Her comments came amid a meeting in New York of the United Nations General Assembly, where several countries, including France, Britain, Canada and Australia, have formally recognized Palestine as a state. Her comments on Gaza come amid growing global consensus that Israel is committing genocide. The world’s leading association of genocide scholars has declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. of Genocide Scholars recently passed a resolution that says Israel’s conduct meets the legal definition as spelled out in the United Nations convention on genocide. An Israeli flag waves over debris in an area of the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel last month.