The first mention I was able to find in this research dates back to 1794, when Gracchus Babeuf, a French revolutionary, used the term in his book. The Vendée War and the Depopulation System. In August 2024, the American Political Science Review published article About how Mexican liberal republicans, after the defeat imposed on them by Napoleon III in 1867, accused the European powers of trying to annihilate the nation (Annihilation of the nation) from their country. In 2019, French IT technician Julien Philippe — who described himself as “interested in geopolitics, ex-Balkans and linguistics” on the question-and-answer site Quora — took credit for inventing the term (spelled “nation annihilation”), and Ask this question: “If we coin the term “nationcide” in parallel with genocide in order to address the attempt to eliminate or eliminate a nation rather than a people, how can we properly define nationcide and what it might be? [examples] From…?” In 2022, Christopher Demuth will write for… wall Street Journal, Suggest the floor The word “nation annihilation” can describe “the annihilation of the national civilization built by the people – the customs, traditions, civic associations, and practices of self-government.”
United Nations, in Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of GenocideHe defined the crime as: “acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such.” In his quora The speechJulien Philippe proposed the following wording for a similar hypothetical convention on the crime of nation killing: “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national entity as such.”
Here it can be objected that the Palestinian people do not constitute, and have never formed, an actual national entity, and therefore the charge of annihilating the nation against Israel will be a matter of debate. I have a double comment on this claim. First, the Palestinians have long experience governing themselves at the local level, for centuries under the Ottoman Empire and then under the British from the end of World War I to the creation of Israel in 1948. A strong sense of nationalism was clearly demonstrated in their fierce uprising against British rule in 1936 (Britain was committed to supporting the Palestinians) after the influx of large numbers of Jewish people into their lands for centuries. The Jewish state in Palestine in Balfour Declaration 1917).