It required significant emotional and mental energy for me to write this article.Within it, I tried to academically dissect the reactions to reports of sexual violence on October 7th and their subsequent aftermath. The main question is how do we address violence without reproducing more violence?
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The Journal of Genocide Research has a Forum on Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Its latest piece is “Understanding Sexual Violence Debates Since 7 October: Weaponization and Denial” by Anwar Mhajne www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We been saying, folks
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The Journal of Genocide Research has published Nimer Sultany, “A Threshold Crossed: On Genocidal Intent and the Duty to Prevent Genocide in Palestine” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Much for the ICJ and others to ponder
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Who should resign I wonder
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It was good to talk about the catastrophization of memory in Germany with Uni of Manchester scholars today events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1bddb9...
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A new article of the law of genocide re: Israel in Gaza by @msjamshidi.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Thanks to the College of Staten Island for the invitation
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#Famine now imminent in Nthn #Gaza. Up to 1.1 million people in Gaza could face the most severe levels of hunger. Famine is about lack of food; malnutrition; & deaths from starvation or disease caused by malnutrition. Lack of food & malnutrition now reached in Gaza. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/w...
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We are starting a discussion on catastrophization and German memory culture at City College.
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The 10th piece in the Journal of Genocide Research forum on Israel-Palestine is out: "Gaza as Twilight of Israel Exceptionalism: Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Unprecedented Crisis to Unprecedented Change" by Ras Segal & Luigi Daniele www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Hey boys, instead of being triggered why don’t you educate yourself a bit. Here’s a good place to start muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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"It is sometimes forgotten that the United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of Genocide of 1948 prohibits 'direct and public incitement to commit genocide.
By Dirk Moses
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Do we really need to relitigate this? Apparently we do. It is, to use the technical term, utter bollocks. There’s a robust deconstruction of this nonsense here, by Matthew Fitzpatrick and A. Dirk Moses. www.abc.net.au/religion/naz...
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Thanks George
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The Journal of Genocide Research Forum on Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies now has 9 free access pieces www.tandfonline.com/journals/cjg...
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The 7th piece in the Journal of Genocide Research forum is “Gaza as a Laboratory 2.0” by Shmuel Lederman www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ungor's work has always pressed me, forced me to think about issues in new ways, opened up routes of inquiry... his foray into the debate over the term "genocide" in the context of Gaza is no exception. From the series edited by @dirkmoses.bsky.social
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The fifth part of the Journal of Genocide Research forum on Israel-Palestine-Atrocity Crimes is out: “A World Without Civilians,” by Elyse Semerdjian www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I really appreciated this thoughtful Mark Levene essay, "Gaza 2023: Words Matter, Lives Matter More" in a special edition of Journal of Genocide Research, edited by @dirkmoses.bsky.social
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Cheers Howard. And there are many more essays to come in the forum.
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“Testimonial 14: Germany can censor its scholars, but it cannot hide its complicity” www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
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In @zeit.de schreibt unser Direktor @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social über die Halbzeitbilanz der Ampel in Sachen kolonialer Aufarbeitung. Es werde mehr ab- als aufgearbeitet. Deutliche Worte findet er auch zur abflauenden Aufarbeitung in den Ländern, leider auch bei uns.
www.zeit.de/2024/03/deut...
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Journalismus zwischen Axt-Attacken, Agitationen und Angst-Ideologien:
Wie gelingt eine öffentliche Debatte, die dem großen Diskurswunsch in der deutschen Gesellschaft gerecht wird?
Ich war dazu Gast beim Deutschlandfunk und sprach mit @froesin.bsky.social.
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„Özyürek plädiert dafür, universelle Menschenrechte als die zentrale Lehre aus dem Holocaust zu ziehen. Das mache es auch für junge Muslime einfacher, einen Zugang zur deutschen Erinnerungskultur zu finden.“
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“By the reasoning of international lawyers supporting Israel's war in Gaza today, there are no limits to the number of Palestinian civilians who can be killed incidentally in the pursuit of Israeli military objectives.” @dirkmoses.bsky.social dawnmena.org/why-the-inte...
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A conversation with Nathan Thrall
jewishcurrents.org/a-day-in-the...
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An excellent analysis of the German memory crisis
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A speech that ended with deportation threats.
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I give the background/context to the Masha Gessen cancellation in this article about documenta15. In light of recent events, including the Oyoun defunding, its conclusion that "cultural freedom is in mortal danger in Germany" seems right.
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German Catechism strikes again lithub.com/masha-gessen...
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Special issue on @dirkmoses.bsky.social’s The Problems of Genocide @global-ih.bsky.social thanks to @rosariolopez.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgi...
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This entire essay on settler violence in the WB is worth your time
"The slow trajectories of movement and control suggest an ethnic cleansing in slow motion. Palestinian civilians have been left to endure an unpredictable & often violent campaign by their neighbors.There’s nobody to call for help."
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This Hebrew-language article mekomit.co.il/ps/130869/ by Yuval Abraham from @972mag takes up my argument about "permanent security" to explain the dramatic, destructive developments in Israeli policy. I hope it's translated. #Gaza #Permanentsecurity
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Appreciated this wide-ranging conversation on conditions in Palestine post-October 7 with @danaelkurd.bsky.social on the Parallax Views podcast (also on Spotify, Apple Music): www.podbean.com/ep/pb-3iutf-...
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Now In translation, a letter from Berlin www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...
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Must-read report from the front of the German memory wars massreview.org/node/11675
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»Im Ringen um ein Verständnis für die Ursachen der Gewalt in Israel und Palästina ist die Berufung auf den Holocaust gefährlich falsch«. Ein offener Brief von Bartov Omer , @dirkmoses.bsky.social, Deborah Dwork u.a.m. tagebuch.at/2023/11/offe...
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Congrats Hans! 🐓
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A great job opportunity for MENA politics folks
careers.idea.int/jobs/3382913...
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Would a German newspaper dare publish this searing essay by Raz Segal? “Here’s what the mass violence in Gaza looks like to a scholar of genocide” - Los Angels Times. @pbahners.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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More than Genocide
The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.
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Thank you Emil
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