Yazidi genocide
The ISIS[a] committed a genocide against the Yazidis[b][3] in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017.[3] The ISIS killed as many as 5,000 men,[4][5] and sold as many as 10,000 Yazidi women as slaves.[6] Some boys were also enslaved by the ISIS.[7]
Overview
[change | change source]In November 2015, the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) issued the first legal analysis to conclude that the ISIS was committing a genocide against the Yazidis.[8][9]
The USHMM recorded extensive accounts of mass rape, torture, displacement, kidnapping and forced conversions targeting the Yazidis.[8][9] The number of Yazidis displaced by ISIS's genocidal campaign[10] totalled over 800,000.[8] Despite ISIS's campaign constituting a genocide, it has not received much attention from left-wing scholars in the West,[11] who have substantial influence in academia and history writing.[12][13]
Reactions
[change | change source]
Iraq
[change | change source]Kurdistan Regional Government
[change | change source]On August 3, 2024, the Kurdistan Regional Government commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide.[14] The Kurdistan Regional Government said that it supported the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da'esh/ISIL (UNITAD) to bring the perpetrators to justice.[14]
Free Yezidi Foundation
[change | change source]Pari Ibrahim of the Iraqi Kurdistan-based[15] Free Yezidi Foundation said to the Voice of America (VOA):[16]
[k]ey for the prevention of future genocide against our community to make sure that those who funded the Islamic State structure are held accountable.
Germany
[change | change source]The German parliament voted in January 2023 to recognize the Yazidi genocide,[17] followed by a speech from the Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock confirming the German government's recognition of the Yazidi genocide.[18]
United States
[change | change source]The United States Department of State recognized the Yazidi genocide twice in 2016 and 2017 respectively.[19] On March 14, 2016, the United States House of Representatives voted unanimously by 393-0 that ISIS's war crimes against the Yazidis, Syriac Christians, Shias and other groups constituted acts of genocide.[20]
United Kingdom
[change | change source]The UK Government acknowledged the Yazidi genocide in August 2023.[21]
United Nations
[change | change source]The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) stated in March 2015 that ISIS's war crimes against the Yazidis constituted a genocide.[22]
Related pages
[change | change source]- Katyn massacre
- Bosnian genocide
- Volhynia massacre
- 7 October 2023 attack on Israel
- Yugoslav massacres of Kosovo Albanians during the Kosovo War
Footnotes
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization)". RAND. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
- ↑
- Shields, Sarah (2001). "NELIDA FUCCARO, The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq, Library of Modern Middle East Studies, vol. 14 (London: I. B. Tauris, 1999). Pp. 246. $55 cloth". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33 (3): 463–465. doi:10.1017/S0020743801293064. ISSN 1471-6380.
- Cheterian, Vicken (October 30, 2019). "ISIS genocide against the Yazidis and mass violence in the Middle East". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 48 (4): 629–641. doi:10.1080/13530194.2019.1683718. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
- "Who Are the Yazidis? - Home". Polska Akcja Humanitarna. August 30, 2022. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
- Labott, Elise; Kopan, Tal (March 17, 2016). "John Kerry: ISIS responsible for genocide". CNN.
- "Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women". The Wiener Holocaust History. February 21, 2024. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
- "Ten Years on from the Yazidi Genocide". International Center for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT). July 31, 2024. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
- "Racing the Clock to Document ISIS Genocide of Iraq's Yazidis". The New York Times. September 5, 2024. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
- "The Duchess of Edinburgh attends "The Women Who Beat ISIS" travelling photo exhibition". The Royal Family. November 27, 2024. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
- ↑ Cetorelli, Valeria; Sasson, Isaac; Shabila, Nazar; Burnham, Gilbert (May 9, 2017). "Mortality and kidnapping estimates for the Yazidi population in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014: A retrospective household survey". PLoS Medicine. pp. e1002297. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002297.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ↑ "Ten years after she was captured by Isis, 21-year-old Yazidi woman is finally freed". The Independent. October 4, 2024. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
- ↑
- "Yazidi women fear return to a broken land of rubble and brutality". BBC News. June 30, 2024. Retrieved October 6, 2024.
