"It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others," said Israel's Foreign Ministry.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced a resolution passed on Aug. 31 by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) accusing Israel of “widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide” as “an embarrassment to the legal profession and to any academic standard.”
“It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein. “The IAGS did not do the most basic task in research, which is to verify the information.”
The resolution was backed by 86% of IAGS members according to Reuters, though according to IAGS member Sara Brown only 129 of 500, or 25%, of members did so. It included a litany of accusations against Israel, from burying thousands under rubble to attacking doctors, journalists and aid workers to depriving the population of food, medicine and water.