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Husam Zomlot Promotes Genocide Libel on Amanpour . By Karen Bekker, January 28, 2025. CAMERA. The article by Karen Bekker, published by CAMERA on January 28, 2025, criticizes Palestinian Authority representative Husam Zomlot’s January 22, 2025, interview with Christiane Amanpour on CNN. The main points are: Zomlot repeatedly and falsely described Israel’s war in Gaza as a supposed “genocide.” He relied on disputed casualty figures while omitting Hamas’s role in the war. He portrayed Israel as the fundamental cause of the conflict, claiming that Hamas was a “product” rather than a cause of the conflict and characterizing Israel’s military campaign as ideological rather than motivated by security concerns. In fact, the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack triggered the war. Amanpour is accused of failing to challenge these claims. The interview largely allowed Zomlot to present his narrative without addressing counterarguments, including Palestinian political decisions and Hamas’s responsibilit...

Only weeks after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, false accusations of so called "genocide" was already pushed by Arab  anti-Israel groups. The speed with which the term entered public discourse is significant. By November 7, only one month after the Hamas massacre and the beginning of Israel's military campaign, three Palestinian so-called "human-rights" organizations—Al Mezan, Al-Haq, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)—were already describing the situation as an imminent genocide. Their joint statement called for an immediate end to what they described as Israel's supposed "genocidal warfare" and asserted that Palestinians in Gaza were facing "imminent genocide." The November 7 statement was not a neutral description of an established judicial finding. It was an advocacy document produced by organizations that had already adopted a particular legal and political interpretation of the war. The statement combi...