“How do we act with regard to genocide committed by other nations? We deny the Armenian Genocide. The State of Israel (and not private arms dealers) sold arms to the government of Rwanda at the time they were committing the most rapid genocide in history. Israeli government authorities prevent scrutiny of the documents that reveal
by Judy Maltz | Dec. 26, 2017, Haaretz English Edition https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-campaign-to-end-israeli-arms-exports-to-rogue-regimes-gets-knesset-push-1.5629731 Prompted by growing evidence of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, a diverse group of Israelis from across political and religious spectra are putting increased pressure on the government to end arms exports to rogue regimes. On Tuesday, they were out in full force at a
Professor Ben Kiernan, Professor of History and Professor of International and Area Studies and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, a distinguished genocide scholar, has granted permission to republish the following article on the website of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem: Kiernan, Ben (2016 ). Wall of Silence: The
A Major Critique: Israel Sells Arms to Countries Committing Genocide Prof. Yair Auron, Associate Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, has published courageously in Israel’s most influential newspaper, Haaretz -both in the Hebrew and English editions- a powerful critique of Israel’s arm sales to countries engaged or known to be threatening genocide. The critique
Auron, Yair (in press 2017). The Holocaust, Rebirth and the Nakba: Memory and Contemporary Israeli-Arab Relations. Landham, MD: Lexington Press. [Translated from an earlier edition in Hebrew]. אורון, יאיר (2016). הבנאליות של החמלה: על הצלת ילידים יהודים בכפר הצ’ירקסי-מוסלמי בסלניי שבקווקז ב-1942. תל אביב: רסלינג.
Charny, Israel W. (July 19, 2016). Worksheet for Describing and Categorizing a Genocidal Event: A New Tool for Assembling More Objective Data and Classifying Events of Mass Killing. Social Sciences, 5(3), 31. For the pdf version, click here. For the pdf of the Worksheet Chart for Describing and Categorizing a Genocidal Event, click here.
About the Circassians/Muslims אורון, יאיר (2016). הבנאליות של החמלה: על הצלת ילידים יהודים בכפר הצ’ירקסי-מוסלמי בסלניי שבקווקז ב-1942. תל אביב: רסלינג. About Charles Aznavour’s Family אורון, יאיר (2016) (מצילימ (צדיקים) ולוחמים: משפחת אזנבור ו “המודעה האדומה” בפריס הכבושה על-ידי הצבא הנאצי [Rescuers (Righteous) and Warriors: The Aznavour Family and the “Red Poster” in Occupied Paris by
NEW BOOK BY ISRAEL W. CHARNY: Charny, Israel W. (2016). The Genocide Contagion: How: We Commit & Confront Genocide — “a book for learning about ourselves BEFORE!” The book has been adopted as a textbook at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. The instructor writes: The text is highly informative. Chapters 1, 2, 3 and
NEWS RELEASE by the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem A new world organization by the name of R 2 L -RIGHT TO LIFE has been proposed by the Genocide Recognition Network in Athens. The Network represents three ethnic organizations of peoples, each of whom has suffered genocide in its history, the Pan-Pontian
1) “Lemkin on Three Genocides: Comparing His Writings on the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides” in George N. Shirinian, ed., Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017), 253-273. 2) “We Charge Genocide: A Historical Petition All but Forgotten and Unknown” in Scott W. Murray, ed.,
Palestinian Authority’s President Abbas and Other Palestinian Leaders Joined Jewish Israelis in Memorable Planting of Olive Trees A noteworthy event where Israelis and Palestinians celebrated together took place on February 11, 2017 in Neveh Shalom, Israel, the only shared Jewish and Palestinian community in Israel. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the PA, sent an olive
by the Committee to Combat Genocide – a Jewish organization for all people of the world [Israel] https://www.combatgenocide.org/il info@combatgenocide.org This is an excellent study reporting and analyzing genocidal mass murder by ISIS. http://combatgenocide.org/il/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%97-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%93%D7%90%D7%A2%D7%A9-040117.pdf
By Harut Sassounian on April 12, 2016 in http://armenianweekly.com/2016/04/12/sassounian-charny/ In last week’s large-scale attack on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh), the Azeri military killed and injured dozens of Armenian soldiers and civilians, using sophisticated weapons purchased from Israel and Russia for billions of dollars. The Armenian government and Armenians worldwide accused both Israel and Russia of responsibility for the innocent Armenian lives
By Yair Auron | Apr. 1, 2016 | Haaretz English Edition Identifying with Azerbaijan by saying there was mass murder at Khojaly in 1992 desecrates the memory of the Holocaust. In an Israeli forest dedicated to Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, 613 trees were planted last month to mark “24 years since the Khojaly genocide” in Azerbaijan.
