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Also insisting Ukrainians in occupied territory give up their language and culture or face torture and execution.
This is forced assimilation. A bad crime, but not genocide.
If words are used incorrectly they lose meaning. Which is usually fine, but not for a thing we vowed "never again" for.
Forcing people to give up their language and culture can be considered cultural genocide. Cultural genocide is not included in the UN Genocide Convention, so the definition of cultural genocide is not universally agreed upon. But the UN Genocide Convention does include "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" in its definition of genocide, and Russia is not shy about their relocation and adoption programs, so we can pretty definitively say that Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine.
The Gaza genocide is exactly what they vowed "never again" for. Meir Kahane meant the Jews would resort to the most vicious methods to avoid being victimised again. It's was always a pro-ethnic violence slogan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League
"Never again" is dead. It's happening again right now and it seems nobody with the power to do anything about it cares in the slightest.