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To what extent is the accusation that Israel has been perpetrating a genocide in Gaza bedding in and becoming a more mainstream part of the narrative? Perhaps more intriguingly, to what extent is this question being debated in Israel itself?
As ever, it was the Palestinians themselves who were among the first to sound the genocide “alarm bell.” But they are not in charge of the narrative, and lack the permission to narrate their own suffering.
As the lawyer for South Africa, Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, said at the International Court of Justice in the Hague in 2024, this is “the first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something.”
Israeli officials do not face this test when portraying their own suffering. They do not have to wait for others to attest to it.
