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Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza? (Jewish Currents, 2024-12-19)

https://jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide-studies-survive-a-genocide-in-gaza
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h/t https://mastodon.scot/@alisonphipps/113882665073669391

"Immediately after October 7th, 2023, ... some major institutions of Holocaust and genocide studies determined that their mission required them to speak out."

"... On October 13th, ... the historian Raz Segal, director of the program of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, wrote in a widely shared article in this magazine, 'A Textbook Case of Genocide,'..."

"And yet, amid this ever-worsening assault, many of the scholars and institutions that had issued or signed statements condemning Hamas after October 7th stayed silent.... Little changed even after Amnesty International published a landmark report ... in December 2024. For Nimer Sultany [SOAS] ..., this silence pointed to a glaring double standard..."

SilenceIsComplicity #AcademicResponsibility
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A Textbook Case of Genocide: Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening? (Raz Segal | Jewish Currents, 2023-10-13)
https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide
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Note this analysis was issued on Oct 13th of 2023 . Respect.
"Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans—and potentially expel them altogether into Egypt—is yet another chapter in the Nakba,... But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians..."
"Indeed, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed... And those of us watching around the world are derelict in our responsibility to prevent them from doing so."
AcademicResponsibility #TextbookCaseOfGenocide #RazSegal
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