Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza? (Jewish Currents, 2024-12-19)

https://jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide-studies-survive-a-genocide-in-gaza
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h/t https://mastodon.scot/@alisonphipps/113882665073669391

“Immediately after October 7th, 2023, … some major institutions of Holocaust and genocide studies determined that their mission required them to speak out.”

“… On October 13th, … the historian Raz Segal, director of the program of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, wrote in a widely shared article in this magazine, ‘A Textbook Case of Genocide,’…”

“And yet, amid this ever-worsening assault, many of the scholars and institutions that had issued or signed statements condemning Hamas after October 7th stayed silent… Little changed even after Amnesty International published a landmark report … in December 2024. For Nimer Sultany [SOAS] …, this silence pointed to a glaring double standard…”

#SilenceIsComplicity #AcademicResponsibility
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