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 ...

The protest is a meticulously worded declaration of intellectual resistance against what these scholars describe as the ...

Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip has repeatedly sparked serious allegations of genocide. But how does the United Nations define the term? The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both sides in the Israel-Hamas war have accused each other of intending to commit, or carrying out, a campaign of genocide against their respective populations. But what is the term’s legal definition ...

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 ...

"The effort to exploit the accusation of genocide against Israel empties the term of its power and significance," writes the ...