This report advances one clear legal thesis. Since October 2023, senior officials of the State of Israel publicly invoked the biblical term Amalek while directing military operations against Palestinians. Those utterances are direct and public incitement under Article III(c) of the Genocide Convention and probative of genocidal intent and persecution under the Rome Statute when considered with the ensuing conduct. The same term, Amalek (the Giants), is also part of our own indigenous memory in the southern corridor as ancestral Canaanite tribal confederation of which Palestinians, including the Tribe of Abimelech, are the living continuation. To label Palestinians Amalek is therefore to mark an indigenous people for elimination by name. The law does not recognize scripture as a defense. It examines what was said, by whom, to whom, and with what foreseeable effect, and it imposes duties to prevent, punish, and repair.
