Now Israel is guilty of genocide

We are encouraged, and encourage our children, to remember the horrors of the Holocaust.

We have pictures of mass graves of skeletal bodies, in schoolbooks, to force us to see the human cost is more than abstract numbers in a history book. My mother says she remembers, as early as her schooling in the 1960s, that they were shown footage of the camp liberations; it was important to look at the horror head-on. We are bombarded with the imagery of that genocide; quite rightly, to instil disgust in us, for a fear that it could happen again, and to resolve that it never should.

It’s happening again, in Palestine. Let no-one tell you that accusations of genocide are hyperbolic or anti-Semitic. Article II of the Genocide Convention defines the international crime of genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group such as: