Israel apologists consistently dismiss findings of genocide in the Gaza Strip on the grounds that this has yet to be determined by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and that only an ICJ verdict (which they will immediately dismiss with shrieks of "blood libel!") can settle the matter.
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Israel apologists consistently dismiss findings of genocide in the Gaza Strip on the grounds that this has yet to be determined by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and that only an ICJ verdict (which they will immediately dismiss with shrieks of "blood libel!") can settle the matter.
To further deflect from the crimes of the genocidal apartheid regime, they routinely determine that "a real genocide" is being perpetrated almost everywhere on earth except Gaza.
That no ICJ or similar verdicts exist in these other cases is for them suddenly irrelevant.
While I agree that an ICJ verdict is definitive, I also believe it is entirely reasonable to arrive at conclusions about genocide well before one is available.
When virtually every independent specialist and specialised organisation has determined that it sounds like a genocide, acts like a genocide, talks like a genocide, kills like a genocide, and brags like a genocide, that's good enough for me.
If sufficient evidence is forthcoming, I'm also perfectly prepared to believe that genocide is being committed against Nigerian Christians, with or without a legal ruling.
I know very little about Nigeria and its conflicts, but have tried learning more about it since Israel flunkies, and Christian Zionists along with frat boy Bill Maher in particular, consistently invoke it as a case of "real genocide" and contrast it with what they ridicule as "Pallywood" etc.
What I have found until now is very far from convincing. It appears to be a clear case of Israel groupies taking advantage of widespread ignorance about Nigeria, and using this ignorance to make wildly outlandish claims about, for example, half a million Christians killed in Nigeria in the last year alone.
I wasn't for example aware that a large majority of Boko Haram's victims are in fact Muslim, or that Nigeria was ruled by a Christian president and vice-president during the attempted secession of Christian-majority Biafra and the subsequent famine of the late 1960s.
Neither of these facts of course preclude a finding of genocide committed against Nigerian Christians, but demonstrate the importance of acquainting oneself with basic facts. As they say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, particularly when fused with sm ideological echo chamber and simplistic clichés.
For those interested, the article below by Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos, written for Afriquexxi.info and translated from the French, provides what I found to be an informative primer on the conflicts in Nigeria, and the problems with jumping to conclusions about genocide in Nigeria. Particularly one that portrays it as a genocide by "Muslims" against "Christians".
PS We often hear simplistic stories about how areas outside the Arabian Peninsula became Islamised. Since Christ wasn't from Lagos, any idea how parts of Nigeria or for that matter other areas of Africa and all of the Americas became Christian? Was it just Bible study?
On a related note I'm reminded of this timeless quote from Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president: "When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land"
afriquexxi.info/From-the-U-S-t
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