Talk:Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel

Relevance of ICC chief prosecutor's visit

The ICC chief prosecutor didn't anywhere mention 'genocide'. He merely acknowledges that the ICC is prepared to investigate war crimes (of both sides?). That the Oct 7th attack was murderous is certain, but the relevance of the ICC visit isn't clear. Obviously an investigator is not going to offer an opinion either way at this stage, prior to independent ICC investigation, so why is he there? I can't read the full Haaretz piece (£££.$$$.€€€). Pincrete (talk) 10:49, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Khan's statement that Hamas members who are Palestinians or nationals of another state party to the Rome Statute, and any others who are nationals of another state party, whether Hamas members or not, are within the ICC investigation's jurisdiction, despite the action taking place on Israeli territory, is highly relevant because it took 12 years, from Palestine's initial 2009 request through to 2021 to confirm jurisdiction, and it wasn't clear (at least to me) whether the investigation was limited to Palestinian territory or not. Khan clarified his interpretation of jurisdiction.

Effectively, although the quoted sentences don't emphasize it, part of Khan's statement is that if any Hamas members participating in the 7 October attack were e.g. Syrian, US, Iranian or Russian nationals without Palestinian nationality, then they're out of jurisdiction for action committed on Israeli territory, because those four states reserve the "right" of their nationals to carry out war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide: they are not state parties. Since the media (and Israeli govt) don't seem interested in Hamas members' nationalities, we don't have explicit comments about that in the Reuters article. It's critically important legally, but without a source, best leave that implicit in the same way that Khan did. Boud (talk) 17:14, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Merge into Second Holocaust

Most of this article is WP:SYNTH as most sources in the article do not explicitly state that the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel was genocide (in fact some of the sources used in this article are from before 2023). Now some sources do make this allegation specifically, but not sure why this can't be covered at Second Holocaust? VR _talk 06:02, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

• Unless I'm missing something, this article is a rehash of the one that was deleted here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alleged Palestinian genocide of Israelis. Pinging all the participants in that discussion: Ping (BilledMammal—Iskandar323—SomethingForDeletion—Marokwitz—JMWt—nableezy—Oaktree b—Daveout—Sj—Zero0000).VR _talk 06:07, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

No - Topic is relevant and notable enough for its own stand alone article. Homerethegreat (talk) 08:16, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Merge/redirect This is a POV fork of Alleged Palestinian genocide of Israelis which after an AfD ended up as a redirect to Second Holocaust. Selfstudier (talk) 12:37, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Second holocaust is per lead: The notion of a "second Holocaust" (Hebrew: השואה השנײה, romanized: HaShoah HaShniyah) or "Another Holocaust" (שואה נוספת, Shoah Nosephet) is an assertion that the Holocaust or a similar event is recurring or will recur. It is often used to discuss real or perceived threats to the State of Israel, the Jewish people, or the Jewish way of life. ------ The Second holocaust article is on the fear of a threat of extermination of the Jewish People or Israel.

This article on it's own is notable enough a topic and has been covered enough to warrant its own standalone article. Homerethegreat (talk) 12:51, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

This article is on the allegation of genocide in the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. It is not on the fear or perceived threat of a second holocaust. It is on the allegation of a genocide committed by Hamas against Israelis in 7/10. Homerethegreat (talk) 12:52, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

@Homerethegreat But it is about that. The "attempted genocide" on 7 October is being used to speculate that, if given the chance, "Hamas" would kill millions of Jews (sometimes framed as millions of Israelis). If people claiming this wanted to make a convincing argument they could call it a Pogrom, but instead they leap straight for a very broad interpretation of "or in part" from the definition of genocide. BUT I still think this should be separate. There are no other times that the Second Holocaust fear has triggered this kind of "so we need to obliterate them first" Amalekian pre-emptive strike? This situation is unique? Hamas is in quotes because it's disconcertingly ambiguous who or what Israel is at war with? Irtapil (talk) 16:12, 7 January 2024 (UTC) edit Irtapil (talk) 18:57, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

