Draft:List of experts accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza

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Thousands of scholars and legal experts have accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. This page lists notable public accusations (articles, interviews, open letters, scholarly publications) where the source explicitly uses the term "genocide" (or unambiguous equivalents such as "genocidal war/violence" or "genocide by attrition") to characterize Israel’s actions in Gaza after October 7, 2023.


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Date of accusation Name Profession/affiliation Sources
15 October 2023 800 scholars (TWAILR public statement) Scholars (open letter) [1]
18 October 2023 California Indian Studies & Scholars Association (CISSA) Indian studies scholars’ association (scholarly org) [2]
19 October 2023 Pedro Arrojo-Agudo; Reem Alsalem; Francesca Albanese; Paula Gaviria Betancur; Michael Fakhri; Tlaleng Mofokeng; Balakrishnan Rajagopal; Farida Shaheed UN Special Rapporteurs [3]
1 December 2023 Luis Moreno Ocampo Former ICC chief prosecutor [4]
9 December 2023 Raz Segal (with other genocide/Holocaust scholars) Scholar of Holocaust and genocide [5]
4 January 2024 John Mearsheimer Political scientist [6]
6 January 2024 Alix Faddoul et al. Public health & humanitarian professionals [7]
25 February 2024 Richard A. Falk Professor of international law [8]
27 February 2024 Michael Fakhri UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food; professor of law [9]
1 March 2024 Akimaro Kikkawa Professor of economics [10]
5 March 2024 Raz Segal; Luigi Daniele Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies; Professor of law [11]
11 March 2024 Middle East Studies Association (statement) Scholars of Middle East Studies [12]
27 March 2024 Abdullah Shihipar; Brandon Marshall; Jacqueline Gold People, Place & Health Collective (Brown SPH) [13]
29 March 2024 Dylan Saba Attorney, Palestine Legal [14]
11 April 2024 Nithya Nagarajan Doctoral candidate in Politics [15]
17 April 2024 Jessica Whyte Professor of philosophy & political theory [16]
17 April 2024 William I. Robinson Professor of sociology [17]
19 April 2024 John Docker Literary critic & genocide historian [18]
21 April 2024 Anisha Patel; Hassan Ben Imran Legal researchers (Law for Palestine) [19]
6 May 2024 Maryam Jamshidi Professor of law [20]
6 May 2024 Devaka Gunawardena Research Fellow, Social Scientists' Association (Colombo) [21]
9 May 2024 Nimer Sultany Reader in Public Law [22]
9 May 2024 Nakib Muhammad Nasrullah Vice-Chancellor; Professor of Law [23]
10 May 2024 Professors at Complutense (UCM), Madrid Professors (info theory; political science; sociology) [24]
13 May 2024 Nahla Abdo Professor of sociology [25]
21 May 2024 Eric Reinhart; Mary T. Bassett Political anthropologist; Professor of epidemiology [26]
24 May 2024 Matiangai Sirleaf Professor of international law [27]
1 June 2024 Neil Ballantyne; Liz Beddoe Professors of social work [28]
3 June 2024 Gökhan Ak Professor of political science [29]
4 June 2024 Transnational Institute Social-change think tank [30]
4 June 2024 Fábio Bacila Sahd Historian; adjunct professor [31]
5 June 2024 Susan Akram Clinical Professor of Law; IHR Clinic director [32]
6 June 2024 Aryeh Neier Human rights advocate [33]
6 June 2024 Gilles Emmanuel Jacquet Professor of diplomacy & geopolitics [34]
6 June 2024 Antonio Basallote Marín Professor (Interculturality & Arab-Islamic World) [35]
17 June 2024 Brianna Suslovic et al. Social work scholars [36]
19 June 2024 Lee Mordechai Historian (Hebrew University) [37]
26 June 2024 Víctor A. Rocafort; Samer Hassan; Alfonso Casani Professors (political science; computer science) [38]
29 June 2024 Gerry McAlister Professor of history [39]
11 July 2024 UN experts incl. Michael Fakhri, Tlaleng Mofokeng, Francesca Albanese (et al.) UN Special Rapporteurs/experts [40]
17 July 2024 Elyse Semerdjian Professor; Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies [41]
17 July 2024 Neve Gordon; Nicola Perugini IHL professor; Anthropologist [42]
25 July 2024 Mohsen al Attar Associate Dean; International law scholar [43]
29 July 2024 Selected contributors (LRIL forum): Shahd Hammouri; Nora Jaber; Tor Krevor; Lori A. Allen; Zinaida Miller; Lys Kulamadayil; Darryl Li; John Reynolds; Christopher Gevers; Souheir Edelbi; Justina Uriburu; Umut Özsu Legal scholars & social scientists [44]
1 March 2024 1,346 academics (Academics4Peace petition) Academics (petition/open letter) [45]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza". TWAILR (Third World Approaches to International Law Review). October 15, 2023. Archived from the original on November 17, 2023.
