France is pushing a bill that would ban people from calling the mass killing in Gaza a genocide. Not because it is legally inaccurate, but because they want to reserve the term exclusively for the Holocaust. That is not about preserving memory. That is about political censorship.
You do not protect the legacy of genocide victims by denying language to describe new atrocities. You do not fight antisemitism by criminalizing criticism of a government. And you sure as hell do not defend human rights by erasing them in real time.
If this passes, it sets a dangerous precedent where words like genocide no longer belong to international law or moral clarity (in France). They belong to whoever has the most political leverage. France is not safeguarding history. It is rewriting the rules to protect an ally from scrutiny.
History is not supposed to be fenced off. It is supposed to teach us. You cannot ban truth and expect justice.
