NEW BOOK: The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza – includes chapters on ‘The Gaza Genocide’ and ‘The Structure of Genocide in Palestine”.
Due in October 2025 – order now with discount code AGENDA30, following the link, or if you are in North America, order with the same code from Columbia University Press.
ACADEMIC ARTICLES:
The Genocide that Changed the World, Journal of Genocide Research, September 2025.
Gaza and the Structure of Genocide in Palestine, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 53(2) 416-22, 22 April 2025.
In Defence of the Concept of Genocide, Journal of Perpetrator Research, 7(1) 7-21, 2024. Based on my Holocaust and Genocide Lecture, NIOD, Amsterdam, 17 October 2024: watch the video of the lecture.
Inescapably Genocidal, Journal of Genocide Research, 6 January 2024.
Israel Charny’s Attack on the Journal of Genocide Research and its Authors: A Response (co-authored), Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 10(2) 3-22, 2016.
Conceptualising and Theorising Antisemitism and Racism: The Structural Context of Israel-Palestine, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 14(2) 2015: 149–164.
Palestine and Genocide Revisited, Holy Land Studies, 12(1) 2013, 1-8.
The Question of Genocide in Palestine, 1948: A Debate between Martin Shaw and Omer Bartov, Journal of Genocide Research, 12 (3 & 4) 2010, 243-59.
Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide, Holy Land Studies, 9 (1) 2010.
OP-EDS, VIDEOS, COMMENTARIES:
I comment regularly on Gaza on Twitter and in the media – for my 2025 op-eds see the home page of this blog. Here are my commentaries from 2023-24 and earlier:
Genocide: An Idea for our Times On the 80th anniversary of Raphael Lemkin’s idea. Byline Times 8 November 2024.
My question to Israeli historian Benny Morris in Mehdi Hasan’s Head to Head (video) July 2024.
The International Court of Justice on Gaza: ‘Good, but Not Good Enough’, Byline Times, February 9, 2024
Genocide and Gaza (33 minutes), video of a talk for the unit, Violence, Conflict and Forced Migration, taught by Dan Godshaw, Lecturer in Criminology in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol, 28 February 2024.
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Genocide’ in Gaza, New Lines, 6 November 2023.
Israel, Gaza and the Spectre of Genocide, Byline Times, 15 October 2023.
Why I’m not discussing genocide in Jerusalem. openDemocracy, June 24, 2016.
Boycotting Israel: the situation has changed and I have changed my mind too. openDemocracy, 3 August 2014.
FURTHER JOURNALISM & BLOG PIECES over last 25 years: click HERE.
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