Rwandan genocide

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an 'emergency' Likud rally in Tel Aviv, November 17, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

By labeling Arabs an ‘existential threat,’ Bibi invokes a terrifying history of ethnic violence

Netanyahu organized an emergency Likud gathering Sunday night, in which he accused Israel's Palestinian citizens of supporting terror. We know how this kind of thing can end.

By Dahlia Scheindlin November 18, 2019

Rwandan children at a refugee camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, during the Rwandan Genocide. (UNAMIR)

How Israel helped prop up Rwanda’s Hutu regime before the genocide

Israel refuses to come clean about its links with the murderous Hutu regime that carried out the genocide in Rwanda 25 years ago. But Foreign Ministry documents show that Israel was aware of the massacres against the Tutsi minority way back in the 1960s — and turned a blind eye. By Eitay Mack On April 6, 1994, hours after…

By +972 Magazine April 29, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspects an honor guard in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 5, 2016 (Kobi Gideon / GPO).

U.S. Embassy celebrations: A who’s who of the Israeli arms trade

Only around 30 countries took part in the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s gala celebrating the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem last week. Not coincidentally, Israel’s ties with most of them are based on arms sales used to carry out gross human rights violations. By Eitay Mack [Correction added below.] Immediately following the end of the 1967 War, the State of…

By +972 Magazine May 22, 2018

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President of Rwanda Paul Kagame, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 10, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israel is helping Rwanda rewrite the history of genocide

Israel, which has supplied numerous despotic regimes with advanced weaponry, is now helping the Rwandan government rewrite the narrative of the 1994 genocide. So much for the lessons of the Holocaust. By Eitay Mack Israel was the only Western state to endorse the Rwandan dictatorship’s scandalous proposal in January to change the factual and legal…

By +972 Magazine February 20, 2018

A mass grave in Bosnia. (ICTY)

Supreme Court rules against exposing Israel’s role in Bosnian genocide

Citing potential damage to Israel’s foreign relations, the Supreme Court rejects a petition calling to reveal details of the government’s arms exports to the Serbian army during the Bosnian genocide. By John Brown* (Translated by Tal Haran) Israel’s Supreme Court last month rejected a petition to reveal details of Israeli defense exports to the former…

By +972 Magazine December 5, 2016