Gerald Posner

Award-winning investigative journalist | 13x author (PHARMA, CASE CLOSED, MENGELE, GOD’S BANKERS | Pulitzer finalist | “A merciless pit bull of an investigator"

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The word genocide is back on a loop. Macklemore is dropped from a tour, AOC calls the cancellation a cover-up of “the genocide in Gaza,” and Greta Thunberg says artists who stay silent in the face of “genocide” will not be forgotten.

Before the word does any more work it has not earned, read what it actually requires.

I have unlocked the paywall on Genocide for Dummies — the 6,000-word primer I wrote as a lawyer and reporter. It walks through the legal definition and the four modern cases in which a competent court has actually found genocide, and explains why Gaza does not meet the legal standard.

It is time to stop using it as inflammatory political rhetoric.
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It's live on Just the Facts: Genocide for Dummies.

A plain-language primer on what the word actually requires under international law, what the recognized cases look like, and why the evidence from Gaza falls short of that standard.

I did not write it as an advocate. I have no brief to defend and no side to win. I wrote it as a primer — the kind of thing you should read before you enter this argument, so that when you do, you know what the word requires and what a competent court would apply.

At the end, I lay out the evidence that would change my mind. Not a rhetorical gesture. A falsifiable standard, in writing, under my name:

Show me an order or a plan to destroy Palestinians as such. Show me a pattern of conduct from which destruction is the only reasonable inference — one that survives contact with the alternative explanation, a brutal war against an enemy embedded in a civilian population. Show me a competent tribunal that has weighed adversarial evidence, with a defense in the room, and returned that verdict.

Bring me those and I will write the correction myself.

Paywall free link in the first reply. Read it before you call Gaza a genocide.

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@marklevinshow @wajacobson Relying on Qatar as an “ally” is idiocy

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@mirandadevine Jensen Huang is toast

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@BiblicalBeauty It's a decent and smart policy. Some of us have done that quietly, saying no to podcasts that generate more Jew hatred.

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@adam_louis52328 A little late

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Reports that JD Vance is weighing direct talks with Iranian hardliner Mohsen Rezaei to end the war are a high-stakes gamble for the United States, as well the impact it might have on any 2028 run.

He already led the June MOU. It was a weak 14-point framework that handed Tehran early sanctions relief, oil-export waivers, and access to frozen assets while demanding little concrete on its nuclear program, missiles, or proxies. It collapsed within weeks when the IRGC resumed attacks on shipping and expired in August with nothing lasting.

Getting a deal will be only half the battle. Getting this regime to honor one is the harder part—something it has never done.

Vance has been the most prominent administration voice opposing the war. After the midterms he publicly blamed the war for Republicans losing both chambers. Iran knows it will be talking to someone anxious for a face-saving exit ramp.

Color me skeptical.

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@peternolan It should be bipartisan

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Dark money is crushing American politics on both sides of the aisle. Nonprofits that hide their own funders and operate with zero transparency are buying elections. Today’s NYT piece on the surge in $26 million in last-minute Democratic dark-money super PAC funding is simply the latest in a long series.

Even the NYT says "The money powering the left is increasingly cloaked, so much so that it can feel as if disclosed money is the exception rather than the norm."

The public has a right to know who’s paying for the ads and the ground game.

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@PaulaWright @benryanwriter Vile

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@_JimGarwood And that means he has some special right as an elected congressman to give Iran, the biggest state sponsor of terrorism on the planet, a pass?

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What kind of incoming congressman won’t say the Iranian terror regime is an adversary of the United States?

Adam Hamawy, New Jersey’s first Muslim congressman-elect, was a defense witness for the Blind Sheikh convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing plot. His campaign refused to answer reporters’ questions about whether he is the young man in the 1993 photo kneeling at the sheikh’s feet while the sheikh called for terrorizing the enemies of Islam.

