The US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has issued an important and distressing report characterizing violence against the Yezidi people in 2014 in Iraq as amounting to genocide. This is not the first time ISIL’s campaign against this minority group has been deemed a genocide, as I have recounted before. (See in particular a report by … Continue reading The US Holocaust Memorial Museum: “ISIL Is Committing Genocide Against the Yezidis in Iraq”