Genocide is back in the news. At a joint White House press conference (November 21, 2025), New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, in answer to a reporter’s question said, “I have spoken about the Israeli government committing genocide, and I have spoken about our government funding it.”

It is very unsettling when the mayor-elect of the most Jewishly populated city in the US foments more hate and untruths against its Jewish citizens and their ancestral homeland. Notably, it was disappointing and surprising that President Trump, by being silent, did not rebut Momdani’s false and inflammatory genocidal accusation.

It might be time to look into this claim of “the Israeli government committing genocide.”

Genocide definition: According to the United Nations, genocide is any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious physical or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Intentionally subjecting the group to living conditions intended to cause its physical destruction, in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures aimed at preventing the birth of children within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children from the group to another group. More simply put, the Oxford Dictionary defines genocide as the murder of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group, with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Examples of genocidal events: the Spanish Inquisition in the 1400s, the Holocaust of World War II, and the Islamic conquests, including Pakistan (against Hindus), Western Thrace (against Christians) and Anatolia, Turkey (against Christians), and now in Nigeria (against Christians).

The accusations of certain worldwide government politicians and left-leaning progressive organizations that Israel is committing ‘genocide’ of Palestinians is incredulous on many levels.........

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