Pro Palestine apologists don't know squat about "genocide"

How is it possible they are so ignorant?

Here is real genocide. Mass grave unearthed from the Rwanda Genocide.

“Stop the genocide” has become the widespread slogan of the mindless mobs protesting the Israeli war against Hamas. On display is their ignorance of the word’s meaning. Their attempt to compare it with real genocide is dangerous and naive.

I know they don’t give a damn, but here I’ll give them some real genocides.

The Holocaust in which Nazis killed 6 million Jews immediately comes to mind. Ongoing is the Chinese Communist’s genocide of Uyghurs and others in Xinjiang, the largest genocide against ethnic and religious minorities since the end of World War II.

Up to a half million ethnic Darfuri minorities in Sudan were systematically murdered in western Sudan, in what is being called the first genocide in the 21st Century.

In 1994 as many as 1 million Tutsi were slaughtered by the majority ethnic Hutus in the Rwandan genocide. Also in Africa, Congolese rebels, nicknamed les effaceurs ("the erasers") wiped out some 60,000 Pygmies.

Some larger ones include: The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) killed 700,000 to 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 to 1922. The madman Pol Pot was responsible for 1.3 million to 3 million Cambodian deaths from 1975 to 1979. The Pakistani Army killed killed 300,000 to 3 million in the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide.

America has its own history of genocide. We all know about how Indigenous People were forced off their land and “resettled” in the West. Little known among them is this:

In just 20 years, 80 percent of California’s Native Americans were wiped out. And though some died because of the seizure of their land or diseases caught from new settlers, between 9,000 and 16,000 were murdered in cold blood—the victims of a policy of genocide sponsored by the state of California and gleefully assisted by its newest citizens.

Here’s another one that doesn’t get much attention, but it should because it is relevant today:

The Ukrainian famine—known as the Holodomor, a combination of the Ukrainian words for “starvation” and “to inflict death”—by one estimate claimed the lives of 3.9 million people, about 13 percent of the population.

Blame Joseph Stalin, then the murderous dictator of communist Soviet Union.

….[U]nlike other famines in history caused by blight or drought, this was caused when a dictator wanted both to replace Ukraine’s small farms with state-run collectives and punish independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to his totalitarian authority.

Sound familiar? So much for the socialist utopia in which a central authority smoothly, successfully and peacefully runs everything.

Here’s the genocide that the British conducted against my Irish ancestors. It was variously called the Great Famine, the Great Hunger or the Irish Potato Famine. Right, fun is made of Irish cooking (the potato goes into everything). But that’s all the Irish had left to eat because the British in effect stole the rest of the food for export, making the English interlopers richer than rich.

Here’s one description of the genocide against the Irish:

[It] was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. Reduced to living on one crop that became blighted leading to mass starvation. That’s because the British exported the wheat and other crops leaving nothing.

There’s more:

The worst year of the famine was 1847, which became known as "Black '47". During the Great Hunger, roughly 1 million people died and more than 1 million more fled the country, causing the country's population to fall by 20–25% (in some towns, populations fell as much as 67%) between 1841 and 1871. Between 1845 and 1855, at least 2.1 million people left Ireland, primarily on packet ships but also on steamboats and barques—one of the greatest exoduses from a single island in history.

In the 30-day crossing, an estimated one-in-three migrants died. Their vessels came to be known as coffin ships. Stay or leave; a horrible death awaited them.

The English did much more to the Irish. They stole the land. They killed the language. They out-lawed the faith. They smothered the culture. They didn’t give a damn about the suffering they could see with their own eyes. They only saw dirty, filthy micks.

The Byrne family was among those that fled. So, it’s personal. How dare antiSemitic Hamas sympathizers, in their astonishing witlessness, try to proclaim that Palestinians today are suffering the same savagery that my Irish grandparents and all the other real victims of genocides mentioned above and many, many others endured.

Yes, absolutely, Palestinians have suffered, no denying their fear and anger for their deadly trials. But no, what they are suffering is far from real genocide under international law. It’s not just a matter of numbers, in which their dead, injured and displaced are no way comparable.

It’s also a matter of intent and actions. Hamas and their sympathizers, dream of genocide against Jews and Palestine. How else can you call your chant from “The river to the sea” anything other than genocide? Hamas savages intentionally kidnapped or killed. Murder and suffering by innocents was their goal. They have committed democide.

It does no good to try to explain there is a quality and quantity difference, when talking to the thousands who are so empty headed or blinded by their antiSemitic ideology. Who are so self-satisfied that they they have closed their minds to anything else. Who deploy violence to demonstrate their oh-so-great compassion.

This applies not just to the students who are marching, but also to their teachers who preach a one-sided history, government officials who slam their anti-democratic hand-cuffs on anyone who disagrees, the rotted media, liberals/Democrats/progressives and celebrities who figure that their fame makes them special purveyors of truth, goodness and beauty.

When I see the deep antisemitism that motivates the hate, I no longer see the virtues for which America has struggled, in good times and bad. I see an America enslaved by hatred.

We’re headed in the same direction that Germany was headed in the 1930s. This is how the Holocaust started.