My new article explains what Burnham and Miliband should really be doing about Israel—breaking the UK’s alliance with the genocidal state, not pleading with it to change course; sanctioning the state, not just the settlers and individual ministers. After nearly three years of complicity, ‘The UK must belatedly fulfil its duty to prevent genocide and… Continue reading What Burnham should really be doing about Israel
Category: genocide
Israels Genozid begann nicht am 7.Oktober
Part of my podcast interview with Hanno Hauenstein has been translated into German and published by ND.
Occupation and Genocide: a new analysis
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
Podcast on “the new age of genocide” (and more)
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
A wide ranging interview on genocide and Gaza
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
Brighton talk they tried to ban – now on YouTube
Watch here: https://youtu.be/vy6eZRTK2m4
Israel: did it go wrong? I wrote about Omer Bartov’s new book
Europe’s Crisis: The Long Shadow of Genocide
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
Talking about Gaza, genocide and war
In conversation with Na’amod, London 12 April
Na'amod is an organisation of Jews who oppose Israeli occupation and genocide. — Read on actionnetwork.org/events/the-new-age-of-genocide-naamod-with-martin-shaw
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