In response to some Democrats accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Andy Beshear dismisses this charge, arguing: “That’s becoming one of those new litmus tests that we said we would never, never do as a party again. It’s trying to throw out a word and are you going to raise your hand or are you not going to?” However, Israeli Holocaust and genocide researchers — Amos Goldberg, Omer Bartov, Daniel Blatman, Raz Segal and Shmuel Lederman — have all identified Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide. Goldberg writes: “What is happening in Gaza is genocide because the...