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Group has twisted the meaning of ‘genocide’ — and hijacked a Zionist hero’s name — to suit its own woke purposes

Few figures loom larger in the moral and legal history of the 20th century than Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jewish jurist who coined the word “genocide” after losing nearly his entire family in the Holocaust. Lemkin witnessed the epitome of evil, and then gave the world the language to describe it. 

The word “genocide” exists because he understood that what had been done to the Jewish people was so unprecedented that existing legal vocabulary could not define it properly. He spent the rest of his life ensuring that the world would never again lack the words — or the legal framework — to confront such crimes.

That is precisely why what is happening now is so grotesque.

The family of Raphael Lemkin is taking legal action against the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that has hijacked his name and repurposed it for its own warped woke agenda. 

In a formal complaint to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and state regulators, filed alongside the European Jewish Association, the family argues this isn’t an academic dispute or a legal debate over copyright — it’s the theft and weaponization of a Holocaust survivor’s legacy against his own people.

Lemkin was a committed Zionist who dedicated his life to preventing the annihilation of the Jewish people. The Institute bearing his name, by contrast, moved with stunning speed after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to accuse the victim, Israel — the world’s only Jewish state........

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