Mick Hartley

From the Times of Israel – Pioneering genocide researcher Father Desbois denounces mass murder charges against Israel:

After a recent tour of Gaza border communities devastated by the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught, pioneering Holocaust researcher Father Patrick Desbois said the Jewish state should bring the terrorists to trial.

“We have to show the crimes, but we [also] have to name the criminals,” said Desbois. “Without criminals, you have no crimes,” Desbois told The Times of Israel after returning home to France.

An internationally acclaimed expert on identifying modern-day genocide, the French-Catholic priest was in Israel to commemorate the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 Israelis were murdered and 251 people taken into captivity.

He is known for his innovative methods in bringing truth to light and seeking justice for victims of mass murder — from the Holocaust to Yazidis murdered by the Islamic State.

In 2008, Desbois published, “The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews.” Since then, historians have adopted the term “Holocaust by Bullets” to refer to hundreds of open-air massacres perpetrated by the Nazis in eastern Europe before the construction of extermination camps in 1942.

Given his expertise in mass murder, Desbois said he is outraged by allegations that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza.

“I think the accusation of genocide is [anti-Israel] propaganda. Why does nobody ask if Bashar Assad in Damascus has committed genocide against his own people,” said Desbois.

Or, currently, the slaughter of black Africans by largely Arab groups in Sudan.

One of his most disturbing visits in Israel, said Desbois, took place at Kibbutz Be’eri, where 132 Israelis were murdered. The priest walked through several homes that were burned to the ground by Hamas terrorists.

Spray-painted onto a wall in Arabic, Desbois saw the words, “Death to the Zionists under the name of Abu Ali,” he said.

“He signed it,” said Desbois, referring to the terrorist. “These people will be well-known in their families for generations for killing Jews,” he said.

In part through deploying social media on October 7, Hamas “advertised a lot of what they did, and they showed it was easy to do it,” said Desbois.

“There were large celebrations in Istanbul and Baghdad,” said Desbois. “Ideology is destroying the brains of people who do it. They think it’s a holy duty to kill Jews".