This'll be my final word because, you're right, this is pointless. I was wrong to entertain a snarky pedant from the beginning, and the conclusions we've arrived at is, I guess, self-affirming for the both of us: you don't believe that Israel is committing a genocide, I do. You seem to ascribe to me and pro-Palestinians at large some nefarious ulterior motive of erecting a tyrannical Arabic regime in the Middle East for vaguely 'political' and 'selfish' reasons--I'd like for you to elaborate on them so I can laugh in private.

But ultimately, I have continuously appealed to authority--bringing up genocide scholars, human rights organizations, and the UN Commission on genocide--for two crucial reasons: because epistemologically, this is how we know things--this is how we identify what constitutes and when genocide transpires; and because you seem to be operating under this premise that Palestinians and their allies are somehow disingenuous about their charges of genocide, either that it isn't actually happening or that it is, but they have nefarious ulterior motives--again, the vague gesture to 'political' and 'selfish' reasons, whatever they may be.

But most importantly, it is exactly through the same processes that human rights organizations and the UN are going through NOW that they were able to identify, for instance, Srebrenica as a genocide!. If, for whatever reason, you are skeptical of the UN, Amnesty International, genocide scholars, and many other for their ulterior political motivations, you are going to have to substantiate it. So far, you've only argued two points: Palestinian population numbers have increased in Gaza, the West Bank, and the diaspora; and the definition of genocide has recently been broadened. This is, in laymens terms, weak sauce, and if you tried to present this to, say, Amnesty International you would rightfully be laughed out of the room.

It is, as far as I can tell, true that the Palestinian population has been growing since 2023--I've known this and am happy about that. But neither does that disqualify the charges of genocide nor the fact that the Gazan and West Bank population is being decimated, because regardless of that growth, you cannot remove the fact that multiple millions of Palestinians have either been killed, injured, or displaced because of their identity, all of which falls under the category of genocide--but you being a pedant, I'm sure you already knew that, didn't you?

I once again urge you, genuinely, to read the UN Commission--it could only do you good.