  2. ^ "Statement on Gaza". California Indian Studies & Scholars Association. October 18, 2023.
  3. ^ "Gaza: UN experts decry bombing of hospitals and schools; call for ceasefire". OHCHR. October 19, 2023. Archived from the original on November 15, 2023.
  4. ^ "Former ICC chief prosecutor: Israel's siege of Gaza is a genocide". Al Jazeera English. December 1, 2023.
  5. ^ "Statement of Scholars of Genocide, the Holocaust, and Mass Violence on Israel/Palestine". Contending Modernities. December 9, 2023.
  6. ^ Mearsheimer, John (January 4, 2024). "Genocide in Gaza". Substack.
  7. ^ Faddoul, Alix (January 6, 2024). "Genocide and public health in Gaza". The Lancet. Archived from the original on December 21, 2023.
  8. ^ Falk, Richard A. (February 25, 2024). "In Gaza, the West is enabling the most transparent genocide in human history". Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
  9. ^ Fakhri, Michael (February 27, 2024). "UN expert: denial of food in Gaza is a war crime and constitutes a situation of genocide". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 28, 2024.
  10. ^ Kikkawa, Akimaro (March 1, 2024). "…イスラエルは…民族皆殺し＝ジェノサイドと見做していい戦争行為を行っている。" [Israel is waging a war that can be considered genocide] (PDF). Kanazawa Seiryo University Journal (in Japanese).
  11. ^ Segal, Raz; Daniele, Luigi (March 5, 2024). "Holocaust and Genocide Studies at an Impasse". Journal of Genocide Research.
  12. ^ "Accelerating scale of genocidal violence being inflicted on the Palestinian population of Gaza". Al Jazeera English (live blog). March 11, 2024. Archived from the original on March 12, 2024.
  13. ^ Shihipar, Abdullah; Marshall, Brandon; Gold, Jacqueline (March 27, 2024). "We… speak out against the Gaza genocide". Mondoweiss. Archived from the original on March 28, 2024.
  14. ^ Saba, Dylan (March 29, 2024). "Aid Wars". n+1.
  15. ^ Nagarajan, Nithya (April 11, 2024). "Workers' mobilizations against Israel's genocidal war on Palestine" (PDF). Antipode (online).
  16. ^ Whyte, Jessica (April 17, 2024). "A perfectly legal genocide? Gaza, IHL and starvation". Journal of Genocide Research.
  17. ^ Robinson, William I. (April 17, 2024). "Genocidal pressures… normalizing calls for genocide". Journal of World-Systems Research.
  18. ^ Docker, John (April 19, 2024). "Cultural Genocide and Mental Harm in Palestine". Law for Palestine.
  19. ^ Patel, Anisha; Ben Imran, Hassan (April 21, 2024). "The ICC can no longer ignore the genocide in Gaza". Al Jazeera English.
