HAARETZ | Opinions / November 3, 2023 by Nimrod Aloni I doubt there is a single Israeli, Jew or Arab, who does not ask himself these days the distressing question of how someone can become a bloodthirsty and murderous Hamas member. How does a human being consciously and with great enthusiasm go on a monstrous
We are pleased to welcome a new center for research of genocide in Israel. Ariel University in Israel has established a Center for the Study and Research of Genocide under the direction of Hilly Moodrick-Even Khan, a senior lecturer of public international law in the Department of Economics and Business Administration in the University. In
Richard G. Hovannisian was a titan in the field of Armenian Studies – an academic discipline that he shaped with his groundbreaking scholarship and professionalism. He passed away this week, at the age of 90, leaving behind a legacy that is impossible to capture. He lived the life of a public intellectual. He became a
The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Jerusalem regrets deeply to announce the death of pioneering veteran genocide scholar, Dr. Helen Fein, and salutes her memory as a great leader of genocide scholarship. Helen was actively in contact with us beginning with her participation in the First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide which
The following is a report and analysis by Haaretz reporter, David Stavrou, who resides in Sweden, and writes for the paper both in Hebrew and in English. His statement not only reports facts but evokes emotions about the horrors of genocide; conveys so clearly the widespread occurrences of many genocides in our unhuman human world; brings
by Ofer Aderet | Haaretz English Edition | May 2, 2021 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-israel-quashed-efforts-to-acknowledge-the-armenian-genocide-1.9766390?lts=1620128020482 Decades before the U.S. president formally recognized the horrors of 1915, Israel’s Foreign Ministry sought to foil an academic conference on the subject, fearing reprisal from Turkey. ‘We continue to act to reduce and diminish the Armenian issue to the extent of our ability by
Ed. Note: Because of the Corona pandemic, many of the activities of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Jerusalem were necessarily postponed. We particularly regret that our website did not join in a more timely fashion in reporting the wonderful, history-making news of recognition of the Armenian Genocide – and so overwhelmingly – by
by Israel W. Charny An excellent conference has been held in Athens, Greece, December 6-8, entitled “International Conference on the Crime of Genocide.” The conference, which was sponsored by the Pan-Pontian organization of Greece which sports a remarkable 450 or so branches in Greece and around the world, was dedicated on the one hand to
Colin Tatz of Sydney, Australia was a dear and esteemed colleague in genocide studies for many years. He was, for me, a clear thinking, decent, rational, and very constructive thinker and leader. As a Jew, I also appreciated and enjoyed with him his loving Jewish identification and fine ethnic humor – in general, he
On September 19, 2019, I posted on the IAGS listserv excerpts from an article by Daniella Peled, who is identified as “Managing Editor of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting,” in Haaretz English Edition on August 16, 2019. At the same time I reported that we were unable to recover the Haaretz article from
Estricher, Noa (September 9, 2019). Genocide: Five Books on Genocide. Haaretz Book Review (Hebrew). An interview of Yair Auron in Hebrew with reference to five books on genocide in Hebrew: Franz Werfel, 40 Days of Musa Dag; Ora Achimeier, Araratim; Ambassador Morgenthau’s Diary, Israel Charny, Genocide -“And You Shall Destroy the Evil Inside of You”: We
Mr. Erdogan has carried out a purge of Turkish society, punishing his perceived enemies. He has closed 189 media outlets and jailed some 319 journalists. Turkey is ranked 157th out of 180 countries in the Reporters without Borders 2019 index of press freedom. All told, 96,885 people have been arrested, 6,021 academics have been dismissed
In a lecture at Fresno State University in California, Dr. Taner Akcam, holder of the chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University, presented a summary of the stages of genocide as identified by Professor Michel-Rolph Trouillot in Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History.[1] People in power silence or delete history in
The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem Salutes the Memory of the Great Researcher of the Armenian Genocide, Professor VAHAKN DADRIAN We celebrate the masterful significance of Vahakn Dadrian’s numerous researches of the Armenian Genocide. He was a brilliant and resolute authenticator of the validity of the documentation of the genocide at a
See Stanley Jason (July 4, 2019). Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Fascism’ Claim Too Extreme? [Published in New York Times International under title: It Depends on How You Define Fascism.] New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/opinion/fascism-trump-ice.html See Shanes, Joshua (June 28, 2019). Why we must keep looking at politics through the lens of the Holocaust. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-when-holocaust-historians-have-a-responsibility-to-talk-politics-1.7417583 After visiting migrant detention
by Joe Levine Retrieved from Teacher’s College at Columbia University. https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2019/january/driven/ The Nuba Betwixt, Between and Mostly Ignored Sudan, Africa’s third-largest nation, won independence from Great Britain in 1956, but has been the scene of two subsequent civil wars between the primarily Arabic, Islamic north and the black African and Christian south. Though located in
Would you believe this quotation from the War Department Reply?: “There has been considerable opinion to the effect that such an effort, even if practicable, might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans.” WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS August 9, 1944 Hon. John J. McCloy Under Secretary of War War Department Washington, D.C. My dear Mr.
By Israel W. Charny Once and For All for History: Repeatedly, there are articles that report or suggest that the milestone First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in 1982 never took place at all or, alternatively, it is reported that the conference deteriorated severely and just about evaporated. Thus, the California Courier (June
Hightower, Lara Jo (April 14, 2019). Samuel Totten – Words led to action. Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Retrieved from https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2019/apr/14/samuel-totten-20190414/ Professor Samuel Totten is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. We are proud to reprint the following tribute to him. On the wall outside internationally known genocide scholar Sam Totten’s
On January 14, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act, a ground-breaking genocide prevention law, overwhelmingly adopted by the Senate and House, which codifies earlier measures including those implemented by the Obama Administration, and puts in place a set of clear policies and processes to prevent new atrocities. The
Lynne Tracy, Ambassadorial nominee to Armenia, confirms “the mass killings that ended 1.5 million lives,” but will not use the big G-word and say the profanity “Genocide.” In a forceful editorial, “U.S. Ambassador to Armenian Should Call the Armenian Genocide a Genocide,” Harut Sassounian, publisher of the California Courier, reproduces the amazing dialogue of denial
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