In 2010, I wrote Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide, a pioneering argument for the relevance of ‘genocide’ to Israel-Palestine. Later that year, in a debate in the Journal of Genocide Research prompted by my article, the Holocaust historian Omer Bartov strongly disagreed.
It is therefore particularly striking that Omer has spoken out in the New York Times (10 November) to warn of the danger of genocide in today’s Israeli war in Gaza. My interpretation is, as I have explained in New Lines, that this is already a genocidal war. The convergence of our views is striking testimony to the horrendous nature of what Israel is now doing to Gazans.
Martin Shaw 