Category Archives: Genocidal Events and Processes

How does a person become a bloodthirsty and murderous Hamas member?

HAARETZ | Opinions / November 3, 2023 by Nimrod Aloni I doubt there is a single Israeli, Jew or Arab, who does not ask himself these days the distressing question of how someone can become a bloodthirsty and murderous Hamas member. How does a human being consciously and with great enthusiasm go on a monstrous

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Israel’s Reactions to the Disaster in Karabakh (Artsakh)

–  Scheindlin, Dahlia (September 29, 2023). Nagorno-Karabakh’s parallels to Palestinian Nakba are haunting (cover page) (continued on page 5 with a new headline: Israel has some soul searching to do over Armenians).  Haaretz English Edition. “All Jews should reckon with the fact that Israel has abandoned even a pretense of solidarity with Armenians due to

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This Kosher Certificate for Azerbaijan Stinks

A group of 50 rabbis from the Rabbinical Center of Europe recently publicized a letter criticizing Armenian leaders for their use of “Holocaust terminology” to describe the current humanitarian crisis faced by the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, inflicted upon them by Azerbaijan. “Expressions such as ‘ghetto,’ ‘genocide,’ ‘Holocaust,’ and others are (…) inappropriate to be part of

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Azeri Massacre of Polish and Jewish Civilians in 1944

With the renewed attention to the threat of possible genocide of the Armenian population in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabach) these days, new attention has been focused on past historical events, among them a massacre of Jewish Poles by the Azeris during the Holocaust. –Ed. Vartanian, Varouj (August 24, 2023). The Massacre of Jews by the Azeri Legion

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Dr. Taner Akçam Presents New Findings on the First Decision to Commit the Armenian Genocide

Reprinted with permission from Hye Sharzhoom (Fresno State University, California). Derkalousdian, Careen (May 2023). Dr. Taner Akçam Presents New Findings on the First Decision to Commit the Armenian Genocide  Hye Sharzhoom. https://hyesharzhoom.com/dr-taner-akcam-presents-new-findings-on-the-first-decision-to-commit-the-armenian-genocide/ On Friday, March 3, 2023, Dr. Taner Akçam, director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program at The UCLA Promise Institute, presented his new findings

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Der Matossian explores genocide denialism in the 21st century

Gayman, Deann (April 10, 2023). Der Matossian explores genocide denialism in the 21st century. Reprinted from The California Courier. In the 21st century, where information — and disinformation — is shared at warp speed, genocide denialism has spread just as rapidly. Bedross Der Matossian, a historian of the Armenian Genocide and professor of history at

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How to Cover Up a Massacre

The world does not seem to need very much advice on  how to cover up massacres.  People are good at creating masks of indifference, unknowing, denial and distortion of evidence without needing much training. A thoughtful and extensive review of a documentary on the catastrophe for the Arab people in the course of Israel’s War

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Ukraine! A Terribly Unjust War, A Height of Brutality, and Definitely Genocidal

This website is devoted to a certain segment of news about genocide and genocide studies in the world and is not intended as a steady source of news information about all current events.  However, it is too inappropriate for us to continue without taking the strongest note about the ongoing cruel and brutal genocidal campaign

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A Powerful Statement about Myanmar’s Genocide and more

The following is a report and analysis by Haaretz reporter, David Stavrou, who resides in Sweden, and writes for the paper both in Hebrew and in English. His statement not only reports facts but evokes emotions about the horrors of genocide;  conveys so clearly the widespread occurrences of many genocides in our unhuman human world; brings

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Jews, Israelis must protect human life

Charny, Israel W. (January 24, 2022). Holocaust Remembrance Day: Jews, Israelis must protect human life.  Jerusalem Post. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-694438. Republished in the California Courier, February 3, 2022 Our Jewish/Israeli people need new Moses-leadership courageously devoted to decency and the protection of human life in continuation of the finest values of Jewish religion and our basic tradition.

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Call for Israel to Boycott “Beijing’s Olympic ‘Genocide Games'”

The forthcoming Beijing winter olympics are being boycotted by a growing series of nations, today including Australia, Britain, Canada, and Japan.  The boycott is intended to express a profound protest of Chinese persecution and genocide of the Uyghur people. In Israel, Haaretz has published an editorial page column by Rushan Abbas and Sami Steigmann calling on

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Haaretz Editor and Haaretz Columnist, Gideon Levy, Do Not Expect a Meaningful Response to the New Information about Extensive Genocidal Massacres in the War of Independence

See the Haaretz editorial (December 12, 2021).  Allow the archives to speak.  Haaretz English Edition. On Haaretz website the title of the editorial was changed as follows: Editorial | Israel’s ‘Most Moral Army in the World’ Can’t Keep Running Away From Its Past.  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/israel-s-most-moral-army-in-the-world-can-t-keep-running-away-from-its-past-1.10458062 “Prime Minister and Defense Minister David Ben-Gurion described the actions as

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Major Revelations of a Wide Array of Genocidal Massacres by Israel of Palestinians in the War of Independence Will Now Force a Reevaluation of the History of the Israeli Policy of “Purity of Arms”

A Jewish historian, Adam Raz, has published in Haaretz a major revelation, “Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew: Testimonies continue to pile up, documents are revealed, and gradually a broader picture emerges of the acts of murder committed by Israeli troops during the War of Independence.  Minutes

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Harut Sassounian: Exposing Fake News by Azerbajain

From our Editor: Sadly, news of fake news is an important aspect of tracking contemporary reality.  Moreover, given that the war events between Azerbaijan and the Armenian community in Nagorno-Karabach represent at least symbolically a kind of continuation of the denied Turkish genocide of the Armenians, such fake news becomes part of our continuing study of

