Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's top scholars on the crime say

[Celerity]

26. No. Here is the response from the IAGS to Brown's failed attempt to delegitimise the resolution:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/genocide-scholar-says-group-pushed-through-israel-condemnation-without-debate/amp/

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Emily Sample, the association’s communications officer, rejected Brown’s account of the process. Town hall discussions are not required by the association’s bylaws and have not happened for all resolutions, Sample said, adding that open discussions on the association’s list serve were too unwieldy to moderate and there were few requests from members for an open discussion about the resolution against Israel over its war with Hamas in Gaza.

“We felt, and the authors of the resolution felt that there was sufficient contextual information for all of the scholars in the community to make their own informed decision before the vote,” she said. “The space for discussion is through articles and other publications.” Sample said the proportion of voting members — below 30% — was “pretty standard” and “represents a much larger percentage of the organization that did support this.”

The vote adhered to the association’s bylaws, which require a 20% quorum for a resolution, and, among that voting group, two-thirds support to pass, she said. The resolution passed with 86% support. She confirmed that the association was open to non-scholars such as policymakers and civil society members who are interested in genocide, but said that, “We are not accepting large swaths of activists who are anti-Israel.”