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Raphael Lemkin was a Jewish lawyer, scholar, and refugee who gave the world a vocabulary for one of humanity’s greatest evils. Out of the ashes of the Holocaust , in which nearly 50 members of his family were murdered, he coined the very word genocide to describe the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jewish people and other targeted groups. His life’s work was to prevent such crimes, culminating in the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948. For this, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 10 times.

Today, more than six decades after his death, Lemkin’s name is being dragged through the mud by a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit that claims to speak in his voice but does the opposite of what he believed in. The so-called Le

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