How is this POV fork? This is a notable topic, the whole section is made up of academic discourse and its on a specific notable event on a point of time as well as government responses. Homerethegreat (talk) 13:09, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Because Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel is obviously a subtopic of Alleged Palestinian genocide of Israelis, which article did not survive AfD. This new article is just an end run around that decision. Selfstudier (talk) 13:12, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

I agree, this is a POV fork to attempt to get around the deletion of the first article. Oaktree b (talk) 14:14, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. Deletion or the moving of this subject to another page is probably useful. Scientelensia (talk) 12:25, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

@Scientelensia

But any article we move it to will get derailed? e.g. It would be a terrible idea to put it with the mirror image article, because that makes the ideas look like they have equal merit? People would try to balance the article by making it seem equal?

The only merging or combining that might work is to put it with other claims made about 7 October? e.g. 40 decapitated babies?

It sort of fits with the controversy about whether sexual assaults were a systematic and intentional part of the attack, but I think that could also go wrong. They are very different controversies.

17:32, 7 January 2024 (UTC) Irtapil (talk) 17:32, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Possibly, I see what you mean. It’s difficult. Scientelensia (talk) 13:20, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

The 7 October genocide idea is already in the War crimes in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war article, but that is about what happened already. Whereas the "Hamas are genocidal" claim as a hypothetical, which is a lot of what this article is about, is a big part of the Israeli government's justification for why they need to completely obliterate Hamas, even if that means obliterating multiple civilian cities in the process.

00:41, 8 January 2024 (UTC) Irtapil (talk) 00:41, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@Selfstudier But the dubious claims are being used to justify the real thing, so I think we need to have this article, same reason we need other articles on dubious concepts, to put them in their proper context. Deleting the article doesn't delete the idea. Irtapil (talk) 16:16, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

No - The topic meets notability guidelines and is much better served in a dedicated article. This is not a POVFORK; it seems whoever makes this claim has never actually read that policy. POVFORK refers to two articles on the same subject expressing different points of view. The scope of Second holocaust is completely different so the idea this is a POVFORK is absurd. Furthermore, this article is only weakly related to the idea of "second holocaust". Very few reliable sources express the viewpoint that the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel was a "second Holocaust"; the number of victims is of a different order of magnitude. However, many genocide scholars interpret the intentions of the mass killings on October 7 as meeting the legal definition of genocide. Marokwitz (talk) 20:17, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

• Merge into more appropriate articles, whichever they might be (e.g. 2023 Israel–Hamas war, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, etc). The accusation is not notable on its own. If an open letter is all that it takes to declare a genocide then Israel is guilty of genocide as well. The attack was a standard terrorist attack within a standard war. The word genocide has been cheapened lately.

–Daveout(talk) 21:54, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

• No - Second Holocaust might need a short section in referring to this as the main article. But it keep separate. This is a strange special case of what the accusation is being used to justify, so keep it stand alone. The only thing it might fit in as a merge is War crimes in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. But I still think this should stay separate. Irtapil (talk) 20:25, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

• Wait until the article is better edited to see how viable it is as a standalone article. The core of this article, genocide experts' claim that the attack constitutes genocide (rather than a crime against humanity), is the Academic and legal discourse section, and the strongest part of that seems to be an etherpad statement apparently agreed upon and signed by many legal experts, and referred to by mainstream media. The etherpad statement is archived, and there don't seem to be any doubts about the signees' signatures.
  A big current weakness is that the Background/Hamas ideology section needs to have sources that clearly say that their claim of genocidal intent is mainly based on Hamas' long-term policies and statements. (I haven't looked through the sources to see if that claim is clearly stated, except that in the 100s-of-experts-statement, there is As these widespread, horrendous acts appear to have been carried out with an 'intent to destroy, in whole or in part' a national group – Israelis – a goal explicitly declared by Hamas, without giving much of specifically who, when, in what documents or statements the intent to destroy was established and maintained over many decades. A policy set nearly half a century ago - just before the Cold War ended - doesn't sound like strong evidence of Hamas' intent in 2023.) I suspect that the article will be justified as standalone after the general quality is improved. Boud (talk) 18:06, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

