Genocide

Buzzwords and false allegations are Western human rights inversion - opinion

To fixate on flawed accusations against Israel while ignoring genuine, massive atrocities elsewhere is to repeat ominous historical precedents.

|ByALAN BAKER
Israeli soldiers seen on the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, January 15, 2026.
Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

An original Auschwitz plan, a warning for our time - opinion

I have acquired an original architectural drawing – a “whiteprint” – of the very first design of the crematoria built in Birkenau as an expansion of Auschwitz by Austrian architect Walter Dejaco.

|ByELLIOTT BROIDY
Azeez Al-Shaair, a longtime pro-Palestinian advocate, answers a postgame question while donning the message "STOP THE GENOCIDE" on his eye black, Jan. 12, 2026.

Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair wears ‘stop the genocide’ eye black

“Given the recent events in Israel and Gaza, this nonprofit provides medical aid and essential supplies to children injured and left homeless by the bombings in Gaza,” said Al-Shaair.

|ByJOSEPH STRAUSS/JTA
San Francisco city supervisor Scott Wiener comments on a pilot program to permit private commuter buses to use public bus stops in San Francisco, California, January 21, 2014

After debate backlash, California Democrat Scott Wiener says Israel carried out 'genocide' in Gaza

The California State Senator explained that he had been reluctant to call the war between Israel and Hamas a genocide because of the term's creation in response to the Holocaust.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

Standing with Ukraine, but not risking a greater war with Russia - opinion

US and NATO remedies would need to calculate variously complex hazards of competitive risk-taking.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2025ByLOUIS RENÉ BERES
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte shake hands at a news conference in Kyiv last month. The alliance is obligated to stand with the victim state, but could incur serious risks of a wider war with Russia.

Senior House Democrat, Katherine Clark now highest-ranking lawmaker to call war in Gaza 'genocide'

Clark’s comments came after she was confronted by pro-Palestinian protesters during an event in her district in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

AUGUST 19, 2025ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol on July 23, 2025 in Washington.

Truth under siege: Omer Bartov, a case study - opinion

Bartov's genocide accusations feed into Palestinian resistance rhetoric that legitimizes and promotes Hamas.

AUGUST 19, 2025BySABRINA SOFFER
PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters gather near the International Court of Justice in The Hague last year amid the accusation against Israel of genocide. The line between scholarship and activism has been erased, the writer charges.

Our 'Never Again' is Now

AUGUST 17, 2025ByDR SAWSAN KHEIR
A delegation from Na'amat, led by Hagit Pe'er, President of Na'amat Israel

UK to provide additional £8.5m. in funding to help Gazan civilians

“The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues, and we urge Israel to reverse its decision to expand military operations,” Jennifer Chapman said.

AUGUST 10, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
A massive Palestine solidarity demonstration marches past the UK Parliament in Westminster, on May 17, 2025.

Gaza crisis 'looks very much' like genocide, senior EU official says

"If it is not genocide, it looks very much like the definition used to express its meaning," Teresa Ribera, the European Commission's second-highest ranking official, said.

AUGUST 7, 2025ByREUTERS
Teresa Ribera, the European Union's competition commissioner, speaks during an interview with Reuters in London, Britain, February 17, 2025.

The genocide against the Druze and the West’s silence - opinion

If President Donald Trump fails to act to stop the genocide of Druze in Syria, this crisis may well become his Benghazi.

AUGUST 6, 2025ByAVI ABELOW
US SPECIAL ENVOY for Syria Thomas Barrack must be replaced; he is endangering American interests and allies, the writer argues.

Indicting Israel unfairly: Defining genocide broadly - opinion

We cannot be so hard-hearted to deny Palestinian suffering, exacerbated by Israeli operational failures, but we cannot let Hamas destroy us.

AUGUST 6, 2025ByGIL TROY
DAPHNA SHOCHAT of Physicians For Human Rights-Israel speaks at a news conference of Israeli human rights groups in east Jerusalem last week, issuing a report that accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza. We dare not fall for the jihadi genociders’ con, says the writer.

Novelist David Grossman says Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza, joining a rising chorus

Grossman, a longtime left-wing peace activist whose son was killed while serving in the Israeli army in Lebanon in 2006, has joined a growing number of Jews accusing Israel.

AUGUST 2, 2025ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
Israeli writer David Grossman attends the Letterature International Festival at Casa del Jazz on June 25, 2025 in Rome.

Israel's real strength: Defeating Hamas without surrendering its values - editorial

There is a quiet but powerful moral challenge in this. Dayan is not excusing the devastation in Gaza, nor is he minimizing Israeli trauma.

JULY 30, 2025ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Consul General of Israel in New York Dani Dayan