Josh Stokes: A good thread on why genocide isn't the right term. There are plenty of better ways to describe what is happening there.

A good thread on why genocide isn't the right term. There are plenty of better ways to describe what is happening there.

To change my mind that this is a genocide, it would have to be, you know, a genocide. For a start, I would look to see an ethnic group targeted not because of where they are, but WHO they are - starting in Israel. (Genocides don't usually spare 2 million people right in your own house.) /1

Tom is a proud Neo-Con who still defends the war against Iraq and says the protests against apartheid South Africa were wrong. More important I have not seen him engage with the substance of detailed reports that reach the conclusion of genocide. His objection is 100% ideological

You should send them to him and ask him to respond.

I asked him a few days ago, no response. He ignores or trolls in response to anything substantial

Well, send over what you got to me. I would be interested in taking a look.

3rd link in paragraph one is full report. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gazanews.un.org There are "reasonable grounds" to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territ...

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