The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states and individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Two years into the war in Gaza and over 20 months since the International Court of Justice found it plausible that Israel's actions there could violate the Convention, Carne Ross investigates the possibility … Continue reading Is our Government Complicit in Genocide?
Frontier Genocide: The West Bank a year after the ICJ ruling on Gaza
A ceasefire has brought some respite for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip this month, amid fears that the Trump administration is signalling greater impunity for violence and intimidation by Israeli military and settlers in the West Bank. Andrew Rigby calls for urgent protection of Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta area, already experiencing a ‘frontier genocide’ by Israeli settlers.