MY LETTER in today's Guardian.
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“In Defence of the Concept of Genocide”: my Amsterdam lecture
This month is the 80th anniversary of Raphael Lemkin's introduction fo the concept of genocide in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. On 17 October, I gave the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture for NIOD in Amsterdam. Criticising those who would abandon Lemkin's concept, I looked at its relevance today in the light of Gaza.… Continue reading “In Defence of the Concept of Genocide”: my Amsterdam lecture
With my CND book at Peter Kennard’s exhibition of political art
Peter's 'Broken Missile' is the frontispiece to my book.
Introductory offer on CND book
Copies of my new book, The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, have arrived at the publishers and I'm waiting for them to reach me. Meanwhile, Agenda Publishing have announced 30 per cent off for paperbacks ordered via their website (in the UK and Europe only, I'm afraid). Use the code EM30 at the checkout.
London launch for my new book, ‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’
BOOK DISCUSSION: ‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ – Martin Shaw in conversation with Kate Hudson – Housmans Bookshop, 12 November — Read on housmans.com/event/book-discussion-the-campaign-for-nuclear-disarmament-martin-shaw-in-conversation-with-kate-hudson/ Or order online from your usual bookseller
“Emotion” and “analytical precision” – unpacking the New Left Review genocide controversy
The latest on my Substack.
New interview on Gaza and genocide
I've done a lengthy interview with Thomas Karat in which I explain my views on Palestine and Israel. I expand on the question I put to Israeli historian Benny Morris in the Mehdi Hasan programme.
Nuclear war, ‘exterminism’ and ‘genocide’
I reflected from my history of the campaign against nuclear weapons on how its campaigning and thinking was largely separated from concerns about "genocide", even in EP Thompson's idea of "exterminism". My latest.
David Lammy’s token move is no answer to genocide – it’s a form of denial
‘You do not respond to genocide with gestures; you do not continue to treat a state that is suspected of committing genocide as an ally; and cancelling a number of export licences does not cancel Britain’s complicity’ - my take in Byline Times
Antinuclear movement book: copies by mid-October
I've now signed off the proofs of my book on the antinuclear movement in Britain, which is now off to the printers. The cover now has a CND symbol added! Copies should be available in mid-October - do pre-order now.
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