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by LorenPechtel 203 days ago
You mean the Ireland that wanted to redefine "genocide" so they could call the war genocide? Thus the government that knew it was not genocide.

Sorry, but war in urban areas is extremely ugly. That does not make it genocide.

As for apartheid South Africa--look at the reality. Their revolution was jumping from the frying pan to the fire. Just because the new oppressors were of the same skin color doesn't make them not oppressors.

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Nice try.

In December 2024 Amnesty International denounced it as a Genocide, leading to Israel’s foreign ministry defaming the London-based group as a “deplorable and fanatical organisation”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/05/amnesty-intern...

Two prominent Israeli Humanitarian Organisations - B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel - identified it as Genocide in July 2025. Dr Guy Shalev, executive director of PHRI, said: "Silence in the face of genocide is not an option. We want to stress: confronting genocide is not only the responsibility of legal and political institutions. Confronting it demands urgent action from the global health community."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c776xkvz6vno

In September 2025, the world's leading association of genocide scholars, which includes a number of Holocaust experts (IAGS), has declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and that Israel's conduct meets the legal definition as laid out in the UN convention on genocide.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o

In September 2025, the independent international commission of inquiry set up by the UN also concluded that “genocide is occurring in Gaza”. Legal analysis accused Israel of committing genocide in four out of five categories as defined by 1948 convention and cited ‘Direct evidence of genocidal intent’, saying that its offensive there has been waged “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/16/un-commission-...

That leading association of genocide scholars????

No, a small subset. Of an organization whose sole membership requirement is paying the membership fee.

And the rest of your stuff isn't much better.

Pretty telling that you couldn't resist doing apartheid apologia and Zionism in the same comment.
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