The 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholar (IAGS), the world's largest academic association of genocide scholars, has passed a resolution declaring Israel’s "policies and actions in Gaza" have met the legal definition set out in Article II of the 1948 UN convention on genocide.

Israel's Foreign Ministry called the statement disgraceful and "entirely based on Hamas' campaign of lies".

The resolution also said Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 constituted international crimes but emphasizedthat these acts do not justify genocide.

Since its founding in 1994, the IAGS has recognized genocides in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, and Myanmar.

 In June 1997, the IAGS reaffirmed that the mass murder of over a million Armenians in Turkey in 1915 is a case of genocide which conforms to the statutes of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. It further condemned the denial of the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish government and its official and unofficial agents and supporters.

In September 2024, the IAGS declared that the forced removal of Artsakh Armenians in September and October 2023 by Azerbaijan, through siege and bombing, as ethnic cleansing.

It also declared that the Azerbaijani blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh (December 2022 - September 2023, including the closure of the Lachin Corridor, was characteristic of actions considered imposing conditions of life designed to bring about the physical destruction of the ethnic Armenians in the territory and caused serious mental and bodily harm to the Armenians in the territory, which are recognized as genocidal crimes.