I’m probably dating myself by citing the old Michael Kinsley definition of a gaffe as being a moment when a politician inadvertently blurts out a truth that wasn’t supposed to be spoken. In the case of Rep. Katherine Clark’s reference to Israel’s actions in Gaza amounting to ‘genocide,’ she didn’t commit a strict Kinsley gaffe per se, in that she blurted out a truth. Instead, her remarks probably reflect what she’s truthfully thinking or close to believing about Israel – and yet shouldn’t have said as the No. 2 ranking Democrat in the U.S. House. I guess that makes her original comment a variation of a Kinsley gaffe. … Anyway, Clark has since, somewhat unconvincingly, walked back her ‘genocide’ remarks, via the JNS and Globe.