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> All major human rights organizations are saying the exact same thing: Israel is actively committing a genocide

Your argument loses credibility when you overstep like this.

Human rights organisations (and credible third parties) agree that Gaza is in famine. The term genocide is not universally applied, though it is increasingly and increasingly credibly, albeit at the expense of the clarity of the term.



> Human rights organisations (and credible third parties) agree that Gaza is in famine. The term genocide is not universally applied, though it is increasingly and increasingly credibly, albeit at the expense of the clarity of the term.

UN commission uses word genocide [0].

ICJ used word "plausible" [1].

HRW has used the word genocide [2]

...actually the list of explicit accusation of genocide is quite big [3].

Is there some single, powerful organisation left that does not agree that there is genocide? All the big mentioned also [4].

[0]: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g9g63jl17o

[2]: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-exterminat...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humanitarian_and_human...

[4]: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165856


> UN commission uses word genocide

Yes, that's the credible third party I referred to.

> ICJ used word "plausible"

Correct.

> HRW has used the word genocide

In the phrase "may amount to the crime of genocide" [1].

> the list of explicit accusation of genocide is quite big

Yet not amounting to "all big humanitarian organizations." Like, the two you chose to highlight stepped back from making that claim prematurely because they don't want to cry wolf with a word that should have a lot of meaning, but which activists have effectively neutered in American political culture.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-exterminat...


> > HRW has used the word genocide > In the phrase "may amount to the crime of genocide" [1].

They wrote “In doing so, Israeli authorities are responsible for the crime against humanity of extermination and for acts of genocide” [1].

Thank you for clearing up what the Israeli state officials are responsible for. We are saying the same thing, but you want to dance around it.




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