podcast
A majority of international experts, legal scholars, historians, and human rights organizations, including the UN Commission, describe Israel's attack on life, urban structures, and livelihoods in Gaza as genocide. The violence and destruction following Hamas' murderous attack have reached a scale rarely seen in recent history. Nevertheless, the debate about the applicability of the term “genocide” in Germany continues to spark heated discussions in legal, political, and academic circles. The discussion at HAU attempts to intervene in this debate by providing an analysis of the extensive facts about the situation on the ground in Gaza and placing the attack in the context of the history of genocides since the introduction of international law after the Holocaust.