The International Association of Genocide Scholars has passed a resolution declaring that what Israel is doing in the war in Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide. Meanwhile, Donald Trump conducted an interview where he touched on the issue and suggested that this may merely be a public relations problem plaguing Israel.
The IAGS is a highly respected institution of scholars specializing in genocide. The group has been deeply involved in declaring situations like the one in Darfur as genocide. But their announcement on Israel in Gaza has been long delayed. It took the group 22 months to come to a conclusion on whether they define the war in Gaza as genocide or not. BBC reports that the scholars in the organization number around 500, and 28% took part in this particular vote. An overwhelming number of those who did participate announced that, in their professional opinion, Israel is in fact committing genocide.
