gaza,-genocide-and-the-world’s-most-heinous-crime

Gaza, genocide and the world’s most heinous crime

The words of the Jewish lawyer who coined the term ‘genocide’ still hold lessons for us today., History Illustrated is a weekly series of insightful perspectives that puts news events and current affairs into historical context using graphics generated with artificial intelligence. Historically, mass killings seem to be an inexorable part of mankind, and yet it wasn’t until Hitler that Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, combined the Greek word for race, ‘genos’, with the Latin for killing, ‘cide’, to coin the term, ‘genocide’. Lemkin had been outraged,2024-04-19 10:09:00,Read More