“No one is looking at us or the extent of this disaster or the crimes that we are experiencing in Gaza,” he said. Still holding his microphone, he slid off his flak jacket marked with the word PRESS and unstrapped his helmet.
“These protection jackets and helmets don’t protect us,” he said, flinging the equipment to the ground. “Nothing protects journalists. … We lose our lives for no reason.”
There is a word for what Israel is doing: Holocaust.
No. The word is genocide. The holocaust was the genocide of the European Jew.
I know this is a roughly off topic destruction, but if anyone is curious as to why, it’s because when these atrocities were discovered they needed to be given a name.
Originally it was called the Hurban (with a dot under the H like ụ but my phone won’t make it) - after the destruction of Jewish temples in 600 BCE and 50 CE, and there was division there because Hurban was to refer to the Jewish cost of life, but eventually it came be that the Holocaust (which means, “burnt sacrifice”) refers to all victims.
But this term was an obscure term prior to the 1940s, that then has been taken on board to describe… well… the Holocaust.