HEADLINE: Genocide Allegations Against Israel Debunked by Expert Analysis GUEST AND TITLE: Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Diane Taube Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University SUMMARY: Peter Berkowitz debunks genocide allegations against Israel
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
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GUEST AND TITLE: Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Diane Taube Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University
SUMMARY: Peter Berkowitz debunks genocide allegations against Israel, emphasizing the UN definition requires intent to destroy a group. He questions the credibility of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Berkowitz highlights the absurdity, noting the Palestinian population tripled since the 1980s despite such claims. He attributes propaganda success to Hamas's use of human shields, shifting responsibility for civilian casualties. A comprehensive report systematically refutes claims of deliberate starvation, civilian targeting, and infrastructure bombing, demonstrating Israel's precautions.
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| 0:24.0 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Batchel. I welcome my colleague Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and |
| 0:29.6 | Diane Tobb, senior fellow Hoover institutions at Stanford University, writing for his column |
| 0:35.7 | in real clear politics about genocide, in particular |
| 0:39.1 | the allegation voiced by so many that it is not useful to list them, that Israel has committed |
| 0:47.6 | genocide in the Gaza Strip, these many months of war, existential war. |
| 0:53.4 | Peter, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:55.0 | Genocide has a definition by the United Nations. |
| 0:58.8 | Please explain. |
| 0:59.8 | Good evening to you, Peter. |
| 1:01.4 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:02.4 | Yes, that's why we should begin with a conversation about genocide. |
| 1:06.6 | So in 1948, in the wake of the Holocaust, which the Nazis sought to destroy all Jews on the planet and succeed in destroying a third of the Jewish population, a definition of law was adopted. |
| 1:24.0 | Sorry, a definition of genocide was adopted as a matter of international law. |
| 1:29.1 | It's called the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. |
| 1:34.9 | And the main idea is this, that genocide, the most heinous of crimes, consists in acts committed with an intent to destroy a racial, ethnic, religious group in whole or in part and as such. |
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