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NEW YORK, US - FEB. 21: Since Oct. 7, Israel has launched a "genocidal campaign of extermination" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to a Jewish history professor in the US who spoke to Anadolu.Barry Trachtenberg, the Rubin presidential chair of Jewish history at Wake Forest University in the state of North Carolina, said following the attacks on Oct. 7 by the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, that Israel has employed extremely disproportionate violence against the civilian population in the Palestinian enclave, noting Israeli leaders held all Palestinians living in Gaza responsible for the attacks.“They have not only killed at least 29,000 Palestinians, wounded tens of thousands of more -- what they've also done is to act deliberately to destroy the conditions to support life.”“And in doing so, this clearly meets the threshold of genocide, because it is also combined with a broad range of statements by Israeli officials, saying that they're going to do exactly the steps, that they hold all Palestinians responsible, that there are no innocent Palestinians.”Trachtenberg emphasized that one of the main reasons behind Israel's genocidal attacks on Palestinians is its "Zionist ideology."He said Israelis believe the Palestinian territories they occupy as the property and eternal homeland of the Jewish people.“All other people who are present in that territory, who aren't Jewish, are seen as therefore enemies of that vision.“So, these moments of crisis are really just attempts to further cleanse the land of Palestinians. And unlike what we saw in 1948, with the Nakba, and what we saw in 1967, with the expansion of Israel, into these territories, what we're seeing now is they're embarking upon a genocidal campaign to destroy the Palestinian people in its entirety, especially those in Gaza at the moment,” he said (Footage by Islam Dogru /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)