Genocide

New UN inquiry: Israel 'deliberately' killed Palestinian children, resulting in genocide

A UN-backed commission report accuses Israel of severe violations against Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank, prompting a strong Israeli rebuttal.

 IDF soldiers seen operating in the northern Gaza Strip, April 13, 2025
Democratic Congressional candidate Claire Valdez speaks during an election eve rally at Silo on June 22, 2026 in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Newsrooms are not courtrooms: New Yorkers must reject media presumption of Israel's guilt - opinion

Exterior view of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.

It’s Dreyfus, not Eichmann: Israel is misreading the int'l case against it - opinion

An illustrative image of a doctor holding a heart with an Israeli flag.

'Medicine is no place for politics': IMA pushes back against proposed global boycott - interview


‘Genocide’ term creator's family says letters support probe request into use of Lemkin name

Rabbi Marvin Hier joined several rabbinic leaders in arguing that using the “Lemkin” name to accuse Israel of genocide misrepresents the history and moral intent behind Lemkin’s work.

Raphael Lemkin

Former Columbia professor claims campus antisemitism focus fosters ‘Jewish victimization’

Professor Marianne Hirsch also argued the Holocaust must be taught alongside Gaza and the "Nakba," warning against “exceptionalism” in Holocaust memory.

Columbia University professor emerita Marianne Hirsch.

WHO discussed use of term ‘famine’ to pressure Israel in December 2023, doctor reveals

Thieren said he was shocked that the roles of perpetrator and victim were assigned from the outset of the war.

Palestinians carry aid supplies that entered Gaza through Israel, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, July 27, 2025

Mehdi Hasan posts, then deletes about ways 'Gaza genocide' worse than Holocaust

"One of the ways in which the Gaza genocide is worse than... even the Holocaust – is that you didn’t have... Nazis mocking the genocide after it was over," Hasan wrote.

Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief, Zeteo, Mehdi Hasan speaks onstage at Semafor’s Innovating to Restore Trust in News: A National Summit at Gallup Great Hall on February 27, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Jews buying the genocide lie betray Israel and themselves - opinion

I’m even more ashamed of those American Jews swallowing these antisemitic “war crimes” libels, betraying themselves, not just their people.

A BILLBOARD in Times Square reads ‘Israel is committing genocide’ as part of a campaign for a soccer boycott against Israel over the war in Gaza last month. No genocidal army ever imported 14,125 tons of aid in one week alone, says the writer.

Greta Thunberg to be deported to Greece, Trump says Hamas faces 'obliteration' if it rejects deal

Hamas collecting hostage bodies • Detained flotilla participant accused of biting prison medical staff • Israeli, Diaspora communities commemorate Oct. 7 Massacre anniversary.

Hamas members stand at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.

Majority of US Jews think Israel committed war crimes, 40% say guilty of genocide in Gaza - poll

While Jews blame Hamas for the war, many have also waned in their support of PM Benjamin Netanyahu's war tactics, a Washington Post poll found.

A person looks on before a Yizkor ritual on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, as a banner opposing Israel's military action in Gaza hangs, in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City, U.S., October 2, 2025.

Testimonies from Syria: First the genocide, now the famine

MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS: Syrian Druze first faced a genocide and now a state-manufactured famine, community activists tell the ‘Post.’

Tribal and Bedouin fighters deploy in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, amid clashes with Druze gunmen in July 2025.

UK Labour party votes that Israel is committing genocide, pro-Palestine groups celebrate

The Labour Party also called for an end to arms sales to Israel, comprehensive sanctions, a ban on trade with internationally-deemed illegal settlements, and full access to humanitarian aid.

British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood speaks on stage, as Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy listens, at Britain's Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool, Britain, September 29, 2025.

Family of genocide term's creator move to block US institute from using his name

Formal complaint in Pennsylvania says the group misleads the public and distorts Raphael Lemkin’s legacy, while repeatedly accusing Israel of “genocide.”

An "End the genocide in Gaza" lawn sign is seen in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S. November 6, 2024.