli far-right, settler-dominated governing coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu had been promoting eliminationist rhetoric and facilitating pogroms in the occupied West Bank for nearly a year before the attacks. Many observers and liberal politicians delayed calling the campaign genocide or famine. In late July, mainstream liberals and elected Democrats increasingly labeled the actions as genocide or man-made famine. Former Obama staffer Tommy Vietor urged welcoming new critics and building coalitions to force political change.
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