'Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as:
... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention
People still think it means an effort at wholesale extermination with millions dead, and you can imagine them saying 'well okay, what Israel is doing is bead but it's not genocide'. But again, you'd get about half a sentence into making that point before getting snowed under by a flood of lies & irrelevancies, and the point would get lost. There's no talking to people like this, either you rebut the arguments one by one in written form where they can't interrupt (but nobody will read it) or you shun them.
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