Why genocide experts believe Israel is guilty of the crime of crimes
Since stopping aid deliveries in March more and more nations and International law experts have accused Israel not only of war crimes but of the much more serious international crime of genocide, a deeply contested claim. But what constitutes genocide and what should nations who are signatories to the UN declaration be doing to stop it?
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Dr Omar Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University
Dr Simon Adams, former Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Sareta Ashraph, a barrister specialising in international criminal law
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