Source: Common Dreams
by Ralph Nader
“After the long-time skittish New York Times published a lengthy essay by the renowned genocide scholar, Prof. Omer Bartov of Brown University, titled ‘I’m a Genocide Scholar, I Know It When I see It,’ the Palestinian-hater, Times columnist Bret Stephens, immediately jumped into the Netanyahu‑style rebuttal mode. His column was titled ‘No, Israel is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza.’ His cruel and specious assertion, contradicted by many genocide scholars, was that if the Israeli regime was truly genocidal, they would have committed ‘hundreds of thousands of deaths’ in Gaza instead of the mere 60,000 deaths reported by the Hamas‑run Health Ministry. Get real, Mr. Stephens, the Israeli military has destroyed the lives of at least one out of four Palestinians there, or about half a million at least, from the daily bombing since October 7, 2023, of civilians and their infrastructure.” (08/02/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/bret-stephens-genocide-denial