Over nine months since Hamas’s October 7 attacks slaughtered over a thousand Israelis, there is still no end in sight in Palestine. Israel’s war in the name of physically eliminating Hamas has reduced much of the Gaza Strip to rubble and killed tens of thousands of people, in their large majority civilians. Even if the war did end tomorrow, much of Gaza would be uninhabitable for years.

This new level of escalation — and the extent of the destruction in Gaza — have sparked debate about whether Israel’s actions should be classified as genocide. This was the accusation raised by South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice, later joined by Spain, Belgium, and Mexico. The question remains controversial among experts, but ever more of them agree that such an assessment is at least plausible. In Israel itself, most of the population is united behind its army. But there surely are critics of the war.

Amos Goldberg is an associate professor at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In April, an article by him was published in Local Call, in which he concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza are genocidal. In the following interview, he speaks about his views and conclusions regarding the ongoing war, the situation in the West Bank, and the future of Israel-Palestine.