South Africa's ridiculous claim of genocide against Israel

 Noa Tishby:

In 1944, a Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin, a refugee from Nazi-controlled Poland, documented the crimes being perpetrated against his people in his book, "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe." In this volume, Lemkin introduced a new word into the English language: genocide, which he defined as “the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.”

Later, while serving on the American legal team at the Nuremberg trials, he was able to get the word “genocide,” not yet a crime, included in the indictment against Nazi leadership − even as he learned of the Nazi murder of 49 members of his family, including his parents.

The biggest massacre of Jews since the slaughter of World War II was perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. More than 1,200 innocents were murdered, including over 300 young people attending a nature peace music festival. About 240 people were taken captive to Gaza.

Not only were civilians targeted for killing and capture, but they were subjected to torture, bodily mutilation and sexual violence. And just as Adolf Hitler telegraphed his genocidal intentions in "Mein Kampf," Hamas’ 1988 founding charter explicitly calls for the killing of Jews and the utter destruction of Israel.

Accusation of genocide against Israel is absurd

With this in mind, consider the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention), which defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

How absurd, then, how hubristic and how utterly shameful that South Africa, of all countries, would file a claim with the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of the crime of genocide.

South Africa, which prohibited Jewish immigration before and during World War II, the Jewish people’s hour of greatest need. This is part of a ghastly trend of Holocaust misappropriation by anti-Israel extremists who attempt to use the Nazi systematic murder of nearly 40% of the global Jewish population to deny Israel, the country founded by the survivors, of its right to self-defense.
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Those making such claims either don't know much about history or they are just being insulting to the Jews in Israel.