On CNN he still can’t call the Iranian regime an “adversary” or Israel an “ally.” Instead he says the U.S. was “pushed into this war by Israel” and treats Iran’s decades of killing Americans as equivalent to U.S. military action. Iran, through its proxies, has killed more American troops in terrorist attacks than any other nation. It funds Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. Their method is deliberate terrorism; ours is conventional military force. Making a “both sides” comparison is ridiculous.

This is the new progressive Democratic left: they can’t even acknowledge that the Islamic Republic of Iran—the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism for nearly half a century—is not a friend of America.

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@_JimGarwood Oh you don’t have to work in a triage unit to have an opinion. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and we are all entitled to condemn it when we think it is wrong. Free speech is not free of consequences

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@JamesRosenTV @YossiShow Congratulations. Looking forward to read it

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@benryanwriter I suppose we are past the point of abiding by ‘the will of the people’?

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When the real paper beats digital: today’s NYT front page is dominated by the first page of the only known handwritten final draft of MLK’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech.

The night before the March, he was alone in a Willard Hotel room, writing it out by hand on a yellow pad after days of brainstorming with aides—crossing out words and whole paragraphs before sending it to be typed.

Long assumed discarded, it sat in a desk drawer of aide Edward T. Clayton for six decades. Now headed to Christie’s where it could fetch up to $10 million. A rare piece of American history, right there in the middle of the fold.

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@davereaboi Delusional

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Hey, a lot of people are having a blast with Grok Imagine and other AI tools generating fake clips of Gazans buried in snow after reports of cold rain and sleet. Many of those videos are already circulating on TikTok and pro-Palestine sites as "authentic" footage.

The millions who chant “from the river to the sea” without knowing which river or which sea will also likely not know that Gaza has a Mediterranean coastal climate—hot, arid summers and mild, rainy winters. Measurable snow is vanishingly rare. A 2013 storm that brought heavy rain and flooding (with some flurries) was a once-in-a-generation event.

Basic geography should beat viral AI. But in an online world that rewards dopamine hits from dramatic videos, the facts are often left behind.

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@BrewPubMike She was on the cover of Maxim for its November/December 2024 issue. She had previously modeled for the magazine earlier in her career.

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Representative Anna Paulina Luna decided there was more than one gunman in Dallas before she had opened a single JFK file. Now, with Democrats taking control of Congress, her JFK fishing expedition might be coming to an end.

Luna just survived the closest race of her career, in a district redrawn to be a bit friendlier to her, and the AP needed two days to call it. She was hailed as a MAGA star after her 2024 victory and the next year launched a high-profile hearing into the JFK assassination. Oliver Stone was one of her star witnesses, and she stacked the witness list toward conspiracy and coverup, ignoring offers from those who had reached a different conclusion to testify or provide information to the committee staff. I never heard back from her after sending her a copy of Case Closed.

As the results came in Tuesday night, Rep. Robert Garcia, who is expected to chair Oversight, told Republicans to “lawyer up.” The priorities he has described include the Trump family’s business dealings, ICE, and Epstein. The JFK files are not among them.

Where I stand: for years I have called publicly for the release of every sealed JFK document. I have faulted Biden and Trump for holding back when the law gave them the power to release everything. I have faulted the CIA for slow-walking files that almost never concern the shooting itself, only some embarrassing side operation or “sources and methods.”

Transparency is not optional. But what Luna launched was “oversight” in which the conclusion was already in the can, and the hunt was for files to prove the thesis. Release it all, then follow the evidence. I’ve done that for more than 30 years, and when it comes to the question of ‘who killed Kennedy,’ it still ends with one gunman on November 22, 1963.

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@GuyThompson_Esq You can send Bugliosi's book to Rep Luna and her staff. I don't think you will even get an acknowledgment that it arrived. At least they were in radio silence after I sent Case Closed

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@ElviraMaddigan Thanks for sharing that. For all of us old enough to recall that day, it is forever fixed in our memory