Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced a resolution passed a day earlier by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) accusing Israel of “widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide” as “an embarrassment to the legal profession and to any academic standard.”

The resolution, which was backed by 86% of IAGS members according to Reuters , (later criticism by an IAGS member said only 25%, or 129 of 500 members, did so), included a litany of accusations against Israel, from burying thousands under rubble to attacking doctors, journalists and aid workers to depriving the population of food, medicine and water.

“It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein.

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