Not validating a trans person as hecking valid is genocide now, friend.
But in seriousness, I think people see this as a hallmark of or precursor to genocide because there
are factions in Israel who
do want to genocide the Palestinians, and the 10 stages of genocide meme explictly acknowledges ethnic cleansing (and especially that recent announcement that Israel expects territorial gains in response to Hamas) as a key stage in the run up to a genocide
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This is in part related to how the Jews got forced into ghettoes before the real killing started. Obviously it's in no way 1:1 as Israel is pursuing enemy combatants as a background, but you'll see them touching on all the greatest hits.