Zohran Mamdani's genocide accusation matters far beyond Israel - opinion

Few words carry the weight of “genocide.” Raphael Lemkin coined it in the shadow of the Holocaust to describe one thing: the intentional effort to destroy a people because of who they are. Because the accusation is so grave, when an elected official invokes it, he lends the authority of his office to the gravest cha…

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