A chart is circulating on social media: in Cambodia, in Rwanda and among Jews during the Holocaust the population fell, in Gaza it grew, so there can be no genocide there. But the Genocide Convention does not ask about population size, the curve did not fall for the Yazidis, the Rohingya or the Ixil, and the chart's figures for Gaza are a pre-war projection. According to Palestinian statisticians, the population of Gaza has fallen. We explain what defines genocide and where the dispute over Gaza really stands.
10/30/2026
Israel's election has ended in deadlock. According to preliminary results, Netanyahu's bloc has 53 seats and Gadi Eisenkot's opposition 48. The Arab parties won 19 seats, the most in their history. Without them, nobody can form a majority; with them, almost nobody wants to govern. We look at who voted how, why Arab voters turned out and what comes next for Israel.
10/28/2026
Pre-election polls put Eisenkot's Yashar in the lead, and the overnight running tally overstated Likud. From the first hour of the count, the DataTimes.cz prediction showed a stalemate: Netanyahu's bloc will end up with 53 seats, Gadi Eisenkot's opposition with 48, and the 19 members of the Arab parties will decide whether anyone has a majority.
10/27/2026
