Contrary to popular belief, no country or person was ever convicted of the “genocide” of the Jewish people. The term was mentioned several times at the Nuremberg Trials but the prosecution pursued the equally novel charge of “crimes against humanity” with its emphasis on the individual. The 1948 Convention on the Prevention of Genocide doesn't reference the genocide of the Jews during World War II, but their systematic extermination inspired it. It was fittingly adopted as Israel was fighting a war of survival by 6 invading Arab armies that had declared their intention to destroy the nascent state. Now the politicized International Court of Justice is considering a preposterous claim that accuses the Jewish State of genocide after responding to the most brutal terrorist attack and hostage situation in history by an avowed genocidal organization that still holds 136 Israeli hostages in its dungeons.

Like so many closeted Israel haters @paulg sees conspiracies and schemes where there are none. This blog supposes stealthy coordination between Israeli high tech and government simply because a reserve duty soldier gave an update on the war prior to a talk of mine. I have never coordinated a tweet with anyone and never will. There is nothing wrong with being sympathetic to the plight of Palestinian civilians, but I will continue calling out factual errors, omissions, double standards, false equivalence and manipulative data. And Paul Graham will continue blocking anyone who upsets him.

The barbarism unleashed on Israeli civilians today must be reported in full. The sanitized headline news reports do not capture the horror consuming the country. Executions in the street. Children murdered. Bodies mutilated. Children and elderly kidnapped. Stand with Israel!