All posts tagged "Genocide"

CNN's Wolf Blitzer continuously challenged Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, for claiming the charges of Israeli-imposed starvation in Gaza were fabricated.

During a lengthy interview Tuesday, Blitzer confronted Leiter with a video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denying reports of wide-spread starvation, and another of U.S. President Donald Trump admitting, "That's real starvation stuff, I see it. And, you can't fake that."

"Nobody could avoid seeing the pictures we're seeing coming out of Gaza, although many of them are in the service of Hamas propaganda and some of them are are doctored in A.I., but there is definitely a crisis in Gaza," Leiter said....

President Donald Trump continued to repeat his unsubstantiated claim of "white genocide" in South Africa — calling it the "opposite of Apartheid" — as the country's president looked clearly uncomfortable sitting next to him in the Oval Office.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa tried to respond to Trump's insistence that "thousands of white South Africans" were seeking refugee status in the United States because they were "afraid of being killed."

"You do allow them to take land," Trump claimed as Ramaphosa protested. ...

During his Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Wednesday, Donald Trump lashed out at the "fake news" for asking a question about white Afrikaners being granted refugee status in the United States over unsubstantiated claims of "genocide."

NBC's Peter Alexander was the first to ask, "Can you explain to Americans why it's appropriate to welcome white Afrikaners here when other refugees like Afghans, Venezuelans, Haitians have all had their protected status revoked?"

"Well, this is a group, NBC, that is truly fake news," Trump began. "They ask a lot of questions in a very pointed way. They're not questions, they're statements." ...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence program, known as Grok, placed the blame Friday on an "unauthorized modification" to its system prompt that caused it to spew information about a "white South African genocide" no matter what it was asked.

In light of Musk's support for white Afrikaners who were granted asylum in the United States by President Donald Trump over an imagined "white genocide," Grok users believed Musk must have tinkered with the program to put the focus on something near and dear to his heart.

Some on X and Bluesky speculated that Musk must have "ham-handedly" manipulated Grok's algorithm "only for it to overreact and begin mentioning [South Africa] in every response."...

Khmer Rouge survivors reacted with dismay Tuesday as a top regime leader walked out of his genocide trial for a second day and a co-defendant sought acquittal under a 15-year-old amnesty.

PHNOM PENH (AFP) – Four top Khmer Rouge leaders went on trial at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court on Monday for genocide and other atrocities during the hardline communist regime's reign of terror in the 1970s.