As the war in Ukraine approaches two years and the Israel-Hamas war continues to receive international attention, the term genocide has reached millions of people on Instagram alone. Notably, as of ...

Genocide happens very rarely. Or all the time. What seems like genocide to you may not be even close by my standards. “Genocide” has become an endlessly elastic code word for everything bad that ...

Words matter. Their meanings matter. If words have no meaning, then the ideas we construct from those words have no meaning, either. This is why Webster’s Dictionary records the definitions and uses ...

An intense argument is raging over whether what has been happening in Gaza since October 2023 is an act of genocide. It is the subject of a case being heard in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ...

In 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), a group of 35 mostly European countries, drafted what it called a working definition of antisemitism. The Alliance had been founded in ...

In the weeks since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the Israeli bombardment and ground assault on Gaza, both sides have traded accusations of genocide. Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and took ...

What is happening in Gaza right now is a horrible tragedy. Depending on your political views, you may see it as an awful but necessary military operation, or a brutal and pointless assault on a ...

The definition hardly refers to inequality or structural discrimination—rather, it’s a thinly veiled tool for prohibiting criticism of any sort about Israel. A Palestinian schoolgirl walks past the ...