Anatomy of a Moral Panic: The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.

[AloeVera]

24. Please consider.

All respect to you for your efforts with the Rwanda genocide. You are a person of conscience and paid a terrible price. I am sorry for that.

I wonder two things though.

Is it possible your witnessing of Rwanda at a closer hand than most of us has convinced you a genocide must mirror the scale and horror of Rwanda to be considered such? Genocide take various forms and is not a numbers or percentages game. About 5% of Gaza's population has been killed or maimed. Now we find out the Ministry of Health in Gaza has lost track of the dead due to destruction of the medical and other infrastructure. There are dead lying in the streets, unmarked graves, under rubble. Tens of thousands. No one knows the exact number. Back in November the number of missing and presumed u der rubble was 7,000. Also consider the impact of trauma, loss of education, impact of severe malnutrition and emaciation on young children and their development. The future generation has been damaged, lessened. Is that also not a "destruction of a people"? Then look at the creation of famine risking mass deaths, the desteuction of conditions necessary to life and the resulting disease, epidemics, suffering. It's mind-boggling to me, the genocide-denial.

The second thing to consider is are you looking at this in the context of the 75+ year I/P issue? The killing and ethnic cleansing has been going on a long time. I see the current killing and future likely "transfer" of Palestinians outside Gaza in a continuum with a very bad end.

Also it's not religion, it's ethnicity. Palestinians have a plausible right to be protected from genocide per the ICJ based on their ethnicity as Arabs, not Muslims. As you point out there are Christians too. From this angle, "they are being killed for what they are". An ethnic people in the way of the creation of Greater Israel. October 7th is being used as a pretext to accomplish long-sought goals. I see that as genocide.