A legal term rooted in Holocaust-era accountability has been repurposed in contemporary discourse to delegitimize Jewish sovereignty while bypassing evidentiary standards.
One of the narrative goals of the Free Palestine cult of Anti-Zionists is to form and sculpt the Palestinians into the Anti-Jews (anti- as in converse) or the new Jews, as a way to both supplant and humiliate Jews, in pursuit of the ultimate goal of erasing the hated Zionist entity.
They do this both by narrative and moral inversion: the Palestinians now become history's most oppressed minority and the center and root of modern Western morality, their "Nakba" supplants the Holocaust, their daughters become Anne Frank, Gaza the Warsaw Ghetto, they are all simply helpless starving victims of a bloodthirsty military machine and their liberation the ultimate sacred cause, even if that means Israel has to be emptied "from the river to the sea".
Jew hate is different from other hatreds because it leads the hater (even sometimes unbeknowst to themselves) into more extreme and deranged forms of hatred, almost akin to a drug addiction: first they dislike Jews, then passionately hate them, then want to eliminate them, but even that's not enough, they must be dragged in the dirt and humiliated, all their sacred books and symbols dumped in the mud, made to grovel for their lives like in a Czarist pogrom.
The "genocide" charge (which they've been making since the 80s) is not a fact or truth claim but a deeply felt need and desire—this also explains why the Anti-Zionists are never happy with any ceasefires and refuse the idea of compromise. They need the world to believe Israel has committed a genocide so they can pretend that their sick fantasy of committing another Jewish genocide is all about Justice and their deep concern for the Palestinians.
This is what fanatics always do, seek to place their obvious hatred outside themselves onto their enemies and paint themselves as righteous benefactors of humanity. There will be no reasoning with or appeasing these people, they will have to be fought, even if that means fighting one lie at a time.
Fighting with the truth will not work. Once they have the mind-virus, they will reject absolutely anything that does not agree with their Jew hate. No matter how much evidence.
Let us start at the heart of the matter. The idea of “the Palestinians” is a fraud that an anti-Semitic world has bought into, especially at the epicenter of global anti-Semitism: The United Nations. Its flag should be a combination of the swastika, the hammer & cycle, and the crescent. And then the UN should be abolished, like The Third Reich was. The true Nakba (catastrophe) was the violent ethnic cleansing of nearly one million Jews from Arab countries where they had lived for centuries, if not millennia, in 1948. Until 1964, there were no “Palestinians.” The term applied to Arabs was invented by the Soviet Union and Yasser Arafat, who was born in Egypt, NOT Jerusalem. Were it not for Israel, the Jewish Nation State in its ancestral homeland and the Arab/Islamic obsession with committing a real genocide against a country the size of New Jersey, the “Palestinians” would not exist as a people. They would be what they were and have always been: just Arabs like any other Arabs, as they always thought of themselves prior to 1964.
It's even cooler to call us baby killers. That's everyone's favorite phase since it makes them feel so superior and invokes emotion and rage against Jews
The real “baby killers” are the Hamas-Palestinians, who used Go Pro to record their atrocities, including burning Israeli babies and whole families alive, as well as murdering Israeli babies with their bare hands, then mutilating their bodies to look as if they had died in an Israeli air strike. But Israeli forensics found the the truth. Did I say Hamas-Palestinians? I prefer to identify them by what they really are: IslamoNazis.
I’m also not pleased with how some Jews use the word genocide to describe protesters in Iran killed by the IRGC. Thats also not a genocide. People just need a term that captures someone’s attention in one second to describe atrocities. But yes, thank you for this. Everyone who uses the term loosely needs to read this.
Joanne, excellent article. At some point we have to be honest about what this has become. “Genocide,” “apartheid,” “colonizer” — these labels are increasingly being used less as legal or historical arguments and more as socially acceptable ways to express hostility toward Jews and the Jewish state. It’s antisemitism repackaged in modern language.
What frustrates me most is how effective this inversion has been. Our enemies have managed to flip reality on its head and, frankly, they’ve been far better at propaganda than we have. Israel is extraordinarily strong militarily, yet in the information war we’ve often been terrible. The hope is that there are still decent, quiet people in the middle who can see through the lies — and that they are still the majority.
