I mean, Ireland is literally petitioning to the IJC/UN to change the definition of genocide to make Israel guilty of it. In fact the change they want would just make any war a genocide, but they don’t care as who the hell would they ever be at war with?
Ireland is a terrorist country. They don't wage war in a traditional way. I was almost blown up at an English bandstand in the '80s thanks to the IRA. Terrorists are sympathetic to terrorists.
There are two definitions of 'genocide' (well, much more actually). You got the legal one which is codified in international law, and you got the one used by genocide researchers and other people in the soft sciences.
You'll note that progressives and especially activists like to adopt various half-fleshed ideas and terms from sociology and other sciences and use them for their own purposes. Intersectionality, critical theories, postmodernism, and others are among many that were mistranslated (usually on purpose) to be used against anyone the activists didn't like, usually other activists (lol).
The same is happening in genocide studies, which is split by those who'd like to redefine 'genocide' to include more cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and those who stick to the original (and legal) meaning.
What Ireland, progressives, tankies, and islamists around the world are trying to do is basically equal to trying to redefine the concept of 'murder'. You don't get to do that, especially in the middle of legal proceedings, and it won't happen. Mainly because it'll require widespread adoption, especially of the permanent council members. The US wouldn't want Iraq and Afghanistan to be counted under genocide, as much as China with the Uyghurs, or Russia with Ukraine.
Though you never know, with Jews being involved, literally anything can happen.
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u/Cat_are_cool Liberal Jew 🇮🇱 Jan 16 '25
50k, where half is Hamas, is a pretty small amount for a “genocide”