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
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
I wrote at length for E-International Relations: https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/X3NyC7XWjcAGK3Zms8f7Ious35?domain=e-ir.info/
I gave a lecture on 'Gaza in a Historical Perspective on Modern Genocide' at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with @naderalihashemi chairing. Netanyahu was with Trump in the White House as I spoke. Watch the full lecture and discussion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=panusxMAGYk
My new article published on openDemocracy. Some additional comments, not in the openDemocracy version, are indicated by italics. Israel’s slaughter in Gaza must make us all pause and ask whether we should rethink our stance on the Palestine conflict. The killing is presented as a regrettable response to Hamas’s provocations, an almost routine police action… Continue reading Boycotting Israel: the situation has changed and I have changed my mind too
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