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Genocide is possibly the most despicable crime that exists. Understanding what it is and what it isn’t helps to ensure the topic is treated with the seriousness and respect it deserves.
Conversely, misusing and inflating the term prevents victims of genocide from receiving the respect and sympathy they deserve, and erodes societal guardrails and legal protections against future instances of genocide.
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Raphael Lemkin being interviewed on Feb. 13, 1949. Photo: Screenshot Pressure is mounting on a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization tha
by Ira Stoll
Pressure is mounting on a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization that has usurped the name of a Jewish lawyer and anti-genocide activist to pursue a campaign of strident anti-Israel activism.
Earlier this month, The Algemeiner exposed the extreme anti-Israel activities of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, reporting that family members of Raphael Lemkin are outraged that the name of Lemkin, who died in 1959, is being used without their permission to groundlessly vilify the world’s lone Jewish state.
Jewish organizations and Israeli government representatives voiced alarm at the situation disclosed in the article. Lemkin was an ardent Zionist who coined the term genocide and spearheaded the effort to win passage of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, while the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, founded in 2021, has repeatedly and — despite all evidence to the contrary — accused Israel of planning and perpetrating a genocide in Gaza.
“The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (@LemkinInstitute) is desecrating the name of Raphael Lemkin and the word ‘genocide’ by falsely labeling the Gaza war as ‘genocide,'” the Simon Weisenthal Center said in a social media post linking to The Algemeiner story. “Lemkin was a Jewish lawyer who coined the term ‘genocide’ and dedicated his life to exposing the horrors of the Holocaust. While the Lemkin Institute is entitled to its political agenda, it has no right to besmirch Lemkin’s legacy.”
An Israeli diplomat, Tammy Rahaminoff-Honig, posted about the article from her official government account: “An important story by @IraStoll in the @Algemeiner reveals infuriating abuse by @LemkinInstitute of Raphael Lemkin’s name and legacy, as well as the terms Holocaust and Genocide, for political bashing of Israel.”
The Azerbaijani Jewish Assembly of America wrote in response to the article, “Finally, @LemkinInstitute has been exposed. It has been a platform for not only antisemitic rhetoric but also blatant Azerbaijanophobia. Backed by funding from the Armenian lobby, it has relentlessly targeted Azerbaijan, promoting the dehumanization of the Azerbaijani people.”
The Lemkin Institute, which didn’t answer The Algemeiner‘s inquiries before the article was published, issued “a note on recent criticism of the Lemkin Institute.”
“We are proud of our record and of our unfailingly frank assessments,” the statement said. “It is almost never popular to call out genocide as it is happening or to point to red flags as the process is getting started.”
In a social media post, Michel Elgort characterized the Lemkin Institute’s note as “a very long, vague, and empty statement that didn’t answer the most basic question that was asked by The Algemeiner: Did you or did you not co-opted the name of Raphael Lemkin to appropriate the good will associated with his name and works, without his family and successors approval?”
And light a candle in memory of the murdered Jews, and of the murdered Armenians, and of all people, all victims of a genocide.
Zullen we het genocide noemen?
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This blog loves and respects Gareth Jones may he rest in peace and Raphael Lemkin of blessed memory. They both worked in their own way to bring info of the Holodomor to the West and never let up in holding the USSR accountable for what happened in Ukraine. Mr. Jones it is strongly suggested was murdered by the NKVD for exposing the Holodomor and was kidnapped while traveling through China. You don’t kidnap and murder a liar in a different country otherwise you make him sound legit and you’re afraid of his truths.
A number of journalists, western or otherwise, could follow Gareth Jones’ example. He was a true journalist who cared more about the truth than anything else, including perhaps his own life as he knew full well what could happen if he challenged St*lin and the Soviet Union.
Likewise, anyone with interest in Poli-Sci could do to learn more about Raphael Lemkin and his tireless efforts to make sure perpetrators of genocide got their comeuppance.