References

Lack of Neutrality/Bias

• There are sections for public and academic discourse, yet this discourse seems only to be in favour of this characterisation of the attacks of ‘genocide’. More needs to be added for the opposite side, as it is quite rare for one series of attacks to be termed a genocide throughout history. In the Palestinian genocide accusation article, both sides of teh argument are at least clearly represented.
• No criticism of the characterisation is used in the lede, whereas this is standard and is done in the Palestinian genocide accusation article.
• The use of the ‘Antisemitism in Islam’ accusation could potentially be seen as offensive. This conflict does not regard the whole of Islam, rather the 2023 Israel and Palestine/Hamas conflict and so just Palestine. Thus, the Racism in the State of Palestine article and/or the Antisemitism during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war article (seeing as this whole article only concerns the 2023 attacks) are more appropriate to be used, in my opinion.
• We need to collaborate to share thoughts and improve this article, which is arguably not yet suitable for consumption (although to me it has the makings of a strong article).

Scientelensia (talk) 12:39, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. A 97.103.129.121 (talk) 09:29, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

I'm a Muslim, I don't care if something is "offensive". What I do care about is these allegations are thrown around without sufficient sourcing. Can anyone provide sources that the Islamic religion motivated a genocide against Israel on October 7? VR _talk 02:28, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. Scientelensia (talk) 11:55, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@Vice regent

I strongly believe it didn't. There are a lot of ethically questionable thing about that day, but they weren't genocidal, and if Hamas are genocidal (they're not, but if) it's because they're nationalists. If anything, their religious beliefs seem to reduce the risk. The announcement on 7 October even included the phrase, "don't hurt the old or the young, but fight", but I've only been able to find about 90 seconds of the 11 minute speech translated.

But this article does currently have a few sources to back up the claims. There are probably far more or better sources saying the oppiste, but I'm not really sure where to start looking for them?

Irtapil (talk) 06:09, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

@Scientelensia

"More needs to be added for the opposite side, as it is quite rare for one series of attacks to be termed a genocide throughout history." The article definitely urgently needs that. If you can find some reliable sources please share them here.

If you can't edit the article but you want to help, you can draft sections of text with citations and post them here with suggestions of where they should be included.

And I agree this article is a mess that probably, "not yet suitable for consumption" but I argued to not just delete it because otherwise similar terrible articles keep reappearing, whereas keeping it means we can turn it into something that gives the idea it's proper context.

I also think it needs to be its own stand alone article, because it's likely to derail almost anything we merge it with? But we could broaden it into "genocide accusations against Hamas".

Irtapil (talk) 05:48, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

I think this would be more appropriate.

I can edit the article, but am quite busy so decided to speak on my concerns rather than address them – sorry. Scientelensia (talk) 17:54, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Are there any reliable sources from notable experts on genocide stating that the attack was not genocide? If nobody is trying to remove such sources with his/her editing behaviour, then there is no NPOV dispute. Please use {{diff}} to show unconstructive edits if you believe that there are edits attempting to remove sources like this. Boud (talk) 16:53, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

I’m sure there are, and I am suggesting that, in order to make the page less biased, we add them to the page. Scientelensia (talk) 18:40, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Unless you (or someone else) lists those sources, then there is no POV dispute. A POV editing dispute is when editors have difficulty reaching consensus on editing the page, based on known sources, or when there is a dispute about how to summarise the content of the sources, or which sources qualify as reliable, or what counts as due balance. When someone believes that some sources should exist, but cannot provide them, that is not a POV dispute. If you just want to leave open the recommendation for people to search for sources, that's fine.

