Yes, it is genocide. Although it is so difficult and painful to admit this and despite all efforts to think otherwise, at the end of six months of a brutal war it is no longer possible to escape this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained with the mark of Cain of the ‘crime of crimes,’ which cannot be erased from its forehead. As such, it will stand trial for generations.

-Amos Goldberg

This is an excerpt from an article published in May 2024 by Swiss Policy Research and The Palestine Project, among other outlets. It originally appeared in Hebrew in Sicha Mekommit (Local Call), an online Israeli magazine.

Amos Goldberg is a renowned Israeli historian and Holocaust specialist who has described the IDF offensive in Gaza as genocide in articles and interviews. He is a professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a senior fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, where he also sits on the institute’s editorial board. Goldberg has published widely on the Holocaust and was the editor of the journal Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust (2004–2014). (Source: Wikipedia)

Prof. Goldberg is a leading critic of Israel’s war in Gaza.

Peace, MAA