What Counts as "Genocide"?

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The term “genocide” was coined during the Holocaust to describe the intentional attempt to destroy a national, racial, ethnic or religious group, and was ratified by a United Nations convention in 1948. In recent years, the accusation of committing genocide has been thrown at Russia and Israel, Sudan and China, Myanmar and the Islamic State. What does it take for tragedy to become “genocide?”
Rabbi Adam Chalom, Dean for North America of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism (www.iishj.org) and Rabbi of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation (www.kolhadash.com) offers his thoughts.

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@ericmaniraho2260 3 ай бұрын

Good informaation.thanks🙏

@oscarsande.5766 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for your reflection. I have been following your lectures on Jewish history and they have been very useful. I have "borrowed" some of your historical timeline as I share them with others. I just got the notification of this last video and I appreciate your thoughts. Thanks for sharing.

@amnonish 3 ай бұрын

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@johnvermassen Ай бұрын

It is pretty absurd to apply as done at 27:04 that the bar is only achieved if Israel explicitly declared state policy to wipe out Palestinians of Gaza: no country would do this in the modern era for exactly the reason its explicit admission to a state crime that would immediately bind Convention signatories to respond. Not even the Rwandan genocide rises to this level as it was right-wing Hutu Power political parties & their private paramilitaries, augmented by ad hoc community pogromists-who actually carried out the killings, not the normative state or army in the main.