{"id":6623,"date":"2025-07-29T19:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6623"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:37:14","slug":"gaza-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6623","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=6213\">Back in January of 2024<\/a> I asked if what was going on in Gaza was a genocide. My answer was essentially &#8220;probably yes, but <em>genocide<\/em> has a definition that includes acts of mass violence other than the stereotypical scenes of mass death in ghettoes and concentration that many associate with the term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s really no need to delve into technicalities anymore: what is now going on is clearly genocide, even if one restricts the term to mean the more narrow and stereotypical meanings it has in popular usage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/a-betrayal-of-the-victims-of-the\">The parallels are just so many.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January of 2024 I asked if what was going on in Gaza was a genocide. My answer was essentially &#8220;probably yes, but genocide has a definition that includes acts of mass violence other than the stereotypical scenes of mass death in ghettoes and concentration that many associate with the term.&#8221; Well, there&#8217;s really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6624,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions\/6624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}