Anyone following Western academia over the past two years would come to a single conclusion: there is a consensus that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Just look at the countless open letters—signed by hundreds or thousands of academics—constantly circulating, and the sheer lack of responses from the universities.
According to Dutch academic Marten Boudry, the consensus is a product of a few things: peer pressure, groupthink, and smoke and mirrors.
Let’s look at a prominent example: the International Association of Genocide Scholars officially accusing Israel of the “crime of crimes” in 2025. Now, I’m not an academic, but I don’t need a doctorate to tell me that a territory whose population increased during the conflict is not one suffering the “crime of crimes.”