Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO
by BigJ1211 on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @07:57PM
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Ethnic cleansing isn't genocide and vise-versa. Genocide is very specifically about murdering a group of individuals for their shared characteristic, not displacing them.
In this case, the Palestinians and other groups want to genocide the Jews. The Jews seem to mostly (or smaller groups within Israel at least) want to ethnically cleanse the non-Jewish Palestinians from modern day Israel.
Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO
by runarberg on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @08:13PM
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A hypothetical genocide—founded on racist believes about Palestinians–does not justify an actual ongoing genocide. And yes this is a genocide, pretty much everybody agrees on that now, you are simply wrong about the definition here.
>...means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group....
Besides Iceland, all UN member nations have a history of land acquisition through force, colonization, or dispossession. By their own definition, they're all guilty of genocide "in part" at some point in their histories, with several in the last 50 or 100 years.