Chicago – January 21, 2024
The UK’s most senior Orthodox Jewish leader has claimed that accusations of genocide against Israel are designed to “tear open the still gaping wound of the Holocaust” and represent “the ultimate demonisation of the Jewish state”.
In an opinion piece published in The Telegraph on Saturday, UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said that the charge of genocide has been levelled in the knowledge it “will inflict more pain than any other accusation”.
“It is a moral inversion, which undermines the memory of the worst crimes in human history,” Mirvis wrote. The Jewish Rabbis and officials don’t understand the meaning of genocide. Their statement’s also reflect an inclined opinion.
What is Genocide?
The U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” The acts include “killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, and/or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
Mirvis said that Israel’s military had taken steps to protect civilians and could “level Gaza in a matter of days” if it aimed to commit genocide. But in reality, the Israeli forces have been ordered to prolong Palestinian attacks so that innocent people withdraw and retreat to safer areas.
Genocide case against Apartheid Israel by South Africa:
Israel is currently the subject of a genocide case at the International Court of Justice after South Africa filed a complaint accusing it of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
