The difficulties of serious debate about Palestine: this short commentary has just appeared in Holy Land Studies (12, 1, 2013, 1-8; below is a draft version). The same issue includes an excellent piece by Farid Abdel-Nour, 'From Critic to Cheerleader: The Clarifying Example of Benny Morris' "Conversion"', the clarification being relevant to all who try to… Continue reading Palestine and Genocide Revisited
Category: Israel / Palestine
Israel and Hamas: momentum of war
My new article on openDemocracy, where I write regularly. The latest war over Gaza leaves unchanged the underlying roots of conflict, even as regional changes are narrowing the potential for a long-term settlement. Israel’s week-long war against Hamas and Gaza was - assuming the ceasefire of 21 November 2012 holds and there is no immediate… Continue reading Israel and Hamas: momentum of war
The Holocaust and genocide: loose talk, bad action
A new post on openDemocracy 21 March 2012 Israel's prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu made a characteristic intervention during his address in Washington to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac ↑ ) on 5 March 2012. In voicing determination to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and thus to reject a situation where Israelis would… Continue reading The Holocaust and genocide: loose talk, bad action
Israel, the spectre of 1948, and genocide scholars (2)
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.… Continue reading Israel, the spectre of 1948, and genocide scholars (2)
Israel, the spectre of 1948, and genocide scholars (1)
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,… Continue reading Israel, the spectre of 1948, and genocide scholars (1)
The USA’s dangerous allies
draft of new contribution to openDemocracy Many on the left think of the United States as a dangerous force in world politics, a view encouraged by the aggressive interventionism of the Bush administration. Yet the juggernaut of US military power usually moves slowly, and after the disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan, probably with some caution.… Continue reading The USA’s dangerous allies
Debate with Omer Bartov on Palestine and genocide
The genocidal character of the expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948 is discussed in the pages of the premier genocide journal, Journal of Genocide Research, in its new issue, where I debate the issue with the historian, Omer Bartov: 'The question of genocide in Palestine, 1948: a debate between Martin Shaw and Omer Bartov', Journal of Genocide Research,… Continue reading Debate with Omer Bartov on Palestine and genocide
The Holocaust, genocide studies and modern politics
A report and commentary on debates at two conferences this summer, involving Omer Bartov, Dirk Moses and others, for openDemocracy.
Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide
Here is a draft of this paper, the final version of which has now been published in Holy Land Studies, 9, 1, May 2010, and presented to the International Network of Genocide Scholars' conference at the University of Sussex on 30 June 2010. Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide.doc
Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide
To appear in Holy Land Studies, 9, 1, May 2010. The text originally published in this post was not the final version, which is now available at https://theorypolitics.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/palestine-in-an-international-historical-perspective-on-genocide-2/
Martin Shaw 