Does widening the definition of genocide risk making it so broad as to void it of any particular meaning?
Letters to the Editor, January 10th: on Ireland, Israel and the ICJ genocide case, and the National Women’s Council
There comes a point when, however reluctantly, having seen a succession of actions that resemble the walking and quacking of a duck, an observer might reasonably infer that these actions are, in fact, being performed by a duck. – Yours, etc,‘I stepped through a door and emerged as a US citizen - but now comes the journey of belonging’
The published prospectus for “Israel bonds” repeatedly notes their significance in sustaining the Israeli state’s “war in Gaza”; in other words, in continuing the “general pattern of widespread and systematic acts” that Ireland proposes may well amount to genocide. However, he did not quote the former UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, who after also visiting the region found that accusations of violations by the Chinese government against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities – including torture, forced labour, and mass imprisonment in internment camps – were not only credible but “may constitute . . . crimes against humanity”.
Given that the Chinese government is actively using tourism and media trips to present a Potemkin village version of the region, something documented by other international journalists, an article like Mr Staunton’s runs the risk of acting as an uncritical mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party. – Yours, etc,, I would like to correct Barry Walsh’s reference to the National Women’s Council as an “unelected and completely unrepresentative body”.
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