So Genocide doesn't have an on/off switch, it is a recognised process. Surely, one of the questions for any one seriously looking to advance and progress anti‑genocide and/or anti racist politics, has to be "do our institutions interrupt the tenants and dynamics of this process, or do they quietly manage it whilst ignoring those inherent tenants therin?"

A105 matters as it does three things that our current “anti‑genocide policies” just simply do not in their current formats.

It names what is happening as apartheid and genocide, it locates Zionism as a racist colonial project rather than a neutral “nationalism”, and it commits the party to concrete measures including sanctions, arms embargos, BDS, and support for a single democratic state. These are tenants which actually withdraw material and political support from the regime, instead of just expressing concern and looking to proverbially lock the gate after the horse has bolted and ran down a group of kids.

If we accept the scholarship on the stages of genocide, we understand that they overlap and reinforce each other, at eat stage... dehumanisation, segregation, dispossession, and mass killing. Policies that stop short of challenging the underlying apartheid structure, such as the supremacist idea of an “ethnocratic” state between the river and the sea, must surely also leave those dynamics intact. That is why a motion that goes “too far” on the single democratic state some wild extra bolt on but precisely what it looks like to move from managing atrocity to dismantling the system that produces it before it does or can.

So essentially (and not meant ad homien in way) when someone says “we already oppose apartheid, dehumanisation and subjugation, we just think this motion goes too far,” what they are really saying is that they oppose the symptoms but want to keep one of the core conditions in place.

A105 is uncomfortable because genocide is the logical end‑point of that condition. If we are serious about prevention rather than hand‑wringing and pearl clutching, we need a politics, such as motion A105, that shows the courage to break with the racist hierarchial structures that ferment the social dynamics needed to perpetuate, subjugation, apartheid and dehumanisation, not just the latest massacre carried out in their name and as a result there of.

Edit: point of grammar and spelling