Fake Experts Accuse Israel of Genocide
Turns out anyone can join the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
A month ago, I wrote about the top eight Gaza War hoaxes. The granddaddy of them all is the Israel is committing a genocide hoax—because all libels are pointing to this indictment.
It’s nonsense of course—there is no credible evidence of massacres or intent to slaughter as required by the Genocide Convention, only minimal, for urban warfare, collateral damage. The genocide case against Israel brought before ICC fell apart. Yet unfortunately until Israel wins the war on the ground and takes itself out of the headlines, blood libels will be flooding the media.
The latest one is the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) vote to declare that Israel is guilty of the willful annihilation of the Gaza population. The NGO’s statement was immediately transformed into headlines on Al Jazeera and ideologically aligned western outlets, including BBC, BBC UK, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, ABC Australia, PBS, Newsweek, Time and the Washington Post among others.
That world leading experts declaring genocide in Gaza was too perfect of a headline for the media zeitgeist to miss. And of course, the declaration was a hatchet job.
Sarah E. Brown, a longstanding member of IAGS and the director of the American Jewish Committee in San Diego, wrote for The Forward about her efforts to stop the resolution. She explained that IAGS did no original studies, relying instead on highly biased antizionist sources like Amnesty International which rewrote its definition of genocide in order to implicate Israel. She explained that the resolution hardly represents consensus of its members and who voted for it is unknown:
I fought this resolution and lost. Out of an estimated 500 members, 108 voted to pass this resolution (per IAGS, for a resolution to pass, it requires a 2/3 majority from a quorum of at least 20% plus one of all paid-up IAGS members). I tried to advocate for transparency, but the leadership refused to disclose who authored this resolution. I was promised a forum for scholarly debate and discussion, but no town hall was held.
These estimated 500 members are themselves peculiar. A small Twitter/X account @scorpi0n_ discovered that that at the time of Simchat Torah Massacre just 144 individuals were affiliated with the group, so most of its growth came after the attack on the Jewish state. The Honest Reporting author Salo Aizenberg noted that IAGS encouraged activists to join and that 80 members are from Iraq. Considering the prevalence of hardcore antisemitism in the Arab and Muslim world, is it possible that the IAGS passed the anti-Israel resolution on the strength of the Iraqi hate vote?
Moreover, while the global media told its audiences that the resolution was written by experts who belong to an organization of scholars, in IAGS’s hands these words are as meaningless as apartheid and genocide in the mouth of an antizionist. As it turns out, IAGS is not selective at all—anyone can buy IAGS membership for thirty bucks.
On September 2, Aizenberg joined the organization himself, with the full intent of participating and expressing regret that he connected too late to vote on the Gaza genocide agenda. Next, American lawyer Elliot Malin and the writer Leslie Kajomovitz followed his example. Finally, the Israeli writer Eitan Fischberger announced:
Time for a career shift.
I am officially a Genocide Scholar.
Humbled to join the ranks of my esteemed colleagues, @Aizenberg55, @ElliotMalin, and @kikas6652.
Now to update my Twitter bio.
Fischberger added the screenshot of his AIGS bio, inspiring other budding “scholars” to buy the $30 memberships. Among its newly minted experts were Emperor Palatine, Obi wan Cannoli and Adolf Hitler who boasted of knowing “a thing or two about genocide”.
By Wednesday, IAGS caught up with the troll, turned off its application page and deactivated all new members. They deleted their X account and issued a statement confirming every accusation leveled at them by Zionist activists, complaining about not feeling safe and boasting of attracting community scholars. For no avail Fischberger asked for a refund.
Any organization can claim to be an expert on genocide and recruit enough members committed to the destruction of Israel to say that the Jewish state is guilty of it. A functional media would weed out such imposters. Unfortunately, our media is uninterested in vetting its headlines—or even retracting the items proven to be untrue. In the current climate, news consumers should be advised to assume that everything they hear about Israel is an op until proven otherwise. That includes New York Times front page stories like the fake famine picture they published in July.
As for genocide, it really did happen during the Gaza War. What transpired in southern Israel on October 7, 2023 was genocide. It was unusual in a way that the perpetrators accused the Jewish state of that of which they are guilty themselves. Avraham Russel Shalev of Kohelet Policy Forum recently wrote a paper concluding that:
Hamas’ October 7 attack constitutes genocide under international law. This conclusion rests on three interconnected pillars. First, the physical acts committed—the systematic killing of over 1,200 Israelis, accompanied by torture, sexual violence, and mutilations—satisfy the actus reus requirement of the Genocide Convention. Second, Hamas’ specific intent to destroy Israeli Jews is evident through multiple channels: its foundational ideology of eliminationist antisemitism, its decades-long systematic policy of incitement, its detailed operational planning for mass killing, and explicit statements by its leadership before and during the attack.
What distinguishes this case, however, is the third element: the immediate deployment of reverse genocide accusation against the victims.