Thank you, and I agree with you about the labels. Given how few of us there are, it makes sense that we can’t really influence the broader narrative. And it turns out… we’re not pulling the puppet strings after all 😑
Joanne, exactly. For people supposedly controlling the media, banks, governments, and global narratives, we seem remarkably bad at winning even the basic information war. That irony would be funny if the consequences weren’t so serious. We’re tiny in number, fragmented, and often reactive while our opponents are far more coordinated in messaging. That has to change. But your article did an excellent job exposing how these labels are being weaponized.
There were decent, quiet people in Germany. Hitler only had 30 percent support. But if they quiet ones spoke out, they were persecuted. Sound familiar?
Dana, there’s definitely truth in what you’re saying, and history teaches us not to be complacent. But I do think there’s an important difference. In 1930s Germany, Jews were singled out as the enemy while much of the broader population believed they themselves were safe.
Today, the forces targeting Jews are also hostile to the broader West — Islamists and their ideological allies on the hard left are attacking democratic values, free speech, and Western institutions more broadly. The danger is wider this time.
I actually think one of our biggest failures has been messaging. We’ve done a terrible job explaining that the people coming after Jews are often the same people coming after everyone else. Our enemies understand propaganda far better than we do, and that has been a major weakness.
"Verdict before inquiry." This sorta sounds like the Queen of Hearts in "Alice in Wonderland" where she says "sentence first, verdict afterwards." When I read here that the word genocide was used 24 hours after the slaughter of October 7th and before the IDF reacted I realized that any calumny toward Israel is ok with the anti-semites.
"A growing body of legal scholarship argues that sustained structural domination or cultural destruction should fall within genocide’s scope. The moral concern is real: The slow erosion of a group’s social existence can produce devastating harm."
If this comes to pass, I'll wait for the cases against the likes of Australia, NZ and the US. I don't think I'll hold my breath, though.
Jews against Jews....painting themselves as belonging to the highest order of humankind...they are so resolute in their moral supremacism that they will fight Jewish sovereignty with all the force of their celebrity and prestige. So you've got Omer, Gilad Atzmon, Pappe, Jon Stewart, mandy Patinkin, the Israeli who made No other Land.....the Jewish film maker who denounced Israel to thunderous applause at the Oscars. Vanessa's children, I call them.
Joanne, I find this the most insightful analysis of the false deployment of the term 'genocide' in relation to Gaza that I have read, it really helps a great deal.
When I challenge those who deploy the term 'genocide' with gay abandon that it is conceptually, empirically and legally wrong, one gets that accusatory and dismissive look "oh, you just do not get it" (you Zionist!) or alternative the aggressive responses "so what do you call it?" or worse still the highly emotive "oh so you condone the wanton killing of women and children". This is often a response from high qualified academics even (ex-) friends)!
In the language of Lemkin, I am comfortable with the notion of cultural genocide targeting Hamas's ideological commitment to eliminate Israel and Jews, but eliminating a hateful ideology is not the same as eliminating a national, ethnic, racial or religious group and is arguably more difficult.
The deployment of this term the day after 7 October in relation to Israel's intent was clearly pre-determined, the culmination in the loose, emotive, anti-Zionist and ultimately antisemitic use of the term that has been escalating for some time: it is sometimes overlooked that armed conflict between Hamas and Israel has been ongoing on and off since Israel withdrew from Gaza twenty years ago (it is also rarely mentioned that Gaza was administered by Egypt 1949-1967): the pre-emptive deployment of the term anticipated the furious military response (backed by Israeli sentiment, far from universal) that the atrocities of 7 October 2023 were bound to unleash.
One could go on and on, my toda raba has digressed, very Jewish of me, back to my original intent, many thanks for your thoughtful and thought-provoking article.
It would be interesting to know when Qatar started funding Bartov’s university. I would be surprised if that didn’t coincide with his change of thinking on the subject of genocide.
One of the narrative goals of the Free Palestine cult of Anti-Zionists is to form and sculpt the Palestinians into the Anti-Jews (anti- as in converse) or the new Jews, as a way to both supplant and humiliate Jews, in pursuit of the ultimate goal of erasing the hated Zionist entity.
