Bernie Saunders on Genocide

[Chris.C]

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Gaza: “Genocide is a legal term. What is going on now clearly is absolutely horrific…But the important point is not what you call it — it is horror — the answer is what the hell do we do about it?   
 

https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1950519649239519718

[Chomper Higgot]

3 hours ago, Chris.C said:

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Gaza: “Genocide is a legal term. What is going on now clearly is absolutely horrific…But the important point is not what you call it — it is horror — the answer is what the hell do we do about it?   
 

https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1950519649239519718

While I agree with Bernie’s question, the term Genocide matters as nations that are signatories to the UN Convention on Genocide are obligated to prevent and punish Genocide.

 

https://www.ungeneva.org/en/news-media/news/2024/01/89297/explainer-what-genocide-convention

[bannork]

Genocide is taking place in Gaza and Europe is duty bound to stop it, Israeli scholar says

 

To prove a genocide, you also have to show that the intent is being implemented and that there are no other motives than wanting to destroy the group, Bartov,  a genocide and Holocaust scholar, explained.

 

He pointed to systematic Israeli military operations aimed at demolishing “hospitals, mosques, museums and the goal is then to force the population to leave,” despite the fact that “people won’t and can’t leave and have no place to go to.”

 

What distinguishes Israel’s operation in Gaza from ethnic cleansing and confirms the will to destroy Palestinians, according to Bartov, is that “you make it impossible for that group to reconstitute itself and it is section D of the Genocide Convention, it’s about imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.”

 

Genocide is taking place in Gaza and Europe is duty bound to stop it, Israeli scholar says