In 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), a group of 35 mostly European countries, drafted what it called a working definition of antisemitism. The Alliance had been founded in ...
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 ...
Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip has repeatedly sparked serious allegations of genocide. But how does the United Nations define the term? The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...
One of the hallmarks of our degraded political discourse is the abuse of language. Consider some of the words that have ...
LONDON -- The world's largest association of academic scholars studying genocide passed a resolution saying Israel's "policies and actions" in Gaza "meet the legal definition of genocide," established ...
NEW YORK — For years, Marianne Hirsch, a prominent genocide scholar at Columbia University, has used Hannah Arendt’s book about the trial of a Nazi war criminal, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on ...
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 ...
The world's leading association of scholars who study genocide has declared that Israel's actions in Gaza meet that legal definition. In a detailed three-page resolution, the International Association ...