It has become fashionable among anti-Israel zealots — including hard-left academics — to use the term “genocide” to characterize Israel’s response to the murder, rape, beheadings and kidnapping of more than 1,400 innocent Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023.
Self-proclaimed “genocide scholar” Omer Barton wrote in The New York Times this week that he knows genocide when he sees it, and he sees it in Gaza. (Not in Israel on Oct. 7, though).
The king of Jordan accused Israel of genocide on Monday, following the lead of the UN rapporteur on Palestine.
The label will no doubt be a central part of campus rallies this fall.
But this accusation is false as a matter of fact, morality, logic and law — and a dangerous distortion of history that amounts to Holocaust denial.
It trivializes the powerful term “genocide” and applies it to nearly every war fought by democracies during the last