After seeing NAZA, I wrote this about how its chilling interviews convey the ultramodernity of Israel's genocide--recalling Zygmunt Bauman's classic book on Modernity and the Holocaust. Like the Holocaust, the NAZAcaust is no aberration. It is modern society in its most murderous form. https://martinshawx.substack.com/p/modernity-and-the-nazacaust
Genocide, War and International Humanitarian Law: From Lemkin on the Nazi Genocide to Israel’s Genocide in Gaza: https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqag016
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
New on openDemocracy The International Network of Genocide Scholars (INOGS) is holding a conference in Jerusalem this weekend. The initiative has attracted an attack by Israel Charny in the Jerusalem Post under the lurid heading, ‘Genocide scholars who minimize the Holocaust – and some who are coming to town’. This summarised his article published in… Continue reading Why I’m not discussing genocide in Jerusalem
The Second Edition of my What is Genocide? has just been published by Polity Press. Fully revised, it includes a new chapter with an extended critical assessment of Lemkin, development of the argument on 'structure' and genocide, and improved presentation for teaching purposes. 20% discount and examination copies are available via this link: What is Genocide… Continue reading New edition of What is Genocide?
Daniel Feierstein, Genocide as a Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas. Translated from Spanish (Argentine) by Douglas Andrew Town. Rutgers University Press, 2014. Daniel Feierstein sent me an advance copy of the English translation of Genocidio como Practicio Social, his study of the Nazis and the Argentine military junta as… Continue reading Daniel Feierstein, ‘Reorganising Genocide’ and Argentina (review)
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
