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A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza. My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Israel would create a ghetto which would quickly become a concentration camp on the ruins of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

World in transition

For 18 days, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.

Israel’s defense minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme that legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.

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