Yerevan, May 10, 2016, Armenian Press from an article entitled, “President of Israel Says It Is Impossible to Ignore the Events of 1915.” President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin visited Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem on May 9, 2016 to convey his greetings to the leaders of different Christian Churches located in the Holy Land. Prelates of
Elie Wiesel was a co-founder of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem together with Israel W. Charny and the late Shamai Davidson, M.D. Newly Unearthed Version of Elie Wiesel’s Seminal Work Is a Scathing Indictment of God, Jewish World In Wiesel’s uncensored Hebrew ‘Night’ manuscript, unveiled here for the first time, the
Website editor’s note: Elie Wiesel was one of the three co-founders of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, together with Shamai Davidson, M.D., Director of the Shalvata Psychiatric Hospital, and a specialist in treating Holocaust survivors, and Israel W. Charny who has served as Executive Director of the Institute from 1982. by
Alternative memorial in mixed Israeli village to commemorate rescuers in all genocides, including some Holocaust saviors never acknowledged by Yad Vashem. By Judy Maltz | Haaretz English Edition | Jul. 14, 2016 | NEVE SHALOM – A makeshift sign tacked onto an olive tree is for now the only clue to the grand plan in store
Marketwired | June 28, 2016 http://m.marketwired.com/press-release/-2138404.htm SOURCE: Zoryan Institute of Canada Inc. An interview was held with Dr. Yair Auron, an Israeli historian and board member of the Zoryan Institute, after an article was released by the Times of Israel, announcing Turkish and Israeli diplomatic rapprochement. The relationship between the former allies deteriorated in 2010
By Avraham Burg | Jun. 29, 2016 Haaretz English Edition With his usual capacity for describing horrors of genocide and acts of compassion, historian Yair Auron presents the unknown story of Circassians who in 1942 saved Jewish youngsters from slaughter. The world has all sorts of hunters. Some people hunt animals, others race after flash
by Israel W. Charny June 27, 2016 Woe, woe unto us that the Holocaust, in all its tragedy and as an expression of the ugliest human evil, has become a subject of controversy between intellectuals. On the one hand, there are the unshakeable views of the Holocaust establishment, such as at Yad Vashem, that the
Ahead of international conference in Jerusalem, two rival camps of genocide scholars are at each other’s throats, including accusations of anti-Semitism and debates over the Holocaust BY RAPHAEL AHREN Times of Israel June 26, 2016 http://www.timesofisrael.com/academics-go-to-war-over-the-study-of-mass-killings/ Remember the Jew who was stranded on a deserted island and built two synagogues: the one in which he
By Israel W. Charny Jerusalem Post Magazine May 27, 2016 http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Genocide-scholars-who-minimize-the-Holocaust-and-some-who-are-coming-to-town-455021 We all know sadly how often Jews are hated in this world, but would you ever have dreamed how far they would go in distorting history? Polish born Mordechai Fox, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, wears a yellow Star of David on his jacket during
אברהם בורג Haaretz Hebrew Edition May 20, 2016 Review of Auron, Yair. The Banality of Compassion: On the Rescuing of Jewish Children in the Circassian Muslim Village in 1942. Published in Tel Aviv. Riesling, 2016. (Hebrew) ספרו של יאיר אורון עוסק בסיפור לא ידוע ונוגע ללב על הכפר הצ׳רקסי־מוסלמי בסלניי שבקווקז, שהתגייס להציל ילדים יהודים יתומים
by Israel W. Charny Times of Israel, April 27, 2016 Suppose the Nazis were not murdering Jews but were murdering ‘only’, say, Slavs, Gypsies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses; and suppose our beloved State of Israel were in existence: Would you agree to our selling arms to the Nazis? Israel is reported to have sold billions of
