Jonah Goldberg: This is what’s wrong with the rush to accuse Israel of committing genocide in Gaza
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Mar 05, 2024
3 minutes
If I were a Palestinian struggling amid the rubble in Gaza, I would probably think Israel is committing genocide. If I were a German hiding in Dresden or a Japanese civilian outside Hiroshima in 1945, I’d probably feel the same way about the United States. But none of these amount to genocide.
Genocide has a specific , “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.” The term was coined by , a Polish Jew, in
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