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rather than use the actual legal definition found in the Geneva Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
Amnesty International found the legal definition articulated in detail in the Geneva Convention to be "overly cramped", so they cobbled together their own personal definition, relying on vague appeals to "international jurisprudence", conflations of the standards for charging individuals with the crime of genocide with standards for charging a state with the crime, and cribbed, decontextualized sentences from a dissent in the ICJ case Croatia v Serbia.
Amnesty International rejects the explicit terms of the Geneva Convention itself and the recent rulings of the ICJ because neither supports AI's claims.
The ICJ has held that “in order to infer the existence of dolus specialis from a pattern of conduct, it is necessary and sufficient that this is the only inference that could reasonably be drawn from the acts in question”, meaning that “intent to destroy the group, in whole or in part, must be the only reasonable inference which can be drawn from the pattern of conduct.
I guess Amnesty International correctly surmised that folks like Chris Hayes would never bother to actually read the report and would merely breathlessly parrot the explosive and inaccurate headline.
Corrected headline:
'This is genocide': Amnesty International accuses Israel of Gaza genocide*
*as long as we're allowed to make up our own personal definition, rather use the definition articulated in the Geneva Convention and affirmed by the ICJ
*as long as we're allowed to make up our own personal definition, rather use the definition articulated in the Geneva Convention and affirmed by the ICJ
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/8668/2024/en/
https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition
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