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Source: https://x.com/BoyGeorge/status/2097762415933026379
Thousands Sign Letter Rejecting Genocide Charge Against Israel
(Creative Community for Peace) More than 5,000 leaders and public figures from entertainment, academia, literature, government, business, religion and civic life have joined an open letter rejecting the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and warning that the charge has become a dangerous vehicle for scapegoating Jews and fueling antisemitism around the world. Signers included former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, former senior U.S. diplomat Elliott Abrams, historian Benny Morris, Amb. Deborah Lipstadt, Prof. Jonathan D. Sarna, Prof. Judea Pearl, and urban-warfare expert Maj. (ret.) John Spencer. The letter says: "We the undersigned are outraged and sickened by the latest blood libel to be inflicted on the Jewish people: the lie that Israel committed 'genocide' in Gaza. We reject this accusation with contempt. A crucial difference between war as tragedy and war as genocide is intent. In this war, only one side intended to commit genocide, and that is Hamas." "Thousands of rockets and missiles were fired at Israel in the weeks following the [Oct. 7] massacre, while Hamas starved and tortured 250 Israelis, some of whom were murdered in captivity. The classic definition of genocide has been changed to apply only to the Gaza war....We note with astonishment but not surprise the overwhelming silence of Israel's defamers in the face of the atrocities of Iran - perhaps 30,000 civilians murdered in two days, one of the great crimes of our time."