[The First Word: Are Jews still commanded to blot out Amalek?: ](https://www.jpost.com/opinion/columnists/the-first-word-are-jews-still-commanded-to-blot-out-amalek) >We are instructed to commit genocide, which is morally problematic in and of itself. the Hebrew term for "blot out" means quite literally to erase, to un write.