The Canadian Jewish News:
Warren Kinsella and Heidi Berger sound the alarm on throwing around the term ‘genocide’
Coined by Polish-Jewish attorney Raphael Lemkin in 1944, ‘genocide’ is a heavy term, yet increasingly wielded today as if it were light as a feather, and without consequence.
Originally conceived to advance legal safeguards for groups targeted for destruction, it’s the modern weaponization and normalization of the word, a seeming shibboleth among anti-Israel and increasingly antisemitic voices seeking to marginalize or stifle opposing voices in the Middle East conflict, that has Warren Kinsella and Heidi Berger sounding the alarm.