“What we have seen here is not confined to Ukraine. The plan that the Soviets used there has been and is being repeated. It is an essential part of the Soviet programme for expansion, for it offers the quick way of bringing unity out of the diversity of cultures and nations that constitute the Soviet Empire. That this method brings with it indescribable suffering for millions of people has not turned them from their path. If for no other reason than this human suffering, we would have to condemn this road to unity as criminal. But there is more to it than that. This is not simply a case of mass murder. It is a case of genocide, of the destruction, not of individuals only, but of a culture and a nation. If it were possible to do this even without suffering we would still be driven to condemn it, for the family of minds, the unity of ideas, of language and of customs that form what we call a nation that constitutes one of the most important of all our means of civilization and progress. It is true that nations blend together and form new nations-- we have an example of this process in our own country-- but this blending consists in the pooling of benefits of superiorities that each culture possesses. And it is in this way that the world advances. What then, apart from the very important question of human suffering and human rights that we find wrong with Soviet plans is the criminal waste of civilization and of culture. For the Soviet national unity is being created, not by any union of ideas and of cultures, but by the complete destruction of all cultures and of all ideas save one-- the Soviet. ” -Raphael Lemkin, coiner of the term ‘genocide’ about the Holodomor
“The mass murder of peoples and of nations that has characterized the advance of the Soviet Union into Europe is not a new feature of their policy of expansionism, it is not an innovation devised simply to bring uniformity out of the diversity of Poles, Hungarians, Balts, Romanians-- presently disappearing into the fringes of their empire. Instead, it has been a long-term characteristic even of the internal policy of the Kremlin-- one which the present masters had ample precedent for in the operations of Tsarist Russia. It is indeed an indispensable step in the process of ‘union’ that the Soviet leaders fondly hope will produce the ‘Soviet Man’, the ‘Soviet Nation’ and to achieve that goal, that unified nation, the leaders of the Kremlin will gladly destroy the nations and the cultures that have long inhabited Eastern Europe. What I want to speak about is perhaps the classic example of Soviet genocide, its longest and broadest experiment in Russification-- the destruction of the Ukrainian nation. This is, as I have said, only the logical successor of such Tsarist crimes as the drowning of 10,000 Crimean Tatars by order of Catherine the Great, the mass murders of Ivan the Terrible’s ‘SS troops’ -- the Oprichnina; the extermination of National Polish leaders and Ukrainian Catholics by Nicholas I; and the series of Jewish pogroms that have stained Russian history periodically. And it has had its matches within the Soviet Union in the annihilation of the Ingerian nation, the Don and Kuban Cossacks, the Crimean Tatar Republics, the Baltic Nations of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Each is a case in the long-term policy of liquidation of non-Russian peoples by the removal of select parts.“ From Raphael Lemkin’s Soviet Genocide in Ukraine
Yes, I called it genocide. It has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being — being able to be Ukrainian.
President Joe Biden on Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine. Quoted during a trip to Iowa and published by the White House Press Office.
It’s helpful that the president is calling it like it is. It’s become increasingly clear that Vladimir Putin is trying to destroy the whole idea of Ukrainian identity.
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, has been in effect since 1951. Putin needs to read it – and maybe hire some defense lawyers for his trial.
Attorney Raphael Lemkin became a refugee after Hitler invaded Poland. He fled to the US via Lithuania and Sweden and quickly became highly regarded for his legal writings on crimes by the Axis powers in Europe.
In 1943 as the war was still raging, Lemkin wrote the book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress. It was in this 700+ page volume he became the first person to use the word genocide. Here is how he defined the term in that book.
Chapter IX of his book describes in detail what is meant by genocide. The concept goes beyond mass murder.
The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.
Vladimir Putin has made clear that he doesn’t think Ukraine is real. He oddly claims that the Bolsheviks invented Ukraine. Unfortunately for the Russian dictator, there’s plenty of evidence that Ukrainians were speaking Ukrainian and had developed an identity of their own well before the Russian Revolution. For example: what is now the Ukrainian National Anthem Державний Гімн України was written before Lenin and most Bolsheviks were even born.
Putin wrote a semi-coherent 5,000 word article last year attacking Ukraine’s right to exist. The article was described as “a masterclass in disinformation” by Swedish economist Anders Åslund. Putin followed up that article with an unhinged public rant on the eve of his illegal invasion.
It doesn’t matter whether Putin thinks Ukraine is a country. It has a right to exist under international laws and treaties which Russia has violated. He wants to wipe out Ukraine as a separate national entity because it interferes with his ambition to restore a Communist-era or tsarist empire for Russia.
So President Biden is correct. He stands on the right side of history — unlike Putin apologists and totalitarian fanboys Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and J.D. Vance.
Standing with Ukraine is standing against genocide.
