UN's Special Adviser on Genocide says Israel's Exercise of Self-Defense Could Lead to Genocide

According to UN Secretary General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, the exercise of self-defense by Jews - the victims of the worst genocide in history - against an openly antisemitic violent enemy is potentially genocidal. In his statement to the UN "Human Rights" Council on March 3, 2016, Dieng included the democratic State of Israel's struggle to defend itself from Palestinian terror as a conflict that could lead to genocide.

In his words: "This is a privileged body ... that should be at the forefront in alerting to the risk of atrocity crimes, and in calling for early and effective action to stop the escalation of tensions that could potentially lead to genocidal violence.. I would like to focus my intervention on an issue which is extremely worrying from the perspective of the prevention of genocide and related crimes, which is the increasing and alarming disregard for international human rights and humanitarian law in many situations of conflict around the world... Protracted conflicts or cycles or deadly violence, such as those between Israel and Palestine, have not been resolved."