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Education Israeli Genocide
Yes, it is Genocide
AUTHORITATIVE REPORTS, FINDINGS & STATEMENTS BY GENOCIDE SCHOLARS AND HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS
UN Commission of Inquiry
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
16 September 2025, UN Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds
See the full UN report - September 2025
United Nations Commission Concludes Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza
16 September 2025, Mehdi Hasan and staff, Zeteo
https://zeteo.com/p/united-nations-un-gaza-genocide-israel
My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide
16 September 2025, Navi Pillay, New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/opinion/un-palestinians-israel-gaza-genocide.html
International Association of Genocide Scholars
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say
1 September 2025, Emir Nadar, BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o
See the IAGS resolution - 31 August 2025
Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
1 September 2025, Molly Quell, Associated Press
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/leading-genocide-scholars-organization-says-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza
Amos Goldberg, Israeli Holocaust scholar
Israeli Historian: This Is Exactly What Genocide Looks Like
11 July 2024, Interview by Elios Feroz, Jacobin
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/amos-goldberg-genocide-gaza-israel
Amos Goldberg: 'What is happening in Gaza is a genocide because Gaza does not exist anymore'
29 October 2024, Interview by Stéphanie Le Bars, Le Monde
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/10/29/amos-goldberg-what-is-happening-in-gaza-is-a-genocide-because-gaza-does-not-exist-anymore_6730881_23.html
Prof. Amos Goldberg: “Yes, it is genocide”
14 May 2024, Amos Goldberg, Jewish Voice for Labour/Swiss Policy Research
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/prof-amos-goldberg-yes-it-is-genocide/
Yes, it is genocide
18 April 2024, Amos Goldberg, The Palestine Project
https://thepalestineproject.medium.com/yes-it-is-genocide-634a07ea27d4
Omer Bartov, Genocide Scholar
A Genocide Scholar on the Case Against Israel
Podcast (26 min) and transcript
23 July 2025, Omer Bartov and Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-scholar-response.html
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
15 July 2025, Omer Bartov, New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion/israel-gaza-holocaust-genocide-palestinians.html
Historian Omer Bartov on why he believes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/17/nx-s1-5468953/historian-omer-bartov-on-why-he-believes-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza
As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
12 August 2024, Omer Bartov, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov
On GPS: Holocaust scholar says Israel is committing genocide
TV clip, Fareed Zakaria interview, 6 min.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/20/world/video/gps0720-israel-gaza-genocide
B'Tselem, Israeli Human Rights Center
‘Our genocide’: Israeli rights groups abandon their restraint on Gaza
After months of hesitation, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (see below) assert that the war is meant to erase Palestinian life — now and in the future.
31 July 2025, Shatha Yaish, +972 Magazine
https://www.972mag.com/btselem-phri-gaza-genocide/
See the B'Tselem full report: "Our Genocide"
See B'Tselem's video (8 min) and all materials
Physicians for Human Rights–Israel
Destruction of Conditions of Life: A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide
See the PHRI paper
Al-Haq, Palestinian Human Rights Organization
Al-Haq Launches Genocide Legal Brief Series
The oldest human rights organization in the Middle East begins a series that will examinw different elements of the crime of genocide, as a legal toolkit for practitioners working on Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
https://www.alhaq.org/publications/26380.html
Amnesty International
“You Feel Like You Are Subhuman”: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
5 December 2024
See the announcement, download the report, watch the 6-minute video
https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/you-feel-like-you-are-subhuman-israels-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/
Download the full report
See Amnesty's FAQs
Israel’s genocide in Gaza is fully intentional, and other takeaways from the Amnesty International report
7 December 2024, Jonathan Ofir, Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/israels-genocide-in-gaza-is-fully-intentional-and-other-takeaways-from-the-amnesty-international-report/
Amnesty says Israel committing acts of genocide in Gaza. Here’s what to know.
4 December 2024, Louisa Loveluck and Missy Ryan, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/04/israel-gaza-palestinians-amnesty-genocide-report/
Human Rights Watch
Extermination and Acts of Genocide:
Israel Deliberately Depriving Palestinians in Gaza of Water
19 December 2024
See the summary, full report, and graphs
https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/12/19/extermination-and-acts-genocide/israel-deliberately-depriving-palestinians-gaza
The full report
Human Rights Watch finds Israel guilty of extermination and ‘acts of genocide’
19 December 2024, Jonathan Ofir, Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/human-rights-watch-finds-israel-guilty-of-extermination-and-acts-of-genocide/
Center for Constitutional Rights
The Genocide of the Palestinian People: An International Law and Human Rights Perspective
25 August 2016
https://ccrjustice.org/genocide-palestinian-people-international-law-and-human-rights-perspective
Background on the term "genocide"
Melanie O'Brien, President of International Association of Genocide Scholars
Is Genocide Happening in Gaza?
4 August 2025, Melanie O'Brien, OpinioJuris
https://opiniojuris.org/2025/08/04/is-genocide-happening-in-gaza/
Dutch newspaper investigation
Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: Dutch investigation
17 May 2025, Sondos Asem, Middle East Eye
Researchers from Israel, the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Australia, Croatia and Canada say Israel's conduct meets the legal threshold of genocide
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-genocide-scholars-unanimous-israel-committing-genocide-gaza-investigation-finds
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As with the decades-long debate on whether Israel is an apartheid state, so also with the charge that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza:
the world's top scholars on genocide and the Holocaust, along with human rights experts in Israel and around the world have answered that question definitively: IT IS GENOCIDE.
On this page, we have collected many of the reports and findings of these experts, along with some additional analysis and commentary that might be useful.
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Statement from B'Tselem
Israel’s regime of apartheid and occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations. B’Tselem strives to end this regime, as that is the only way forward to a future in which human rights, democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all people, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Since the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, Israel has acted in a coordinated and deliberate manner to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip, committing genocide against its residents. In light of Israel’s actions in Gaza, the public statements made by Israeli decision-makers, and the international community’s failure to take effective action, there is a serious risk that the Israeli regime will expand the genocide to other areas under its control—first and foremost, the West Bank.
B’Tselem calls on the Israeli public and the international community to use every tool available under international law to bring an immediate end to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.