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Originally Posted by Beninho

The posters claiming a genocide use fringe academics from backwater universities, then when provided with arguments that negate that criticism they do not engage with it while laying every ounce of blame on to Israel.

Here’s a couple of the “fringe” academics from “backwater” universities you’ve mocked and dismissed:

Omer Bartov:

Omer Bartov (Hebrew: עֹמֶר בַּרְטוֹב, [ʕoˈmer ˈbartov]; born 1954) is an Israeli-born historian. He is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, where he has taught since 2000.[1] Bartov is a noted historian of the Holocaust and is considered one of the world's leading authorities on genocide.[2][3] The Forward calls him "one of the foremost scholars of Jewish life in Galicia."[4]

Dov Waxman:

Dov Waxman (born June 5, 1974) is an author, academic and commentator. He is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the director of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Waxman is an internationally recognized expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Jewish–Arab relations in Israel, Israeli politics and foreign policy, Israel–United States relations, American Jewry’s relationship with Israel, Jewish politics, and contemporary Antisemitism.

I was not aware we were referring to Brown, an Ivy league school, or UCLA as “backwater” but I suppose when the only goal is to discredit a narrative different from your own and the only approach you know is to throw out endless, absurd accusation after accusation, it makes a bit more sense.