[-] jaek@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

That's a bad comparison. The Wikipedia decision was made specifically because the experts -- i.e actual scholars of genocide and war crimes -- have a very widely held consensus that a genocide is occurring.

Do you disagree with the experts?

[-] jaek@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Killing other humans is often justified. For instance, it would be completely justified to kill someone who was in the process of shooting up a school.

In the same way, billionaires are guilty of causing the deaths of millions of people through their hoarding of necessities. Killing the billionaires would allow this wealth to be redistributed, saving potentially millions of lives.

[-] jaek@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The United states holocaust museum has a pretty good 'plain text' definition of genocide, which perfectly captures what the Israelis are trying to do to the Palestinians as genocide.

The article also has some useful 'plain text' descriptions of ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, mass atrocities, mass killing and war crimes.

https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/learn-about-genocide-and-other-mass-atrocities/definitions

The astute reader will notice that the Israelis are actually guilty of all of these mass atrocities as part of their attempts to genocide the Palestinians.

Genocide is defined as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.

The acts are:

  • Killing members of the group.
  • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.
  • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
  • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
  • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Except for perhaps the last point, there's no person that could argue that Israel has not perpetrated these acts against the Palestinians.

All that leaves then is the intent aspect of genocide.

The Israelis are very open about their desire to destroy Palestine. Law4palestine has a collection for quotes from current and former legislators which capture their genocidal intent:

https://law4palestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1-Database-of-Israeli-Incitement-to-Genocide-15th-January-2024-DECISION-MAKERS.pdf

https://law4palestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2-Database-of-Israeli-Incitement-to-Genocide-15th-January-2024-LEGISLATORS.pdf

If you don't feel like reading through that, here's an excellent summary of other evidence of Israel's genocidal intent from Jewish Currents:

https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide

*Edit: added the link to the legislators list. Left the decision makers list as it just serves to hammer the point home

[-] jaek@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago
[-] jaek@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Why do bots! Love exclamation marks! So much!

[-] jaek@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Where else does this happen regularly?

[-] jaek@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Hard to make the poor people richer when the rich are taking an increasingly large share of the pie.

[-] jaek@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Do you work for arpeture science or something?

[-] jaek@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Very impressive that he managed to run rings around Piers Morgan on his own show and come out looking good. Railroading conversations is Piers Morgan's bread and butter.

[-] jaek@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Couldn't agree more. Those novelty e-celeb accounts on Reddit are getting really put of hand, aren't they, Margot Robbie

[-] jaek@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Where did you apply?

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