Editing Genocide denial (section)

=== United States ===
{{See also|Denial of atrocities against Indigenous peoples}}

The government of the United States has been accused of denial of the genocide of its Indigenous peoples<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Chavez Cameron |first1=Susan |last2=Phan |first2=Loan T. |date=July 13, 2018 |title=Ten stages of American Indian genocide |url=https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/article/view/876 |journal=Revista Interamericana de Psicología/Interamerican Journal of Psychology |volume=52 |issue=1 |language=en-US |doi=10.30849/rip/ijp.v52i1.876 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024}}</ref> by academics such as Benjamin Madley,<ref name=":4">{{cite book |last=Madley |first=Benjamin |title=An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=2016 |isbn=978-0300181364 |location=New Haven |pages=12}}</ref> [[David Stannard]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stannard |first=David E. |author-link=David Stannard |title=American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World |date=1994 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-508557-0 |location=Oxford, New York |page=221}}</ref> and [[Noam Chomsky]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chomsky |first=Noam |author-link=Noam Chomsky |date=1 September 2010 |title=Genocide Denial with a Vengeance: Old and New Imperial Norms |url=https://monthlyreview.org/2010/09/01/genocide-denial-with-a-vengeance-old-and-new-imperial-norms/ |access-date=30 March 2023 |website=[[Monthly Review]] |page=16 |quote=Settler colonialism, commonly the most vicious form of imperial conquest, provides striking illustrations. The English colonists in North America had no doubts about what they were doing. [[American Revolution|Revolutionary War]] hero General [[Henry Knox]], the first Secretary of War in the newly liberated American colonies, described "the utter extirpation of all the Indians in most populous parts of the Union" by means "more destructive to the Indian natives than the conduct of the conquerors of Mexico and Peru", which would have been no small achievement. In his later years, President [[John Quincy Adams]] recognized the fate of "that hapless race of native Americans, which we are exterminating with such merciless and perfidious cruelty, [to be] among the heinous sins of this nation, for which I believe God will one day bring [it] to judgement". |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250208105802/https://monthlyreview.org/2010/09/01/genocide-denial-with-a-vengeance-old-and-new-imperial-norms/ |archive-date=8 February 2025}}</ref>

The [[Second presidency of Donald Trump|Trump]] and [[Presidency of Joe Biden|Biden]] administrations, US media outlets and the US political class at large have been accused of denying the [[Gaza genocide]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zunes |first=Stephen |date=2025-02-14 |title=By Rejecting Evidence of Genocide in Gaza, the US Is Following a Familiar Pattern |url=https://newlinesmag.com/essays/by-rejecting-evidence-of-genocide-in-gaza-the-us-is-following-a-familiar-pattern/ |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=New Lines Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Return of Genocide Denial |url=https://jacobin.com/2025/01/genocide-denial-israel-us-gaza |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=jacobin.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Opinion {{!}} The Genocide Denial of the 'Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace' Crowd {{!}} Common Dreams |url=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-genocide-denial-of-the-pro-israel-pro-peace-crowd |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=www.commondreams.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Genocide Denial in Holocaust Studies: Gaza 80 Years After Auschwitz Liberation |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/28/raz_segal |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=Democracy Now! |language=en}}</ref>