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Ok, so you have your own definition of genocide that doesn't include an actual attempt, and intent, to wipe out the group that is the victim of the genocide. That's fine.
My definition accords with every legal and scholarly definition of genocide.
 
My definition accords with every legal and scholarly definition of genocide.
Scholarly is fine, but you keep referencing "systematic" killing and that isn't a criteria for the international, legal definition of genocide.
 
Go find in that text where is says SYSTEMATIC is NOT a property of genocide.
Like I said earlier, you can make up whatever definition you'd like, just don't expect anyone to care when there is an internationally, accepted definition.
 
Like I said earlier, you can make up whatever definition you'd like, just don't expect anyone to care when there is an internationally, accepted definition.
Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
 

Al Letson:You’ve said in the past that Jews in particular need to speak out about what’s happening and how history will look back at this time period. Why do you think it’s so important for Jewish people to speak up at this time?
Jason Stanley:Well, first of all, because the genocide is being perpetrated in our name, there’s a long tradition of European Jews from which I come who do not accept, from my father’s side. My mother’s Polish Jewish and has very different views about Israel than I do, and I’m not questioning, I don’t know what it means to question the existence of a state as Israel’s there, nobody should be killed in Israel, nobody should be moved away from Israel, it’s there, but Israel should stop the practice of apartheid. Obviously, they should not commit a genocide, and it’s the first televised genocide in human history.

 
Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Right. Systematic isn't in there.
 
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