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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the war in Ukraine approaches two years and the Israel-Hamas war continues to receive international attention, the term genocide has reached millions of people on Instagram alone. Notably, as of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke billows during Israeli strikes on tall building in Gaza. Omar Ashtawy/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa Israel's military ...

Genocide happens very rarely. Or all the time. What seems like genocide to you may not be even close by my standards. “Genocide” has become an endlessly elastic code word for everything bad that ...

Samantha Lakin, PhD, is a specialist in comparative genocide and a Senior Fellow at The Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development (CPDD) at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, where she also ...

Paraguay said it wasn’t picking sides in the case South Africa is bringing against the Jewish state but argued that the court ...