Within days of Hamas’ massacre of innocents in Israel, Professor Raz Segal was attacking Israel for committing genocide in Gaza.
The war had barely started–in fact, Israeli troops hadn’t even entered Gaza when he published his piece accusing Israel in Jewish Currents.
But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians. I have written about settler colonialism and Jewish supremacy in Israel, the distortion of the Holocaust to boost the Israeli arms industry, the weaponization of antisemitism accusations to justify Israeli violence against Palestinians, and the racist regime of Israeli apartheid. Now, following Hamas’s attack on Saturday and the mass murder of more than 1,000 Israeli…