They do this both by narrative and moral inversion: the Palestinians now become history's most oppressed minority and the center and root of modern Western morality, their "Nakba" supplants the Holocaust, their daughters become Anne Frank, Gaza the Warsaw Ghetto, they are all simply helpless starving victims of a bloodthirsty military machine and their liberation the ultimate sacred cause, even if that means Israel has to be emptied "from the river to the sea".
Jew hate is different from other hatreds because it leads the hater (even sometimes unbeknowst to themselves) into more extreme and deranged forms of hatred, almost akin to a drug addiction: first they dislike Jews, then passionately hate them, then want to eliminate them, but even that's not enough, they must be dragged in the dirt and humiliated, all their sacred books and symbols dumped in the mud, made to grovel for their lives like in a Czarist pogrom.
The "genocide" charge (which they've been making since the 80s) is not a fact or truth claim but a deeply felt need and desire—this also explains why the Anti-Zionists are never happy with any ceasefires and refuse the idea of compromise. They need the world to believe Israel has committed a genocide so they can pretend that their sick fantasy of committing another Jewish genocide is all about Justice and their deep concern for the Palestinians.
This is what fanatics always do, seek to place their obvious hatred outside themselves onto their enemies and paint themselves as righteous benefactors of humanity. There will be no reasoning with or appeasing these people, they will have to be fought, even if that means fighting one lie at a time.
Very well said!!!
Thanks!
Fighting with the truth will not work. Once they have the mind-virus, they will reject absolutely anything that does not agree with their Jew hate. No matter how much evidence.
Let us start at the heart of the matter. The idea of “the Palestinians” is a fraud that an anti-Semitic world has bought into, especially at the epicenter of global anti-Semitism: The United Nations. Its flag should be a combination of the swastika, the hammer & cycle, and the crescent. And then the UN should be abolished, like The Third Reich was. The true Nakba (catastrophe) was the violent ethnic cleansing of nearly one million Jews from Arab countries where they had lived for centuries, if not millennia, in 1948. Until 1964, there were no “Palestinians.” The term applied to Arabs was invented by the Soviet Union and Yasser Arafat, who was born in Egypt, NOT Jerusalem. Were it not for Israel, the Jewish Nation State in its ancestral homeland and the Arab/Islamic obsession with committing a real genocide against a country the size of New Jersey, the “Palestinians” would not exist as a people. They would be what they were and have always been: just Arabs like any other Arabs, as they always thought of themselves prior to 1964.
It's even cooler to call us baby killers. That's everyone's favorite phase since it makes them feel so superior and invokes emotion and rage against Jews
The real “baby killers” are the Hamas-Palestinians, who used Go Pro to record their atrocities, including burning Israeli babies and whole families alive, as well as murdering Israeli babies with their bare hands, then mutilating their bodies to look as if they had died in an Israeli air strike. But Israeli forensics found the the truth. Did I say Hamas-Palestinians? I prefer to identify them by what they really are: IslamoNazis.
Well written and simultaneously disturbing. I have now seen the word turned into a perjurative adjective.
I love that you mentioned the grammar. Been thinking a lot about this too!
I’m also not pleased with how some Jews use the word genocide to describe protesters in Iran killed by the IRGC. Thats also not a genocide. People just need a term that captures someone’s attention in one second to describe atrocities. But yes, thank you for this. Everyone who uses the term loosely needs to read this.
That’s a great point re: the IRGC. Thank you ☺️
Joanne, excellent article. At some point we have to be honest about what this has become. “Genocide,” “apartheid,” “colonizer” — these labels are increasingly being used less as legal or historical arguments and more as socially acceptable ways to express hostility toward Jews and the Jewish state. It’s antisemitism repackaged in modern language.
What frustrates me most is how effective this inversion has been. Our enemies have managed to flip reality on its head and, frankly, they’ve been far better at propaganda than we have. Israel is extraordinarily strong militarily, yet in the information war we’ve often been terrible. The hope is that there are still decent, quiet people in the middle who can see through the lies — and that they are still the majority.
