Francesca Albanese

and through acts of killing, the creation of conditions of life calculated to destroy the group as such or members of the group as such, the infliction of severe mentally or bodily harm,

the prevention of birth and the transfer of children.

In Canada, there has been a genocide of the Native Americans.

Canada has recognized it, even if there has not been a pronouncement of the International Court of Justice.

In Australia, the same thing.

say the same thing of the United States, and there is no acknowledgement of what has happened to the hundreds of Native American tribes in the United States.

But the fact is that this is what constitutes genocide from a legal point of view.

Now, the thing is that there are some precursors of genocide, and Raphael Lemkin,

the Jewish legal scholar who coined the term genocide had in mind settler colonialism when he envisaged the crime, because he knew exactly what the genocide of the Jews had been produced from, that idea that there is one group

that can dominate and erase the other.

So in the context of Gaza, I've been alarmed by the language.

The language has been genocidal, like they are all human animals, we will cut,

water, electricity, food and medicine, and they've done it.

They've done it.

Netanyahu and others have been on record saying, evoking this biblical image of the Amalek.

Go and destroy the Amalek, the mother, the suckling, the baby, the camel and the donkey.

What is it?

I mean, evoking biblical language

using a moment of trauma, deep trauma in the Israeli society, and in young men and women who clearly were already harboring a level of dehumanization against the Palestinians.

Fine, it has always been like that.