The Genocide Lie Is Back

A new resolution condemning Israel is about as marred as the process that produced it.

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An Israeli soldier holds an Israeli flag on a tank in southern Israel, January 1, 2024. Inset: Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard speaks during an interview with Reuters, November 30, 2022.

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Israel’s more pathological critics cannot resist the temptation to lie about matters large and small. Take, for example, Agnes Callamard — a French “human rights activist” and the secretary general of Amnesty International.

In a preemptive effort to attack the character of skeptics, Callamard dismissed the “toxic propaganda” that she predicted would cast into doubt an International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution accusing the Israeli government of genocide. “An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association have backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime,” she wrote. That is prima facie false.

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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