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
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Washington Post article cites me on genocide in the Israel-Hamas war
Israel-Gaza: The Spectre of Genocide
My new article for Byline Times.
Political racism: at the heart of Tory electoral strategy & the coming right-wing realignment (my latest)
‘Rishi Sunak Continues to Use Johnson’s Brexit-Fuelled Political Racism’ – Byline Times — Read on bylinetimes.com/2023/06/14/rishi-sunak-continues-to-use-johnsons-brexit-fuelled-political-racism/
Barcelona summer school course: Ukraine and the Problems of Genocide
Professors, Power & Projection: the Case of Matthew Goodwin
My latest for Byline Times, in which I harness counter-alliteration and C. Wright Mills to get to the heart of the Goodwin project - and the real problem of powerful elites in Britain today.
Russia’s genocidal war in Ukraine
I've written an extensive article on this, with the subtitle 'Radicalisation and Social Destruction", just published in the Journal of Genocide Research Ukraine forum. I intend to return to the argument as the war develops and I welcome feedback.
The IPPR report and the continuing salience of political racism
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
The Tories and a distorted energy market condemn many to a winter without heating
My latest for Byline Times. (For all my articles, see here.)
The Uses of Diversity
As the UK returns to what passes for normality after ten days in which the royal succession has stultified public life, my latest for Byline Times (written just before the Queen died) asks: Why do far-right-leaning, white Conservative prime ministers appoint so many politicians of colour to senior positions?
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