  20. ^ Jamshidi, Maryam (May 6, 2024). "Gaza, Genocide, and the Law". Journal of Genocide Research.
  21. ^ Gunawardena, Devaka (May 6, 2024). "Resisting Genocide in Gaza" (PDF). Polity.
  22. ^ Sultany, Nimer (May 9, 2024). "An emerging consensus that Israel's actions amount to genocide". Journal of Genocide Research.
  23. ^ Nasrullah, Nakib Muhammad (May 9, 2024). "Israel's attacks show intent to destroy (genocide mens rea)". Dhaka Law Review.
  24. ^ "…peticiones… condenar la destrucción… y el genocidio en Gaza". El País (in Spanish). May 10, 2024.
  25. ^ Abdo, Nahla (May 13, 2024). "…today's Genocidal war on the Gaza Strip". Studies in Political Economy.
  26. ^ Reinhart, Eric; Bassett, Mary T. (May 21, 2024). "Will medicine refuse complicity with genocide?". The Nation. Archived from the original on May 21, 2024.
  27. ^ Sirleaf, Matiangai (May 24, 2024). "…the first "live-streamed" genocide". International Journal of Transitional Justice.
  28. ^ Ballantyne, Neil; Beddoe, Liz (June 1, 2024). "Editorial reflections… in the context of the genocide". Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work.
  29. ^ Ak, Gökhan (June 3, 2024). "Slow but relentless "trickling genocide"". Journal of Humanity, Peace and Justice.
  30. ^ "Partners in Crime: EU complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza". Transnational Institute. June 4, 2024.
  31. ^ Sahd, Fábio Bacila (June 4, 2024). "Genocídio do Povo Palestino". Tensões Mundiais (ed. extra) (in Portuguese).
  32. ^ Akram, Susan (June 5, 2024). "Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?". Boston University Today / University Network for Human Rights.
  33. ^ Neier, Aryeh (June 6, 2024). "On Gaza, I am now persuaded it's genocide". The New York Review (letter/essay).
  34. ^ Jacquet, Gilles Emmanuel (June 6, 2024). "Israel's attacks on Gaza can be considered genocide: expert". Anadolu Agency.
  35. ^ Basallote Marín, Antonio (June 6, 2024). "La guerra genocida sobre Gaza". Revista Internacional de Educación y Análisis Social Crítico (in Spanish).
  36. ^ Suslovic, Brianna; Rasmussen, Cameron W.; Kim, Mimi E.; Sarantakos, Sophia P.; Dettlaff, Alan J. (June 17, 2024). "Response to Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinian people". Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work.
  37. ^ "Israeli academic accuses his country of genocide in Gaza". The National (Abu Dhabi). June 19, 2024.
  38. ^ "…colaboradores necesarios en el genocidio en curso". elDiario.es (in Spanish). June 26, 2024.
  39. ^ McAlister, Gerry (June 29, 2024). "The genocide in Gaza and Canadian policy". Canadian Foreign Policy Journal.
  40. ^ "UN experts declare Israel's intentional starvation a form of genocidal violence (famine throughout Gaza)" (Press release). OHCHR. July 11, 2024. {{cite press release}}: |archive-url= is malformed: flag (help)
  41. ^ Semerdjian, Elyse (July 17, 2024). "Genocide by Attrition in Artsakh and Gaza". Journal of Genocide Research.
  42. ^ Gordon, Neve; Perugini, Nicola (July 17, 2024). "A legal justification for genocide (human-shields doctrine)". Jewish Currents.
  43. ^ al Attar, Mohsen (July 25, 2024). "What Will Gaza Become After Genocide?". Opinio Juris.
  44. ^ "On International Law and Gaza: Critical Reflections (selected contributions describing Gaza as genocide)". WestminsterResearch / London Review of International Law forum. July 29, 2024.
  45. ^ "Stop arms to Israel — March 24 Petition". Academics4Peace. March 1, 2024. Archived from the original on June 27, 2024.