My new open-access article in Genocide Studies and Prevention examines the neglected question of OCCUPATION AND GENOCIDE - from Raphael Lemkin’s Axis Rule in Occupied Europe to contemporary Palestine. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been identified through its extreme destructiveness, but it is now being consolidated through a new occupation—while Israel’s longstanding occupation of the… Continue reading Occupation and Genocide: a new analysis
My new podcast with Nadim on @99zueins covers why we are in a "new age of genocide", the relationships of war and genocide, the "structure of genocide" in the long view of Palestine, and my views on Omer Bartov's new book on Israel and Dirk Moses' The Problems of Genocide--and much more, especially Gaza. https://youtu.be/5OA6MrAKRGY
I talked to German journalist Hanno Hauenstein about colonial genocide, resistance and subaltern genocide, how resistance conjures genocidal fantasies among the colonisers, denial and repression, institutionalised hypocrisy in geopolitics, the importance (and limits) of international law, the political role of the genocide idea, and why the academic study of mass atrocity needs to re-emphasise “genocide”.… Continue reading A wide ranging interview on genocide and Gaza
Gaza is the sharpest edge of Starmer’s domestic as well as international legacy — Read on bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/why-andy-burnham-must-break-with-israel/
Watch here: https://youtu.be/vy6eZRTK2m4
I wrote for the Berlin Review about the long shadow of genocide in Europe's crisis. Drawing on the experience of when Europeans confronted US power in the 1980s, I argue that we need movements from below to challenge our complicit elites. https://blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/2026-05/martin-shaw-the-long-shadow-of-genocide
Martin Shaw 