- "Ten years after she was captured by Isis, 21-year-old Yazidi woman is finally freed". The Independent. October 4, 2024. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
- "Isil's Yazidi 'mass conversion' video fails to hide brutal duress". The Telegraph. August 21, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
- ↑ "Yezidi genocide and the struggle for recovery". Atlantic Council. July 29, 2024. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
- Maronian, Bared; Abramian, Jackie (November 20, 2024). "Ten Years On, It Is Essential to Recognize the Yazidi Genocide Is Not Fully Over". Retrieved May 5, 2025.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Marking the Six-Year Anniversary of the Yezidi Genocide". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). August 3, 2020.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Holocaust Museum urges action to stop IS genocide of Yazidi". Times of Israel. November 12, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Swedish woman convicted of genocide for IS crimes against Yazidis". BBC News. February 11, 2025. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
In early August 2014 IS invaded Yazidi settlements in the Sinjar region launching a genocidal campaign against them.
- ↑ "Islamism and the Left". Dissent Magazine. 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
- ↑
- Lappin, Shalom (2006), ‘How Class Disappeared from Western Politics’, Dissent, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 73-78.
- Nirenberg, David (2013). Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- Tabarovsky, Izabella (2022). "Demonization Blueprints: Soviet Conspiracist Antizionism in Contemporary Left-Wing Discourse". Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism (JCA). Academic Studies Press. doi:10.26613/jca/5.1.97. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- Troy, Gil (February 1, 2024). "How Palestine Hijacked the U.S. Civil Rights Movement". Tablet. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- Kirsch, Adam (2024), On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice, W.W. Norton and Company, New York and London.
- ↑
- Pollack, Eunice G. (2013). Racializing Antisemitism: Black Militants, Jews, and Israel 1950-present (PDF). Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Israel. p. 4.
- "Malcolm X founded Harvard University's antisemitism". Jewish News Syndicate (JNS). February 22, 2024.
- Pierre, Dion J. (June 17, 2019). "How Anti-Semitism Became a Staple of 'Woke' Activism on Campus". National Association of Scholars (NAS). Retrieved October 27, 2024.
- Lappin, Shalom (2025). "The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left". Fathom Journal. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "The Kurdistan Regional Government's Ongoing Commitment: 10th Anniversary of Yazidi Genocide and Pursuit of Justice". Kurdistan Regional Government. August 3, 2024. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
- ↑ "About Us". Free Yezidi Foundation. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
- ↑ "Yazidis seek justice on 10th anniversary of Islamic State genocide". Voice of America (VOA). August 4, 2024. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
- ↑ "German parliament condemns IS crimes against Yazidi as genocide". Euractiv. January 20, 2023. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
- ↑ "Speech by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on the occasion of the recognition and commemoration of the genocide of the Yazidis". Auswärtiges Amt. January 19, 2023. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
I am thus so grateful that we here in the Bundestag are accepting this obligation today across party lines by calling this crime by its name: the genocide of the Yazidis [...] This decision today is not just a decision taken by politicians but one taken by our whole country. Germany as a society recognises the genocide suffered by the Yazidis. For that, I say thank you.
- ↑ Buchwald, Todd F. (2019). "By Any Other Name. How, When, and Why the US Government Has Made Genocide Determinations" (PDF). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 12, 2024. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
- ↑ Labott, Elise (March 17, 2016). "U.S. to declare genocide in Iraq and Syria". CNN. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ↑ "UK acknowledges Yazidi genocide by Daesh/Islamic State". The House of Commons Library. August 9, 2023. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
- ↑ "UN: ISIS May Have Committed Genocide Against Yazidis". Huffington Post. March 19, 2015. Archived from the original on August 16, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2015.