WP:NPOV is not about neutrality, it's about neutral POV. For example, the Adolf Hitler article is extremely non-neutral - it presents him as (roughly speaking) the most evil person of the twentieth century - since that's what the sources overwhelmingly say.

Do you (or anyone else) have any objections to removing the {{POV}} tag? The invitation to people to search for more sources wouldn't seem like a valid objection to me.

I think the {{unbalanced section}} tag should be discussed separately - the section rather needs major rewriting and restructuring overall, so even if this is not the best tag, it's probably OK until someone proposes a better tag or proposes how to rewrite the section. Boud (talk) 18:17, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

@Boud

I think part of the problem is that most people's response to the idea of a "genocidal" terrorist attack is "you're kidding"? It's not a concept serious scholars bother rebutting in detail. Hamas et al. killed 20 kids, then the IDF killed >8000, the idea that the first attack was a genocide is crazy, especially when it's usually a claim being made by people trying to claim than killing 8000 kids is NOT genocide?

Multiple things Hamas et al. did that day were war crimes, if you want to say it was motivated by racism, you could call it a "hate crime", a "lynch mob", or even a "pogrom". But the people making the claim aren't saying that, they're jumping straight to hyperbole, severely stretching the definition of "or in part", that's why previous versions of this article just got deleted.

But i think i will check that edit history just in case…

Irtapil (talk) 06:31, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

A problem with the entire conception is that Hamas is not a state although individuals within it can be found guilty of war crimes. Selfstudier (talk) 11:39, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

@Irtapil: There are several people currently cited in the article who would appear to be genocide scholars. If other genocide scholars consider the cited scholars to be non-serious, but have chosen to not publicly rebut the claims, then that's irrelevant to Wikipedia. The current estimate per Wikipedia is 800 civilians killed in the attack; whether or not the Israeli response is genocide is at best only marginally relevant to this article. The article definitely needs considerable work to be improved, but so far there's no evidence of a Wikipedia:NPOV dispute: The editor who adds the tag should address the issues on the talk page, pointing to specific issues that are actionable within the content policies, ... Simply being of the opinion that a page is not neutral is not sufficient to justify the addition of the tag.

@Selfstudier: There's no problem for this article with Hamas not being a state. A case against Palestine in the ICJ could hypothetically be lodged by another state (such as the US or Israel or, say, Mongolia), and evidence for cases against Palestinian individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide for their participation in the 7 October attack is being collected by the ICC in its investigation. We don't currently have an ICJ case. We won't know specific ICC charges, or against who, until some time in the future. This article covers claims ("allegations") of genocide "in" the 7 October attack - the strength of these claims is disputable, but currently there is consensus that the topic is valid as a standalone article, with the scope defined by the title.

I currently don't see anyone presenting reasons to retain the {{POV}} tag (unless there has been a specific edit battle that needs resolving?). One more quote: Do not use this template to "warn" readers about the article. Boud (talk) 18:39, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

I am not worried about the tag. Selfstudier (talk) 18:47, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

My reasons for retaining the tag are listed at the top of this discussion: primarily a lack of neutrality(!) Scientelensia (talk) 19:12, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

I wouldn't worry too much about this article, tbh. Selfstudier (talk) 19:18, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

@Scientelensia: Lack of neutrality does not justify the tag. The acronym NPOV has POV in it. Not just N. You are effectively arguing in favour of replacing {{POV}} by {{fringe}}, e.g. you stated It's not a concept serious scholars bother rebutting in detail ... the idea that the first attack was a genocide is crazy. But we don't (yet?) have the sources that establish the ((edit) possible) mainstream POV, so it would be difficult to justify the {{fringe}} tag. Boud (talk) 23:12, 13 January 2024 (UTC) (minor fix to clarify that I don't see evidence of what conceivably might be the mainstream, but sourceless, POV) Boud (talk) 12:46, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

I started a section at the NPOV noticeboard (here until archived) to try to get help in separating out the specific issues in this article versus the relevance of the POV tag. Boud (talk) 12:46, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Insufficient context

• The context in the article introduces Hamas, yet some text could be devoted to explaining the beginning of the formation of Hamas in relation to the Israel-Palestine conflict in general. (e.g. reasons for formation, context within the first Intifada, formed by who?)
• This is simply a suggestion, discussion is of course welcome.

