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We Charge Nakba: Colonial Genocide of the Palestinian People - Noura Erakat

Gaza Tribunal Final Session - Day 1: The Crimes, Noura Erakat Noura Erakat, legal scholar and professor at Rutgers University, addresses how the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is quintessentially colonial and constitutes the cruelest phase of the Nakba. Israel's precedent for Nakba peace took place between 1947-1949 when Zionist militias conducted operations collectively targeting Palestinians. Plan Dalet included destroying villages and expelling populations, resulting in expulsion of 80 percent of Palestine's native people and destruction of 500 villages. The brazenness of Israel's current campaign is predicated on normalization of the Nakba, with the international community accepting Israel's claim for legal exception in 1948. The Nakba was committed in shadows of drafting the Genocide Convention, and Israel, viewed as genocide's canonical victims, could not be conceived as its first accused genocidaire. Today Israel continues that tradition, insisting its campaign is justifiably pursued for ethnic cleansing and though it may seem genocidal, is necessary for security. Unfortunately, the Genocide Convention does not adequately address colonial violence. The final treaty excluded destruction of a group's political, economic, cultural, and linguistic existence, effectively excising colonialism from the scope of genocide. The convention failed to connect biological life to land, obscuring how forced removal can be tantamount to destruction. The normalization of Nakba together with the Genocide Convention's colonial blind spots makes it questionable whether the ICJ can vindicate Palestinians. In past two years, the US systematically attacked the post-World War II legal order to allow Israel's carnage, using veto six times and imposing sanctions on anyone aiding ICC. Gaza is a rehearsal for a future where capital sovereignty supplants national sovereignty and political democracy is attenuated to allow markets to grow unencumbered.