The Critic magazine recently called the alleged genocide in Gaza 'a lie'.
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/october-2026/the-big-lies-told-about-israel/
The biggest of the lies is the genocide myth. Days after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 civilians and dragged 251 hostages to its Gaza tunnels, Israel was accused by once-respected international organisations of committing genocide in Gaza. “Genocide” is generally understood to mean the intentional destruction of a nation, a race or a religious group. It was first applied to the Nazi annihilation of six million Jews, gypsies and others in Second World War Europe.
The author is the excellent music critic of The Critic but perhaps he should stick to music criticism.
This started as an article denying that Israel is an 'apartheid state' and then pivoted into genocide denial.
According to the article, Israel can't be an apartheid state because Arabs living in Israel go out and enjoy themselves at night so they can't be oppressed, just like numerous Youtube videos show 'oppressed' Iranians and Russians going out at night and enjoying themselves under their brutally authoritarian regimes.
On the way, the article manges to slip in tsome anti-Russian rhetoric by equating the Chechnya war (not Stalin's relocation of Chechens which is more directly comparable) with the Armenian genocide while not even mentioning the Nazi annihilation of millions of Soviet Union civilian 'untermenschen' in WW2 - the other attempted Nazi genocide of WW2 that receives a lot less press than the holocaust.
Turkey denied its 1915–16 genocide of Armenians, Russia its outrages in Chechnya. On 10 May 10 1976, at the UN Security Council, the chief Soviet delegate Yakov Malik denounced Israel for “racial genocide” in the occupied West Bank. Six months earlier, the UN’s 147 members passed Resolution 3379, proclaiming that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”. Although that resolution would be revoked by a US-led motion in 1991, the calumny persisted.
Anyway, by defining quite clearly what a genocide is considered to be by the UN, all the article managed to do was confirm that the 'calumny' is not a lie.
And as Glen Greenwald clearly pointed out:
https://substack.com/@greenwald/note/c-347437367
If you were an Israeli leader, and believed you were being globally accused of crimes you didn't commit in Gaza, what's the first thing you'd do?
Urge the international media to go to Gaza and report the truth.
But if you know the accusations are true, you'd ban international media from reporting freely.
That's what Israel is doing even a year after a "cease-fire," and the reason could not be more obvious.
[BTW - the comments to Greenwald's comment are worth reading and reveal the polarisation over this issue.]
FNN thinks the problem is that the word 'genocide' is becoming a meaningless term due to misuse, rather like 'anti-semitism' and 'right-wing', and perhaps what is needed is a new word.
The Mad-Hatter might have suggested 'Ungenocide' as in 'A very happy ungenocide to you, to you.'
But FNN think the word could be 'Gazacide' - to refer to a genocide that is not really a genocide but something a lot like a genocide.