'Israel’s approach to Iran, which is not an Arab country, is not the same as its approach to the Palestinians. Not only for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Right-wing politicians, but also for a fairly large part of Israeli society, the Palestinians in Gaza had become “subhuman” after 7 October 2023—and therefore worthy of violent extermination. History and theory tell us that such attitudes create conditions for mass exterminations and genocides.'

Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences at Brown University, writes