Israel has a problem that it is unwilling to face up to: its leaders are undoubtedly committing genocide. This isn't the view of non-Jews, but many prominent Jews.
The latest to join the growing list is Holocaust scholar Amos Goldberg from Hebrew University. Writing an opinion piece on Medium, a United States-based social publishing platform, he says: "Yes, it is genocide."
One can't be more certain than that. His evidence? The level and pace of indiscriminate killing, destruction, mass expulsions, displacement, famine, executions, wiping out of cultural and religious institutions, killing of journalists, sweeping dehumanisation of the Palestinians and the conscious crushing of Palestinian existence paint a picture of genocide, he argues.
The Israelis want the world to think that for genocide to be genocide, it must look like the Holocaust. There must be gas chambers, killing pits and extermination camps. There needn't be.
In a case brought by South Africa against Israel, the International Court of Justice thought so when, on Jan 26, it ruled that Tel Aviv may be committing genocide. Again, on March 28, when forced starvation became clear, the ICJ issued additional orders against Israel calling on it not to deny the rights of Palestinians granted by the Genocide Convention.
Jurists, lawyers, academics and international institutions are making their point clear: genocide is going on in the seven months' bombardment of Gaza.
One important voice was that of United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine Territories Francesca Albanese, who had no doubt that Israel was committing genocide.
In a report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, she put it thus: by analysing the patterns of violence and Israel's policies in its onslaught in Gaza there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold of genocide is met.
Well-known economist Jeffrey Sachs, a Jew himself, is equally certain: Israeli genocide must be taken for granted.
Governments, especially those that supply weapons to Israel, have been advised by their lawyers and others that Israel is indeed committing genocide and by continuing to supply weapons to Tel Aviv, they are complicit in the genocide.
Britain was one. More than 600 lawyers led by three former Supreme Court judges, including its former president Lady Brenda Hale, wrote a 17-page letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak advising the government that it had an obligation to act to prevent Israel's genocide of Palestinians.
Interestingly, the letter calls for sanctions to be imposed on individuals and entities who have issued statements inciting genocide. We know none will be imposed. On the contrary, more weapons will head to Israel to continue with the Zionist regime's genocide agenda.
This is because whether or not weapons get there is a decision for a select few. To them, Israel must be given the benefit of the doubt, according to The Guardian. Also, despite all the noise in Parliament against continuing arms exports to Tel Aviv, the august house is toothless without its select committee, the report highlights. We will hear more of this when the Global Legal Action's case against the government for judicial review becomes public.
Be that as it may, one thing is clear. Those who supply Israel with weapons know they can stop the genocide in Gaza. Not wanting to do so is to be on the wrong side of history.