Thursday, June 06, 2024

How We’ve Failed the Promise of Making “Genocide” a Crime

Israel declared its independence in 1948. That same year, the United Nations adopted the convention that defined genocide as a crime. The tension between these two "never agains" was there from the start. The word "genocide" was coined in 1941 by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer from a Polish family, who combined the Greek word […]0https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/israel-palestine-gaza-genocide-war-crimes-icj-south-africa-raphael-lemkin/

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