Genocide

From forced conversion to genocide: How Yazidis carry centuries of persecution into exile

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: The Islamic interpretation of the Yazidi faith is what members of ISIS used to justify the enslavement of over 6,000 women and children and the murder of more than 5,000 people.

A Yazidi woman holds a flame during the Charshama Sor Red New Year ceremony at the Lalish temple in Iraq in April. For a community repeatedly driven from its ancestral homes and subjected to forced conversions, religious tradition has become an enduring expression of survival and continuity.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (center) stands with Troy Jackson (left), who is now running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, and Graham Platner (right), who was then the Democrats' presumptive nominee, during Sanders' “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, May 24, 2026, in Orono, Maine.

Replacements for Graham Platner as Democratic senate candidate 'won't fund Israel's genocide'

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows speaks during a May Day rally organized by unions outside City Hall in Portland, Maine, on May 1, 2026.

Another Graham Platner potential replacement now says Israel committed genocide in Gaza

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at the Jews For Racial & Economic Justice’s (JFREJ) Seder in the Streets at Union Square on April 06, 2026 in New York City.

US Jews view Mamdani more favorably than Netanyahu, 7% say Hamas massacre justified - poll


50 years of Zionist demonization: From the Kremlin to Human Rights Watch - opinion

The NGO advocacy industry and UN officials, such as on the Human Rights Council, legitimize and promote the hypocrisy against Israel by extending demonizing, 'Zionism is racism' propaganda.

UN HIGH Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk appears at the Human Rights Council in Geneva in September. Officials from UN agencies such as the Human Rights Council join in promoting the hypocrisy, singling out Israel, the writer charges.

Israel must counter the ‘Gaza genocide’ label now or lose the narrative forever - opinion

Israel faces a decisive battle over narrative as the "Gaza Genocide" label spreads. The government must acknowledge its mistakes and provide transparent evidence; otherwise, the verdict will stand.

 Palestinians protest to demand an end to war, chanting anti-Hamas slogans, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, March 26, 2025

October 7 was atrocious, but it wasn't the Holocaust - opinion

We must reject the urge to equate these two catastrophes in order to protect truth and preserve the moral and historical precision required to understand both tragedies in their full gravity.

CARS SHOT at and burned in the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, are later piled high at Tkuma, a moshav in the South. It was barbaric, evil, and without justification, but it was not the Holocaust, states the writer.

‘Genocide’ term creator's family says letters support probe request into use of Lemkin name

Rabbi Marvin Hier joined several rabbinic leaders in arguing that using the “Lemkin” name to accuse Israel of genocide misrepresents the history and moral intent behind Lemkin’s work.

Raphael Lemkin

Former Columbia professor claims campus antisemitism focus fosters ‘Jewish victimization’

Professor Marianne Hirsch also argued the Holocaust must be taught alongside Gaza and the "Nakba," warning against “exceptionalism” in Holocaust memory.

Columbia University professor emerita Marianne Hirsch.

WHO discussed use of term ‘famine’ to pressure Israel in December 2023, doctor reveals

Thieren said he was shocked that the roles of perpetrator and victim were assigned from the outset of the war.

Palestinians carry aid supplies that entered Gaza through Israel, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, July 27, 2025

Mehdi Hasan posts, then deletes about ways 'Gaza genocide' worse than Holocaust

"One of the ways in which the Gaza genocide is worse than... even the Holocaust – is that you didn’t have... Nazis mocking the genocide after it was over," Hasan wrote.

Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief, Zeteo, Mehdi Hasan speaks onstage at Semafor’s Innovating to Restore Trust in News: A National Summit at Gallup Great Hall on February 27, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Jews buying the genocide lie betray Israel and themselves - opinion

I’m even more ashamed of those American Jews swallowing these antisemitic “war crimes” libels, betraying themselves, not just their people.

A BILLBOARD in Times Square reads ‘Israel is committing genocide’ as part of a campaign for a soccer boycott against Israel over the war in Gaza last month. No genocidal army ever imported 14,125 tons of aid in one week alone, says the writer.

Greta Thunberg to be deported to Greece, Trump says Hamas faces 'obliteration' if it rejects deal

Hamas collecting hostage bodies • Detained flotilla participant accused of biting prison medical staff • Israeli, Diaspora communities commemorate Oct. 7 Massacre anniversary.

Hamas members stand at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.

Majority of US Jews think Israel committed war crimes, 40% say guilty of genocide in Gaza - poll

While Jews blame Hamas for the war, many have also waned in their support of PM Benjamin Netanyahu's war tactics, a Washington Post poll found.

A person looks on before a Yizkor ritual on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, as a banner opposing Israel's military action in Gaza hangs, in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City, U.S., October 2, 2025.