Thank you, and I agree with you about the labels. Given how few of us there are, it makes sense that we can’t really influence the broader narrative. And it turns out… we’re not pulling the puppet strings after all 😑
Joanne, exactly. For people supposedly controlling the media, banks, governments, and global narratives, we seem remarkably bad at winning even the basic information war. That irony would be funny if the consequences weren’t so serious. We’re tiny in number, fragmented, and often reactive while our opponents are far more coordinated in messaging. That has to change. But your article did an excellent job exposing how these labels are being weaponized.
There were decent, quiet people in Germany. Hitler only had 30 percent support. But if they quiet ones spoke out, they were persecuted. Sound familiar?
Dana, there’s definitely truth in what you’re saying, and history teaches us not to be complacent. But I do think there’s an important difference. In 1930s Germany, Jews were singled out as the enemy while much of the broader population believed they themselves were safe.
Today, the forces targeting Jews are also hostile to the broader West — Islamists and their ideological allies on the hard left are attacking democratic values, free speech, and Western institutions more broadly. The danger is wider this time.
I actually think one of our biggest failures has been messaging. We’ve done a terrible job explaining that the people coming after Jews are often the same people coming after everyone else. Our enemies understand propaganda far better than we do, and that has been a major weakness.
And ironically they are the ones cheering on the real genocides . Disgusting naivety. They should be ashamed of themselves.
"Verdict before inquiry." This sorta sounds like the Queen of Hearts in "Alice in Wonderland" where she says "sentence first, verdict afterwards." When I read here that the word genocide was used 24 hours after the slaughter of October 7th and before the IDF reacted I realized that any calumny toward Israel is ok with the anti-semites.
Very insightful into the dynamics at play.
"A growing body of legal scholarship argues that sustained structural domination or cultural destruction should fall within genocide’s scope. The moral concern is real: The slow erosion of a group’s social existence can produce devastating harm."
If this comes to pass, I'll wait for the cases against the likes of Australia, NZ and the US. I don't think I'll hold my breath, though.
Jews against Jews....painting themselves as belonging to the highest order of humankind...they are so resolute in their moral supremacism that they will fight Jewish sovereignty with all the force of their celebrity and prestige. So you've got Omer, Gilad Atzmon, Pappe, Jon Stewart, mandy Patinkin, the Israeli who made No other Land.....the Jewish film maker who denounced Israel to thunderous applause at the Oscars. Vanessa's children, I call them.
The last train car to Auschwitz still ends at the same gates.
It's is not new
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You’re absolutely right. That’s the point.
Joanne, I find this the most insightful analysis of the false deployment of the term 'genocide' in relation to Gaza that I have read, it really helps a great deal.
When I challenge those who deploy the term 'genocide' with gay abandon that it is conceptually, empirically and legally wrong, one gets that accusatory and dismissive look "oh, you just do not get it" (you Zionist!) or alternative the aggressive responses "so what do you call it?" or worse still the highly emotive "oh so you condone the wanton killing of women and children". This is often a response from high qualified academics even (ex-) friends)!
In the language of Lemkin, I am comfortable with the notion of cultural genocide targeting Hamas's ideological commitment to eliminate Israel and Jews, but eliminating a hateful ideology is not the same as eliminating a national, ethnic, racial or religious group and is arguably more difficult.
The deployment of this term the day after 7 October in relation to Israel's intent was clearly pre-determined, the culmination in the loose, emotive, anti-Zionist and ultimately antisemitic use of the term that has been escalating for some time: it is sometimes overlooked that armed conflict between Hamas and Israel has been ongoing on and off since Israel withdrew from Gaza twenty years ago (it is also rarely mentioned that Gaza was administered by Egypt 1949-1967): the pre-emptive deployment of the term anticipated the furious military response (backed by Israeli sentiment, far from universal) that the atrocities of 7 October 2023 were bound to unleash.
One could go on and on, my toda raba has digressed, very Jewish of me, back to my original intent, many thanks for your thoughtful and thought-provoking article.
Thank you for your nice note. I love the toda-raba digression ☺️
It would be interesting to know when Qatar started funding Bartov’s university. I would be surprised if that didn’t coincide with his change of thinking on the subject of genocide.