Does the legal definition of genocide, a definition that so many of us knowingly use to argue what is and what is not genocide, a definition that precludes the possibility of calling the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, or what's happening in Palestine now, genocide?
Can we all take the time to look up the UN definition properly and understand that all the acts that were questionably genocide recently (1994 with the Hutus and Tutsis or currently in Darfur and Iraq) can all be legally defined as acts of genocide?
When I sit in a classroom and all that quickly becomes part of public debate is: "is lynching a form of genocide?" or "is what's happening in Palestine now a genocide?" all I have to answer is: Yes. Yes to all of the above. Look up the UN definition. Does the time you spent really questioning this (usually over and over again), time lost? Couldn't you have been more concerned with the plight of the Palestinians or others—at least enough to not start talking about them by denying their claims to existence?
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