25 Highly Respected Organizations Say Israel’s Committing Genocide

The debate is over.

We all have someone in our life who still refuses to believe Israel is committing genocide. They might say “I don’t like what’s going on there.” Or “I don’t agree with Netanyahu.” Or “war is always ugly”. But they refuse to use the word “genocide.” It might be your mom or your dad or your aunt or your dental hygienist. It might be all of them. That’s why I wanted to write this article for anyone to share.

The 25 organizations on the following list are not radical or “fringe,” whatever that means. They are all highly regarded. Some of them were quite quick to realize Israel’s actions constitute genocide by the dictionary definition — Well, really by any definition — and others took far too long. But every single group on this list now says unequivocally that Israel is perpetrating the first live-streamed genocide.

And if it needs repeating, the genocide has not stopped with the so-called ceasefire. Israel has violated the ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days and killed hundreds. As I wrote about recently, they have already ethnically cleansed 58% of Gaza, and they are letting in only a fraction of the agreed-upon aid shipments in order to continue the genocide via starvation and illness.

Here’s the list with links to each organization’s statement, report, or investigation. I got some of them from Palestine historian Zachary Foster. Follow him on X. These groups represent doctors, lawyers, nurses, Jews, non-Jews, scholars, and so much more.

1. Amnesty International

2. Human Rights Watch
3. B’Tselem
4. Doctors Without Borders
5. International Assoc. Of Genocide Scholars
6. Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights
7. UN Human Rights Office of The High Commissioner
8. UN Commission of Inquiry

9. Palestinian Center for Human Rights
10. Al-Haq human rights org
11. War on Want
12. Veterans for Peace
13. Physicians for Human Rights
14. Within Our Lifetime

15. If Not Now
16. Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
17. International Federation for Human Rights
18. Center for Constitutional Rights
19. European Center for Constitutional Human Rights
20. Jewish Voice for Peace

21. Jurist for the Respect of International Law
22. Nelson Mandela’s The Elders of global leaders
23. Oxfam International
24. Code Pink
25. Doctors Against Genocide

I hope you find this list and the links useful, and I hope you share it. Feel free to add to it in the comments.

And for those who can stand in the face of this many human rights organizations (and countless others) and still claim this isn’t a genocide, I’m afraid you’ve lost your ability to reason.