A leading body of academics on genocide has said that Israel’s ongoing actions in Gaza are genocide. The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) on Monday said that Israel’s “policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide.” The organisation, which has around 500 members worldwide, including a number of Holocaust experts, said in a resolution that “Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” within its findings, the resolution argues that Israel’s actions in response to the terrorist attack committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, have not...