One target at a time: The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide

Israeli soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

Oct. 20, 2025 - A few months after October 7, I [Yuval Abraham, journalist and filmmaker] enrolled in an introductory course on genocide at the Open University of Israel. The lecturer began the first class by telling us — about 20 Jewish-Israeli students gathered on Zoom — that by the end of the semester we would understand exactly what genocide entails and be able to explain why Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza.

In a nutshell, his argument was this: At most, Israel might be destroying Gaza, but its actions are driven by military objectives rather than an “intent to destroy” a specific group “as such,” as the Genocide Convention outlines. Without this intent, he concluded, the term genocide does not apply.

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