Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke billows during Israeli strikes on tall building in Gaza. Omar Ashtawy/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa Israel's military ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paul O’Brien, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said military action is not a legally sufficient answer to accusations of genocide at a Harvard Law School talk Wednesday afternoon. An ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

So what are the stakes of calling an armed conflict a genocide? Even as a ceasefire agreement takes hold, the term continues to come up in relation to the war in Gaza. Last month, a U.N. commission ...

Projection is the act of accusing others of the very sins we cannot face in ourselves. Knowingly or not, American politicians ...