Scientelensia (talk) 12:55, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

I agree that context etc can be useful, however lots of content was removed on grounds of SYNTH... Homerethegreat (talk) 11:12, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

@Iskandar323 pinging you since this is relevant discussion. Can you explain why you think lots of content on charter, background and etc should be removed... Homerethegreat (talk) 14:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@Homerethegreat

I think they should be included, at least briefly, because that old 1988 charter is constantly quoted to accuse them of antisemitism or genocidal ambitious. It is kind of the core of the accusation. Irtapil (talk) 22:03, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

You get relevant context without synth from sources mentioning the subject and mentioning the context. Iskandar323 (talk) 16:19, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@Homerethegreat: the material you have re-added largely predates the topic and so is still OR/SYNTH. Since WP:OR is policy and a core content pillar, this is non-negotiable - nothing written on talk can magically make synth permissable. Background sections aren't something editors get to just make up out of thin air. Each source must be directly connected to the subject, which sources that predate the event this page refers to clearly do not - not least direly dated material from 1992. Please clean up your own mess here. Violating core policies in a contentious topic area is fairly disruptive, and more so when repeated. I would prefer not to have to waste my time escalating this. Iskandar323 (talk) 21:03, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hey Iskandar, I don't think its the case. You can see there is content and sources including experts that also directly connect (therefore not synth or OR). For example Bruce Hoffman, Dr. Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen... Homerethegreat (talk) 09:00, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

@Homerethegreat

The article is about an accusation. The 1988 charter is often included in that accusation. If it's looking like synth then I think the problem is that are missing something rather than something needing removal.

It sounds like we're missing examples of the accusation actually using the charter as part of their argument?

We're missing the thing the page is about?

But there is heaps on terrorism, a thing the page is not about.

Irtapil (talk) 22:07, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Even more information was removed... Also relevant information that is sourced... Homerethegreat (talk) 08:34, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

@Scientelensia

Formed by Yassin, who was born in Ashkelon, and then in 1948 his family were forced to relocate to Gaza? Irtapil (talk) 21:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

I’m sorry, I’m not so clear as to what you are talking about. Scientelensia (talk) 22:05, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Scientelensia

I was asking what background you meant? And asking if that was the kind of background you had in mind re "who formed it"? Irtapil (talk) 22:12, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Yes, in a way actually. I was also thinking the origins of foundations and why it was formed if sufficient reasons can be formed. Also recent activity of the group before 2023, and previous allegations of genocide. Etc. Scientelensia (talk) 22:16, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Scientelensia

When did they switch from suicide bombings to mass shootings? That seems somewhat relevant. Blokes in body armour with machine guns are pretty much the exact the opposite of a suicide bomber? and that's interesting. Though maybe that belongs more on the general page bout Hamas? If it's not already… Irtapil (talk) 22:11, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Hmmm, yes: that is interesting. Possibly because when they decided to ramp up their attacks/resistance they decided to use guns and less suicidal bombers because the latter is unsustainable in a long conflict. Scientelensia (talk) 22:13, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Synthesis and other templates

I've added several templates to the article. Here are my justifications [1] [2] [3]. This article has serious problems. It apports few useful informational value, and basically only serves to create a WP:FALSEBALANCE situation with articles like Palestinian genocide accusation. Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 16:35, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

