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Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Jerusalem Fails to Gain Israel’s Recognition of Armenian Genocide for April 24, 2022; Jerusalem Post Editorial Supports Recognition

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The several-months campaign of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Jerusalem to influence the Israeli government to recognize the Armenian Genocide as of April 24, 2022 failed to achieve its goal, but we can hope nonetheless that it left some positive influences which will yet be helpful in the future. We argued that the

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“THE FAMILY OF GENOCIDES REPRESENTS A UNIVERSAL SICKNESS OF MANKIND”: A conversation with Professor Israel Charny

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“The Family of Genocides Represents a Universal Sickness of Mankind.” A Conversation with Professor Israel Charny by Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca (June 22, 2021). In GARIWO website, Milan, Italy [GARIWO=Garden of the Righteous Worldwide.] https://en.gariwo.net/interviews/the-family-of-genocides-represents-a-universal-sickness-of-mankind-23905.html  Israel Charny is an Israeli psychotherapist and a well-known genocide scholar. He is a specialist in the treatment of Holocaust survivors,

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United States Completes Full Recognition of the Armenian Genocide

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April 24, 2021 Today, April 24, 2021, Armenian Genocide Memorial Day, is now also the historic day on which the United States of America has completed full recognition of the Armenian Genocide after many years of evasion. In the past there have been sparks of recognition from one or another senior level of American governance,

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New Book: Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide

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by Israel W. Charny When the Turkish government demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide at Israel’s First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit. This book follows the author’s gutsy campaign against his government and his quest

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Genocide Scholars Justify Legitimate Analogies to Holocaust

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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

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Roger Smith Awarded Doctor of Letters Degree by Saint Andrews University

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Roger W. Smith, a member of the International Council on the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by St. Andrews University in December 2017 in recognition of his contributions to genocide studies and political theory. St Andrews is Scotland’s oldest university (1413), and it

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Robert Fisk Joins International Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide

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The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem is proud to announce that the iconic English writer for the London Independent has joined the International Council of the Institute.  Robert Fisk has been Middle East correspondent for some 40 years, much of the time based in Beirut.  He is an Arabic speaker and was

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