Archive for February, 2011

Israel, the spectre of 1948, and genocide scholars (2)

Posted: February 22, 2011 in anti-semitism and racism, genocide, Israel / Palestine
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The genocide psychologist, Israel Charny, having read my exchange with Omer Bartov in the Journal of Genocide Research, first posted an abusive, defamatory rant against me (on the International Association of Genocide listserve), including accusing me of ‘anti-Semitism’. The President of the IAGS, Professor William Schabas, quickly apologized for the inadvertent publication of this abuse. [...]

Israel, the spectre of 1948, and genocide scholars (1)

Posted: February 9, 2011 in anti-semitism and racism, genocide, Israel / Palestine
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Readers of this blog may be aware that in a recent article I discussed the 1948 removal of the Arab population of Palestine within a genocide perspective, and subsequently debated this with the US-based Israeli historian, Omer Bartov. The fall-out from these contributions has continued, and it is time to update and draw some conclusions, [...]