Controversy Erupts Around Genocide Scholars Org After Pro-Israel Activists Reveal It Only Cost $30 to Join

Alex Griffing Sep 4th, 2025, 6:19 pm

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Controversy erupted this week over the International Association of Genocide Scholars’ recent vote to declare that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide,” and include “crimes against humanity,” and “war crimes.”

The declaration was made after a vote of the IAGS’s membership on a resolution that included that specific wording and was quickly picked up by media outlets across the globe. The IAGS said at the time that 86 percent of its 500-person membership voted to back the three-page resolution.

The BBC covered the vote under the headline , “Israel committing genocide in Gaza, wo

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