re: #102 lawhawk

It’s not about the genocide per se, but the denigration of the term genocide, Holocaust, and their use to refer back to the systematic and total Nazi persecution of Jews throughout Europe towards the final goal of eliminating the Jewish presence there. By demeaning the meaning, it undermines the legitimacy of the term, especially since the Holocaust and its effects are one of the reasons behind Israel’s establishment in 1948 - to provide a national home for Jews that had no place else to go in the world because of persecution and a refusal by other nations to accept Jewish refugees.

I also dislike people using the term Holocaust and genocide interchangeably. The Holocaust was certainly genocide but not all genocides will look like the Holocaust. It’s a spectrum from mob/miltia violence like Rwanda on one end, and the total industrialization of the Holocaust at the other. Things like Bosnia fall somewhere in between. None of which of course implies in any way that the Palestinians are undergoing a genocide(of any sort) or even the threat of one.