Gerald Posner analyzes whether Hamas actions on October 7 meets the legal standard for genocide

The Genocide Case Against Hamas

Was a single day's attack, no matter how savage, too brief to qualify as genocide? It turns out that duration has never been the legal test.

Gerald Posner analyzes whether Hamas actions on October 7 meets the legal standard for genocide

Gerald Posner's new analysis, titled "The Genocide Case Against Hamas," investigates whether Hamas's October 7 massacre meets the legal standard for genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention.

The Oct. 7 Question The Human Rights Crowd Never Asked

Three years after Hamas terrorists stormed southern Israel and slaughtered roughly 1,200 people, one veteran investigator says the world’s human-rights establishment has dodged an obvious question: was Oct. 7 itself a genocide? Gerald Posner, the lawyer-turned-bestselling author of many books, including “Case Closed,” which examines the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and made the book a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history, say…