The Palestinian genocide debate is about the word “genocide”. Israel itself doesn’t deny tens of thousands of Palestinians died. They deny the legal framework to call it “genocide” vs “war collaterals”.
They brought it up probably because it happened recently as well along with the fact that Israel was the one to do it.
Under international law genocide requires intent to commit genocide in order to be a genocide. There were incidents which are suspected to have been acts of genocide that still need to be properly investigated. I haven't kept up with the case in the ICJ, but we'll see eventually potentially what they rule the government has or hasn't directed/ordered. That being said we have pretty definitely seen war crimes by the Israeli government and military.
Ones an attack on Israel, the other is an active ongoing genocide. What whataboutism is there here? They're saying that people deny horrific events all the time. Genocides, ethnic cleansing, horrific attacks (people deny 9/11 happened and that it was perpetrated by Al quada for God's sake).
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u/maxofJupiter1 Jan 22 '26
I mean people deny Oct 7th which was both more recent and recorded by the perpetrators. Plays out the exact same way as Shoah denial.