More than 500 experts sign demand that genocide ‘scholars’ group retract accusation against Israel

A letter demanding the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) rescind an accusation against Israel is finalized with 537 signatories.

The signees include experts in the field of law, antisemitism, history, the Holocaust and genocide, as well as former prosecutors and government officials.

The IAGS has a membership of around 500, although only 129 voted on the genocide resolution, most of those in favor.

The IAGS also has an open-door policy for members, with no qualifications needed to join, and did not release the names of those who voted to accuse Israel of genocide.

The list finalized today includes the name and affiliation of the signatories.

They include Eli Rosenbaum, a former US Department of Justice war crimes prosecutor; Jeffrey Mausner, a former Nazi war crimes prosecutor for the US; Bruce Einhorn, a former US federal judge; Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian minister of justice; and prominent lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

Other signatories include faculty at universities across the US, the Holocaust Museum of South Florida and the Vermont Holocaust Memorial.

The campaign was organized in large part by the Academic Engagement Network, a Jewish advocacy group for university faculty.

“Scholarship must be guided by rigorous standards of empirical accuracy and academic integrity, not distorted for ideological ends,” said the group’s director, Miriam Elman.