The legal definition of genocide imposes a demanding standard. Not every mass atrocity qualifies, even when the scale of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Graves of murdered civilians in Potocari, Srebrenica. dotshock/Shutterstock This July marks the thirtieth anniversary of the ...

Paul O’Brien, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said military action is not a legally sufficient answer to accusations of genocide at a Harvard Law School talk Wednesday afternoon. An ...

In a tweet last year (that I just came across), the Lemkin Institute for the Prevention of Genocide, long captured by the far left, writes: "The Lemkin Institute has had it with the cynical lies and ...

Here in the U.S., Senator Elizabeth Warren says she believes Israel’s assault on Gaza meets the legal definition of a genocide. Warren made the remark as she visited a mosque and was asked by ...

South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice alleges that Israel is violating international law by committing and failing to prevent genocidal acts “to destroy Palestinians ...

THE world watched in horror as Gaza was reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians have been killed, millions displaced. In the past two years, discussions of genocide have returned to the center of ...

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 ...

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with legal expert on genocide ...