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Aug 26, 2026, 10:33 PM

‘Genocide! Genocide!’: Israel in the Accusing Age

How an accusation against Israel reaches the Jew In the language surrounding Israel and Gaza, evil no longer requires a rare event, for its signs proliferate faster than the crimes they claim to name. The gravest words circulate in advance,...

Karen Lieberman

Aug 25, 2026, 6:30 AM

GENOCIDE: The Historic Inversion of Our Time OR…The Never-Ending Lie

In mid-2023, the population of the Gaza Strip was approximately two million. It is currently two million. The IDF – supposedly committing genocide – is not very proficient – unlike the Nazis, who butchered the Jewish people during WWII....

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Aug 23, 2026, 11:34 AM

When a Jew Kills

Rafael Lemkin gave the 20th century a word it desperately needed: genocide. Jewish memory learned to ask with extraordinary precision what happens when a Jew becomes available to violence because he is a Jew. The harder question begins when...

Alaric DeArment

Aug 23, 2026, 10:40 AM

Guenter Lewy’s Damaging Legacy Cannot Be Ignored

The scholar Guenter Lewy died on March 24, at the age of 102. But despite the adage that one should not speak ill of the dead, the damage he did to the historiography of the Romani genocide cannot be...

Aug 18, 2026, 12:30 AM

What’s in a Name

My sister and I were the unfortunate bearers of names with Cultural Significance, but not in the way you might think. I was born just a few years before the movie Star Wars appeared on the scene, and my...

Aug 14, 2026, 12:14 AM

Let’s talk about genocide(s)!

Storm over the Hague (own work, AI assisted)

We’ve all – at some point in our lives – heard the saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” But have we stopped to think why that should be so? Why would good intentions produce bad...

David Seidenberg

Aug 9, 2026, 10:42 PM

The charge of genocide in Gaza

An open letter to my friends who believe Israel is not committing and has not committed genocide against Gaza: 1a) You are certainly right that the charge of genocide is being used to generate hatred against all of Israel and...

Michael Berenhaus

Aug 9, 2026, 5:52 PM

Baltimore Sun – “Genocide” has a meaning

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In the letter to the editor “Mamdani is correct about Netanyahu” (8/1/26), Ray Gordon claims Israel is committing genocide against the Gazans. Never in the history of genocide has the side that has been allegedly “genocided” been able to...

Aug 9, 2026, 12:41 PM

Lemkin family fights to stop Pa. charity from using name in anti-genocide campaign

Bilingual memorial in a Yerevan park commemorates both the Ottoman genocide of Armenians during World War I and the Nazi extermination of Jews during the Holocaust. (Photo by Larry Luxner)

Raphael Lemkin, a long-dead Polish Jew who never set foot in Armenia, is nonetheless regarded there as a champion of justice who exposed the Ottoman-era genocide of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians during World War I. In fact, it was...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Aug 8, 2026, 1:01 AM

The genocide argument before the genocide argument

TL;DR: The Gaza genocide debate often begins after the crucial question has already been skipped. Death, deprivation and destruction can be evidence of genocide, but only if they also establish the specific intent to destroy a protected group. A...

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