cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33219979
by Caitlin Johnstone Jul 15, 2025
The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.
It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.
In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies named Omer Bartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.
The most important thing is to never be against the atrocities too soon. One day, everyone will have been against this genocide.
Spain and some other EU countries since time called it what it is and Netanyahu an criminal. Even dicovering that Hamas is supported and funded by Israel to justify this genocide. This makes Netanyahu even more vomitive than it is already and all orange guys which support him
https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-funded-hamas-claims-eu-top-diplomat-josep-borrell/
Hamas is supported and funded by Israel to justify this genocide.
???
As advanced as we have become, we still fail at objectively “scoring” atrocities quickly enough to stop unreasonable loss of life.
I don’t think that’s where we’re failing.
It became very obvious, a couple of weeks into Israel’s retaliation, that this wasn’t ever about the Hamas attacks but about wiping out every single Palestinian from Gaza.
But the EU is still searching for a spine, the US condones it, and the rest of the world doesn’t really care enough.
And here we are, with dozens and dozens of innocent people being massacred every single day. It makes me sick to my stomach…
EU isn’t “searching for a spine” they condone it as well.
Not exactly.
The ruling class gets to decide the score. They didn’t fail to recognize the atrocity quickly enough, they supported it.
