The crisis in Gaza threatens to doom Democrats Dartmouth, Mass.: Accurate or not, when the word genocide is invoked, most people think of the Nazi extermination of Jews. The scores of tribal, civil and territorial expansive wars are rarely designated in the same category. Vladimir Putin’s horrendous attacks on Ukrainian civilians in schools, hospitals and apartment buildings, with mind-numbing pictures of casualties and decimated infrastructure, doesn’t qualify in the public mind as genocidal. As barbaric as it is, civilians aren’t being sent to crematoriums in the millions, thousands shot and shoveled into mass graves, having their properties confiscated and being...