Charles Aznavour’s family hid Jews in their home during the German occupation of Paris in World War II, French-Armenian singer reveals in new book. By Avner Shapira May 08, 2016 Haaretz English Edition. Reprinted California Courier May 19, 2016. “I knew the chains/I knew the wound/I knew the hate/I knew the hurt/ the thirst and
Haaretz English Edition By Ofer Aderet Jan 27, 2016 Prof. Yair Auron’s thesis is clear: Israel prefers to avoid, repress and minimize the suffering of other peoples in the Holocaust and other circumstances, to perpetuate victimization and isolationism. A memorial to the murdered European Sinti and Roma who were persecuted as ‘Gypsies,’ designed by Dani
Identifying with Azerbaijan by saying there was mass murder at Khojaly in 1992 desecrates the memory of the Holocaust. By Yair Auron | Apr. 1, 2016 | Haaretz English Edition In an Israeli forest dedicated to Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, 613 trees were planted last month to mark “24 years since the Khojaly genocide” in Azerbaijan.
by Yair Auron Haaretz English Edition Mar 18, 2016 A poem published by Natan Alterman during Israel’s War of Independence criticizing human-rights abuses was lauded by Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, who even distributed 100,000 copies of it among soldiers; other such testimonies were made to disappear. David Ben-Gurion, May 14, 1948. Credit: Government Press Office On
By Yair Auron Haaretz English Edition Jul 10, 2015 In the only genocide to occur in Europe since the Holocaust, more than 8,500 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Serb forces in a UN-declared ‘safe area.’ Despite the evidence, denial of the atrocity continues. A forensic anthropologist of the International Commission on Missing Persons attempts to
By Yair Auron Haaretz English Edition Apr 30, 2015 Imagine the president of France inviting the heads of the Jewish community on Holocaust Remembrance Day and intentionally refraining from uttering the word ‘Holocaust.’ In 1995, Prof. Yehuda Bauer – one of the world’s foremost Holocaust historians and who has also dealt extensively with research into
By Yair Auron and Israel Charny Haaretz English Edition April 30, 2015 In putting our desire to protect our ‘ties’ with Turkey and Azerbaijan above our willingness to recognize the Armenian Genocide, we in Israel sacrifice basic principle and integrity. There is no political or economic situation in which we Israelis – or Jews worldwide
by Albert Nissman Nissman, Albert (1983). Philosophical Antitheses: Mending the World; Staying the Course; Revising the Age of Triage, JBN Book Review: Judaica Book News, 13, pp.18-19, 42-46. Dr. Albert Nissman is a Professor of Education, Graduate Division, Rider College The following is excerpted from the complete review of the Israel Charny book – excerpted
California Courier November 13, 2015 Following the first conference ever held in Israel on the Armenian Genocide which took place on November 2-3, 2015 at the Open University of Israel, the lecturers at the conference were invited to an hour-long meeting with Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin at the president’s residence in Jerusalem. President Rivlin spoke
by Harut Sassounian Presented at the first international conference on the Armenian Genocide in Israel held at the Open University of Israel on November 2-4, 2015. “Marking 100 Years since the Armenian Genocide” Now that the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide is coming to an end, Armenians consider the recognition stage of the century old
A brilliant and fascinating account (in Hebrew) by Yair Auron of the classic novel by Franz Werfel, 40 Days of Musa Dagh, “The book was a source of inspiration and comfort to young Jews in the ghettos in World War II and also to youth in the Yishuv in Palestine.” ספרו של ורפל היה מקור
by Jonathan Lis Haaretz English Edition, May 13, 2015 JERUSALEM– During the July 8 session of the Education Committee of the Knesset de- voted to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, there was a strong support for the immediate recognition of the Armenian Genocide from a broad spectrum of political parties. Although not a member of