This is what the media defenders of Gaza call “every accusation is a confession,” only they direct their venom against the Jews. The Jewish case is persuasive. Will the media ever give it a minute of their attention?
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The same 51 intelligence officers I’m sure
There is something weirdly fitting about DW – a German “news” organization – licking the boots of a virulently anti-Semitic group falsely claiming genocide in Gaza.
How long before DW starts running “Schicklgruber wuz framed!” stories?
Scholars
It seems to me scholars now rank down with used car salesman, politicians, and lawyers in terms of honesty and trustworthiness. Congratulations you bottom feeding, scum sucking, pseudo-elitist. narcissistic, progressive globalists. You’ve reached the absolute nadir of your existence.
“Any organization can claim to be an expert on genocide and recruit enough members committed to the destruction of Israel to say that the Jewish state is guilty of it.”
That people are so demented to make such an organization is not a sign of good character. Sad that the human capacity for malice is so prevalent these days, and through ignorance coutesy of social media, so easily brought to the fore.
The insanity not only continues, but grows exponentially.
This does not end well.
A better headline would’ve been “International Association of Genocide Scholars Exposed as Anti-Semites”!
Perhaps also “International Association of BS Scholars” would work.
Genocide got a bad name coincidentally with the Holocaust. Before that it was just killing a bunch of people in an area until their bad atitude improved, not anything to get in the way of being allies, like the Russians and the Polish officer corps.
It’s not being an expert on genocide so much as cancelling the Holocaust Card for external political use.
Bring up self defense, in this case, not genocide or the Holocaust.
Disgusting comment! Idiotic, too. Why pretend to be a deep thinker when it’s more obvious by the day the reality shows us a bigoted dullard that thinks life consists of playing cards and that people will be persuaded by the idiocy offered.
Kant places disgust at the heart of aesthetic sensibility, according to Derrida in “Economesisis.”
Who cares what Derrida says? What an inane response. It makes the original comment no less disgusting and idiotic. Probably moreso. Get a clue.
That’s like thinking who cares what Goedel says. Same result only applied to rigorously worked out theories of this and that.
It’s a fundamental error and turns up all over. Somewhat reduced by advanced age, when there’s a feeling that principles are as affected by the things that they talk about, requiring an iteration or so to decide if they apply. What Trump can do and Vance can’t do.
No it’s not. It’s exactly what is said. Who cares? But even that seems well over your head. You can try to say what you mean, silly as it is, but it is not your place not tell someone what they mean or what arguments to make, when again, you have no clue on multiple levels.
What distinguishes Derrida from academic postmodernists is that Derrida loves the systems he analyzes, whereas the academics hate the systems they analyze. Derrida as a result gets insights where the academics, as is obvious everywhere, get rejection.
In both cases the postmodernist result is that the foundations don’t found themselves. The academics say “so throw away the system” where Derrida says “So here are the dynamics that make the unfounded system nevertheless work.”
One’s interesting and the other is popular.
You may say that nothing interests you.
Look at it this way. The genocide experts are calling hypocrisy on the Jews, in essence. You can’t get moral one-upmanship with the Holocaust card and at the same time kill off Palestinians.
Hypocrisy is about the lamest card ever played – every teenager calls it on adults – but it hurts Israel precisely because they play the Holocaust card as part of their very identity. It produces alienation, which produces cohesion. So a lot seems to be at stake instead of nothing being at stake.
I say instead forget the Holocaust card. Go with self defense, and go with lists of moral actions obviously coming out of Judaism and the complete lack of good things to say about Palestinians.
Look at it this way. The comments are the ramblings of a fool that make no difference. Clear enough? Not to mention the underlying bigotry is disgusting. How many time is it necessary to communicate these points. One would think a smart person might get a hint.
The Polish officer corps was not a racial group, so a term like “genocide” is not relevant. The word is overused to refer to any kind of killing. Saying that October 7 was “genocide” is also foolish. A military strike against civilian targets is a different matter.
Unfortunately reports like this are picked up by the leftist media and blasted 24/7 to reinforce the idea that the Jews are killing innocent Palestinians on purpose.
The sole purpose of the report is to demonise the Jews, which the media blasts for all they are worth to continue to condition people to hate Jews.
And when they’re debunked, well then the MSM completely lose interest in the story because they have zero interest in reporting the truth.
Per Google and Al Jazeera about 65,000 of the 2.1 million Gaza population, or about 3%, has been killed in just under 2 years, most of whom would have been Hamas fighters. Given that Israel had the capacity to wipe out 100% of the population on October 8, this “genocide” may go down in history as the most incompetently ever conducted. /s
The “world’s leading association of genocide scholars”? Neither the whole world, nor a leading association, nor scholars. I think Voltaire noted something similar about the Holy Roman Empire, but I’m not a scholar myself.
So, for a mere $30 USD, you can become a Genocide Scholar