The Holocaust

• President Reagan once said: I have great respect for Henry and great friendship.
• It was during that time that President Reagan got to know Dr. Kissinger well and once said of him, "I have great respect for Henry and great friendship."
• Dr. Kissinger embodied the American Dream that Ronald Reagan spoke of often.
• Ronald and Nancy Reagan welcomed Dr. Kissinger's advice and counsel both before and during the presidency.

• As I delved into the story what I learned was truly amazing and compelled me to pursue and tell the story in this book," said writer Michael Brown.
• Rounded up and shipped to a concentration camp, his life expectancy was at best a few months.
• In the final analysis, this book is a story that had to be told about the human spirit, love, and triumph.
• Michael Brown is a retired Hollywood film editor and the winner of three Emmy Awards.

• This immersive experience from the Claims Conference about the pogroms, announced today on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht – the "night of broken glass" – is being produced in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation, Meta, UNESCO and World Jewish Congress (WJC).
• This Kristallnacht VR project combines cutting-edge technology with much-needed Holocaust education.
• Users will be able to engage in a Q&A, asking questions about Kristallnacht, Knobloch's family and the Holocaust in general.
• As we mark the 85th anniversary of the gruesome events of November 9th, 1938, we congratulate Claims Conference on realizing the Kristallnacht VR project.

• The attack, some Israel supporters and political observers note, must be seen in the light of Hamas leaders repeatedly stated goal of destroying Israel and their recent promise to attack Israel “again and again” until it is gone.
• Pro-Palestinian supporters see this as part of a longer history of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
• U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib amplified these allegations when she said on Nov. 4 that President Joe Biden is guilty of supporting genocide in Gaza.
• As the Israel-Hamas conflict grinds on amid continuing genocide allegations, it’s crucial to understand what genocide actually is and how this term has been used for political purposes in the past.

What is genocide?

• His definition also encompasses cultural genocide.
• The 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention specifies that genocide can happen by killing and destroying a group, preventing births and transferring children to another group, among other means.
• At the time, some countries used the convention as a political tool to obscure their own histories of genocide.
• This made it less likely the U.S. would be charged with genocide for Jim Crow policies that enforced segregation of Black Americans.

Using genocide for political reasons

• Governments and political leaders have long used genocide claims to make threats against other countries or to provide a rationale for foreign intervention, ostensibly to ward off a genocide.
• There is also a long history of government officials arguing about the definition of genocide to deny that it was actually happening.
• Today, countries like Russia and China continue to deny that they are committing what many experts consider genocide.

Three ways genocide is discussed

• In my research, I have found that people often approach genocide in three ways.
• First, legal scholars contend that before violence is considered genocide, it is necessary to demonstrate that what occurred neatly matches what the Genocide Convention spells out.

Genocide and the Israel-Hamas war

• People are using these three different interpretations of genocide to characterize the Israel-Hamas war.
• Genocide, for all its conceptual limitations, provides a way of understanding the violence in Israel and Gaza.
• And so, people invoke the word genocide in its conventional sense, sometimes through genocide-related hashtags and slogans.
• Her remarks echo those of others who say that it is Israelis who are at risk of genocide.

Alexander Hinton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.