A Jew who fled Nazis coined ‘genocide’ — now anti-Zionists are hijacking his name

Raphael Lemkin gave the modern world its most terrifying word: “genocide.” A Polish-Jewish lawyer who fled the Nazis, he spent his life forcing governments to recognize that the deliberate destruction of a people was a unique crime — not just “war” or “atrocity,” but something worse.

He helped drive the 1948 Genocide Convention, and he […] ...