A case for prosecuting the Israeli prime minister for the crime of persecution. Even though the crime of cultural genocide was excluded from the Genocide Convention, there is a method by which both Netanyahu and Gallant could still be convicted for the cultural aspect of the genocide of the Palestinians. Da The Nation
Every genocide always contains two crimes at once. First and foremost, is the biological crime: the extermination, in whole or in part, of a group of people qua group. Not simply mass murder, but mass murder targeted against a collectivity with the intention of extinguishing a peoples’ ability to constitute a collectivity in the first place. This is what we have come to know as genocide in the legal and colloquial sense.
But alongside each murder, each forced dispossession, a second crime is committed: a cultural one. Libraries are burned, archives destroyed; villages, with their regional and local specificities, their own food and folkways, are razed; historians, musicians, poets, painters are murdered, their memories and their potential murdered with them.
