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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Here’s a couple of the “fringe” academics from “backwater” universities you’ve mocked and dismissed:
Omer Bartov:
Dov Waxman:
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.
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Dov Waxman is specifically stating it's not a genocide:
https://jewishcurrents.org/letters/o...se-of-genocide
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But while Israel’s relentless and devastating aerial bombing of Gaza is certainly killing many Palestinian civilians, it does not seem to be aimed at simply killing as many Palestinians as possible; if that were the case, the casualties would undoubtedly be even higher, given the military force at Israel’s disposal. Though they do not amount to genocide, the seemingly indiscriminate bombing of apartment buildings and civilian infrastructure in Gaza, with apparently little if any effort to avoid civilian casualties, appears to be a war crime under international law, as does the forced displacement of civilians. And it is clear that some within the far-right Israeli government would like to seize this opportunity to drive Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip entirely, just as they hope to do with Palestinians in the West Bank, in an act of mass ethnic cleansing. For our warnings about this frightening possibility to be taken seriously, we must avoid making unsubstantiated charges of genocide.
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He's a critic of the current action, but specifically states it's not genocide and it's a disservice to actual genocide to say it is.