Pop quiz for everyone who has been screaming genocide for two and a half years.

The U.S. Census Bureau shows Gaza's 2026 population at 2.2 million people, growing at nearly 2% this year, complete with a life expectancy of 76 years (longer than the average US male lifespan) The population has gone up every single year since 1950.

Funny how that works.

Maybe somebody wants to explain how a population grows, lives longer, and adds people every year during a genocide. Take your time. Use your notes. Phone a friend. Ask the professor who gave you that genocide studies certificate between protests.

This isn't Israeli data. This isn't AIPAC research. This is Washington's numbers sitting in a public database, free, updated this year, available to anyone with wifi and thirty seconds they're not spending burning a synagogue.

The word genocide has a definition. It has a history. It belongs to people who were actually being exterminated, as in the population decreased. As in Sudan. Nigeria. Rwanda. Cambodia. The Holocaust. Look them up. Maybe for the first time.

The data has always been there. The problem was never access. The problem is that some people decided what was true before they looked at anything, and no amount of actual evidence was ever going to get in the way of a good chant.