genocide Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/genocide/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:54:13 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Australia urged to act after Israel genocide finding https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-urged-to-act-after-israel-genocide-finding/ https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-urged-to-act-after-israel-genocide-finding/#respond Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:54:13 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=173128 Australia is being urged to take action against Israel after its war in Gaza was branded an act of genocide against Palestinians. Leaders from 20 major aid agencies have decried an unprecedented humanitarian situation in Gaza, where Israel is throttling aid and supplies as the official death toll tallied by the local health ministry nears […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-urged-to-act-after-israel-genocide-finding/feed/ 0 173128 Gaza report reignites debate over UN Commission’s credibility https://www.jwire.com.au/gaza-report-reignites-debate-over-un-commissions-credibility/ https://www.jwire.com.au/gaza-report-reignites-debate-over-un-commissions-credibility/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:49:55 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=173124 Israel sharply rejected a new United Nations report accusing it of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, calling the findings “distorted and false” and dismissing the authors as “Hamas proxies” on Tuesday. The 72-page report, released by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, claimed that Israel is carrying out […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/gaza-report-reignites-debate-over-un-commissions-credibility/feed/ 1 173124 Hollywood pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions https://www.jwire.com.au/hollywood-pledge-to-boycott-israeli-film-institutions/ https://www.jwire.com.au/hollywood-pledge-to-boycott-israeli-film-institutions/#respond Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:50:43 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=172877 Some prominent Hollywood figures have signed a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions they say are “implicated in genocide” of the Palestinian people. Some prominent Hollywood names are among the filmmakers and industry figures who’ve signed a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions – including festivals, broadcasters and production companies – that are “implicated in […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/hollywood-pledge-to-boycott-israeli-film-institutions/feed/ 0 172877 Australia urged to act as experts declare Gaza genocide https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-urged-to-act-as-experts-declare-gaza-genocide/ https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-urged-to-act-as-experts-declare-gaza-genocide/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:48:10 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=172653 Australia cannot wait until international courts decide that a genocide is happening in Gaza, an expert says, urging the government to take imminent action. Australia has been urged to break from its “poor track record” and take action immediately as world-leading scholars declared Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The International Association of Genocide Scholars […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-urged-to-act-as-experts-declare-gaza-genocide/feed/ 2 172653 What’s happening in Gaza is not genocide: Biden https://www.jwire.com.au/whats-happening-in-gaza-is-not-genocide-biden/ https://www.jwire.com.au/whats-happening-in-gaza-is-not-genocide-biden/#comments Tue, 21 May 2024 06:56:27 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=158622 US President Joe Biden has strongly defended Israel, saying Israeli forces are not committing genocide in their military campaign against Hamas militants in Gaza in a rejection of criticism from pro-Palestinian protesters. “What’s happening in Gaza is not genocide. We reject that,” Biden said at a Jewish American Heritage Month event at the White House. […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/whats-happening-in-gaza-is-not-genocide-biden/feed/ 1 158622 The ICJ and the crime of genocide https://www.jwire.com.au/the-icj-and-the-crime-of-genocide/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-icj-and-the-crime-of-genocide/#respond Fri, 12 Jan 2024 05:47:05 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=154936 The definition of genocide was coined in 1944 by Jewish Lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who promoted the establishment of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, in the aftermath of the Holocaust committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people during WWII. Often seen as the “crime […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-icj-and-the-crime-of-genocide/feed/ 0 154936 NZ Labour labels Israel’s attack on Gaza as genocide https://www.jwire.com.au/genocide/ https://www.jwire.com.au/genocide/#comments Thu, 07 Dec 2023 03:54:34 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=153610 New Zealand Labour has labelled Israel’s attacks in Gaza as genocide in a parliamentary debate that ended with unanimous support for “urgent steps towards a ceasefire”. Foreign Minister Winston Peters moved a government motion on the Israel-Hamas conflict on Thursday, expressing “grave concern at the ongoing violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories”. The […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/genocide/feed/ 2 153610 ECAJ says no to using Parliament to deny genocide https://www.jwire.com.au/ecaj-says-no-to-using-parliament-to-deny-genocide/ https://www.jwire.com.au/ecaj-says-no-to-using-parliament-to-deny-genocide/#respond Wed, 20 Nov 2013 02:00:20 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=38463 American Professor Justin McCarthy campaigns around the world against the recognition of the Armenian genocide…and has been to use Parliament House as a venue.

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