Many respected scholars and human rights organizations have characterised Israel’s war in Gaza as a genocide. At the same time, other scholars and organizations have disputed this charge. Proving a charge of genocide is notoriously difficult, since it requires...

The New York Times columnist Bret Stephens recently claimed that Israel is “manifestly not committing genocide”. His key argument is that if Israel were committing genocide, the war would have been “vastly more deadly”. In actual fact, he notes, the death toll...

According to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, 12,000 people in Gaza have been killed since the start of the current Israel–Hamas war. While some people including President Biden have claimed the figure cannot be trusted, a senior U.S. official recently stated that...