Holocausts

This word, whole/holos, burnt/kaustos was first coined by the 12th century English chronicler Richard of Devizes to specifically refer to the practice of the deliberate mass slaughter of Jews, in London.

Some 800 years later, should you be strongly inclined to widen its usage to encompass what may appear to be similar phenomena, I would suggest that you are going to need to be 100% sure that your motivation is free of any anti-Israelite bigotry.

Some of the same concerns surround the use of the term genocide in reasoned debate right now, specifically the manner with which it is presently being deployed, libellously, by members of the 'Free Palestine' cult.

Before permitting this extra charge to the discourse, ask yourself why it is seemingly so important in the first place to this cause and its prevailing obsessions.

Three key reasons absolutely stand out for me.

1) It's their calling card for carefree detachment from all forms of strictly fact-based debate.

2) It distracts everyone from the rather blatantly fascistic and genocidal aspects of the Hamas — and wider Islamist — project, as well as from the import of those chants of 'from the river to the sea'.

3) It represents an attempt to downplay and ultimately delegitimise two millennia of Jewish historical experience, quite unique in terms of repetitive 'Holocaust' events.