There is scholarship and sources on the issue. Regarding false balance, I hardly think there is need to compare the article to Palestinian genocide accusation. This article is modeled on the allegations of genocide against Ukraine. Regarding synth, go to the discussion above and see that on the contrary, there is a feeling there there is insufficient context. Homerethegreat (talk) 17:41, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

The article on Ukraine is much more serious, with an international investigation ongoing if I understood correctly, the whole article is simply more developed and opinions of scholars are not simply listed but complemented into a coherent text with a point. About synthesis, it is clear it is a present worry of several users so I recommend leaving the template some time now that the AfD has closed. Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 17:47, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

@Homerethegreat

Against Ukraine or in Ukraine? Irtapil (talk) 22:19, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

There are serious sources for the article. There does not seem to be an issue of WP:SYNTH here, see the discussion above. Dovidroth (talk) 08:04, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

@Super Dromaeosaurus

It's an article about an accusation, an accusation currently being used to promote a real genocide.

Or that is what it should be about.

But last time I read it, it was mostly about terrorism? Which is almost the opposite of Genocide, other than being violent. They are both violence, but done by an opposite type of actor, for the opposite reasons.

If anything this long rambling thing about how they're religious terrorists makes a case for them NOY being genocidal.

Irtapil (talk) 22:18, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 30 December 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Consensus is against a page move at this time. (closed by non-admin page mover) SkyWarrior 00:46, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

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Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel → Allegations of genocide during the Israel–Hamas war – For a broader article scope (possibly still include the year if this is an issue, i.e. Allegations of genocide during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war). GnocchiFan (talk) 21:57, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose - Israel and Hamas have been at war for a looong time.

Kire1975 (talk) 23:16, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose. "Allegations of genocide during the Israel–Hamas war" would be a very different page with a much broader scope. Perhaps one can just create such new page, where this page covering only the attack by Hamas would be a sub-page. My very best wishes (talk) 00:25, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

• Support anything other than the current POV-pushing mash-up. Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 19:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Oppose We already had a merge request with another article and lots of reasons were presented there regarding notability and GNG and I think they also apply here. Homerethegreat (talk) 20:03, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose that would fundamentally change the scope of the article, overstepping the complimentary Israeli article. Yeoutie (talk) 16:27, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Live Steam of South Africa at the ICJ

Live Steam of South Africa at the ICJ from South African TV news network SABC News on YouTube https://m.youtube.com/live/4f_yoal4gx8 "Live Steam of South Africa at the ICJ on the YouTube channel of National TV network" Irtapil (talk) 10:22, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Putting here to include in article if it stays up as a recoding, but also likely to interest many people here as background. Irtapil (talk) 10:22, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3 Selfstudier (talk) 18:22, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

@Selfstudier

Thank you, that is a much better reference. Do you know where to find a full transcript? Irtapil (talk) 22:22, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Israel on trial at ICJ

The response from Israel at the ICJ and commentary on it might be useful to cite? Irtapil (talk) 21:47, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Bias and constructed narrative

There's an immense lack of sourcing in the article to support the title's claim of a Hamas-led genocide against Israelis.

This type of article is common on Wikipedia where it seems to pre-emptively construct a narrative that is at odds with what is happening on the ground and what is reported on by media.

The Hamas terror attack on a single day doesn't constitute a genocide. To date, Israel has killed more than 1% of people in Gaza in 5 months (2 thirds are women and children). That's an equivalent of 3 million Americans dead in 5 months.

On the other hand, we have Israeli politicians calling for Gaza to be depopulated, turned into Auschwitz Museum, etc. Not to mention their actual actions of withholding aid, killing indiscriminately, ethnic cleansing. None of that fits with what Hamas did on Oct 7th; especially when Israel is on trial at the ICJ for genocide.

Also, the use of genocide in the title is used to mislead readers into reading the dubious claims made in this article. I consider it biased and Zionist propaganda.

I propose the contents of this article be merged into an appropriate and existing article or deleted. Maqdisi (talk) 08:08, 25 March 2024 (UTC)