The first reference I found in this search was in 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, after the defeat in 1867 of the French occupiers imposed on them by Napoleon III, Mexican liberal republicans accused the European powers of attempting nationcide (national murder) of your country. In 2019, Julien Philippe, a French IT professional who described himself on the question-and-answer site Quora as “a geopolitics major, former Yu Balkan and linguistics major,” took credit for inventing the term (writing it as “nationalicide”) and asked this question: “If we coined the term “nationicide” in parallel with genocide to mean the attempted or actual destruction of a nation rather than a people, how would we properly define nationcide and what might it mean? [examples] about this?..?” And in 2022, Christopher DeMuth, writing for “Wall Street Journal” offered the floor “Nationcide” can describe “the destruction of a national civilization built by a people—customs, traditions, civil associations and practices of self-government.”
The United Nations in its Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocidedefined the crime as: “Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such.” In your Cortex discourseJulien Philippe proposed the following phraseology for a similar hypothetical Convention on the crime of nationicide: “acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national entity as such.”
Here it can be argued that the Palestinian people do not and never have constituted a real national entity, and therefore accusing Israel of Nazism would be moot. My objection to this statement is twofold. First, the Palestinians have extensive experience of governing themselves locally, for centuries under Ottoman and then British rule, from the end of World War I until the creation of Israel in 1948. That the Palestinians developed a strong sense of nationalism following the large influx of Jews into what had been their lands for centuries was clearly demonstrated by their ferocious uprising against British rule in 1936 (Britain committed to supporting a Jewish state in Palestine in Balfour Declaration 1917).
