Author: Martin Shaw

Emerging consensus among genocide scholars on Israel’s brutal war

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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… Continue reading Emerging consensus among genocide scholars on Israel’s brutal war

New book project: The Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons in Britain

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I'm fairly well advanced with this exciting new project. The book is a short history of the movement from the early 1950s to date, and should appear from Agenda Publishing in the second half of 2024. Introduction 1 Ban the Bomb (1957-63) 2 The Campaign and the New Movements (1964-79) 3 Against the Euromissiles (1979-87) 4… Continue reading New book project: The Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons in Britain

The IPPR report and the continuing salience of political racism

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For some time now, influential voices like Jonathan Portes, Sunder Katwala and Robert Ford have urged 'immigration liberals' to recognise the positive shift in attitudes that has occurred since the peak of anti-immigration sentiment in the 2016 referendum. Liberals and the left risk missing the opportunity, they have argued, for embedding a new, more positive… Continue reading The IPPR report and the continuing salience of political racism