Let's talk genocide and see how Israel's latest atrocities compares with other acknowledged genocides, mostly in the 20th century, because we certainly don't want the word to lose its power:
Israel: 25,000 killed (numbers of combatants vs civilians is not given)
Darfur: 400,000 deaths
Rwanda: 800,000 deaths
Bosnia-Herzegovina: 200,000 deaths
Cambodia: 1.5 - 3 million deaths
China: 27 million deaths
Nanking - 300,000 deaths
Ukraine (Holodomor): 7 million deaths.
(All numbers from The Genocide Education Project)
Words have meanings and to use them for traction on social media diminishes their impact.
The population of Gaza is about 2 million, so Israel has killed about 1% of that population, minus the deaths of combatants and minus the deaths caused by misfired Hamas rockets. So realistically, less than that the 1%. Rwanda's was about 25% of the population. Are the deaths of Gazans horrific? Yes. But it's no genocide.
Just like Uncle Leo on Seinfeld, who saw anti-Semites everywhere and thereby diminished the power of that term, so, too, are you useful idiots doing the same with genocide.