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How Israel Quashed Efforts to Recognize the Armenian Genocide – to Please Turkey

by Ofer Aderet |  Haaretz English Edition | May 2, 2021 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-israel-quashed-efforts-to-acknowledge-the-armenian-genocide-1.9766390?lts=1620128020482 Decades before the U.S. president formally recognized the horrors of 1915, Israel’s Foreign Ministry sought to foil an academic conference on the subject, fearing reprisal from Turkey. ‘We continue to act to reduce and diminish the Armenian issue to the extent of our ability by

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An Open Letter regarding the Fighting in Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh)

Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University The following represents the personal views of a group of Israeli scholars of Caucasian and associated studies from different institutions of higher learning, and does not reflect the positions of the Hebrew University nor its Armenian Studies Program. We the undersigned write to express our deep concern with the

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Greece Holds a Remarkable Conference Honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Pontian Genocide and Devoted to Memory and Prevention of All Genocides of All Peoples

by Israel W. Charny An excellent conference has been held in Athens, Greece, December 6-8, entitled “International Conference on the Crime of Genocide.” The conference, which was sponsored by the Pan-Pontian organization of Greece which sports a remarkable 450 or so branches in Greece and around the world, was dedicated on the one hand to

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U.S. House of Representatives Votes Overwhelmingly to Recognize the Armenian Genocide

  Overwhelming Bipartisan Passage of Armenian Genocide Resolution Reflects the Best of America Rouben Adalian October 29, 2019 http://bit.ly/2q2MeTY WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Armenian Genocide resolution, H.Res.296, was adopted today by an overwhelming favorable bipartisan vote of 405 to 11 in the U.S. House of Representatives, reported the Armenian Assembly of America. “The passage of

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Haaretz Book Review Magazine Interviews Yair Auron

Estricher, Noa (September 9, 2019). Genocide: Five Books on Genocide.  Haaretz Book Review (Hebrew). An interview of Yair Auron in Hebrew with reference to five books on genocide in Hebrew: Franz Werfel, 40 Days of Musa Dag; Ora Achimeier, Araratim; Ambassador Morgenthau’s Diary, Israel Charny, Genocide -“And You Shall Destroy the Evil Inside of You”: We

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Some Orthodox Jews Protest Israel’s Arms Exports to Regimes That Commit Genocide

Haaretz English Edition has published an account of a 40-year old orthodox mother of six children who regularly confronts Israeli officials about the immorality of arms sales. Esther Merchavy defiantly asked the former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, “Why does Israel send arms to a country known for its human rights abuses against the Rohingya. Merchavy

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Azerbaijan Destroys a Major Armenian Cultural Monument that was to be Considered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Djulfa is a site in Azerbaijan which boasted the world’s largest collection of exquisitely carved medieval cross-stones as remnants of the areas once-thriving community of Armenian Christians.  The site had stood for centuries.  In December 2005, Azeri soldiers armed with sledgehammers, dump trucks and cranes destroyed the site, pounding the medieval headstones into rubble and

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Stages of Denial of Genocide

In a lecture at Fresno State University in California, Dr. Taner Akcam, holder of the chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University, presented a summary of the stages of genocide as identified by Professor Michel-Rolph Trouillot in Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History.[1] People in power silence or delete history in

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Why Sam Totten Risks His Life to Truck Food to People in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

by Joe Levine Retrieved from Teacher’s College at Columbia University. https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2019/january/driven/ The Nuba Betwixt, Between and Mostly Ignored Sudan, Africa’s third-largest nation, won independence from Great Britain in 1956, but has been the scene of two subsequent civil wars between the primarily Arabic, Islamic north and the black African and Christian south. Though located in

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Memorable! When the World Jewish Congress Called on the U.S. in 1944 to Bomb Auschwitz and the War Department Refused

Would you believe this quotation from the War Department Reply?: “There has been considerable opinion to the effect that such an effort, even if practicable, might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans.” WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS August 9, 1944 Hon. John J. McCloy Under Secretary of War War Department Washington, D.C. My dear Mr.

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Tribute to Samuel Totten: A Genocide Scholar’s Pioneering Activism

Hightower, Lara Jo (April 14, 2019). Samuel Totten – Words led to action. Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette,   Retrieved from https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2019/apr/14/samuel-totten-20190414/ Professor Samuel Totten is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. We are proud to reprint the following tribute to him. On the wall outside internationally known genocide scholar Sam Totten’s

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ELIE WIESEL GENOCIDE AND ATROCITIES PREVENTION ACT SIGNED INTO LAW

On January 14, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act, a ground-breaking genocide prevention law, overwhelmingly adopted by the Senate and House, which codifies earlier measures including those implemented by the Obama Administration, and puts in place a set of clear policies and processes to prevent new atrocities. The

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DISHONORABLE QUOTES — IN DENIAL OF EVIL AND GENOCIDE

ONLY VICTIMS OF THE GAS CHAMBERS CAN GIVE PROOF OF THE GAS CHAMBERS Lyotard [French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist] used the example of Auschwitz and the revisionist historian Faurisson’s demands for proof of the Holocaust to show how the differend operates as a double bind (a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is

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U.N. International Days of Commemoration – All Victims of All Genocides and International Holocaust Day

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF COMMEMORATION AND DIGNITY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE AND OF THE PREVENTION OF THIS CRIME In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly established 9 December as the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.

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Editorial Statement on recognition in Israel of the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF COMMEMORATION OF VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE AND OF ITS PREVENTION

December 9 is a day proclaimed by the United Nations as a memorial to all the victims of genocide of all peoples: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF COMMEMORATION OF VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE AND OF ITS PREVENTION. December 9 is the day that in 1945 the United Nations passed the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of

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Editorial: What Yad Vashem Doesn’t Understand and Doesn’t Present

The Armenian studies program and the Henry Madden Library at Fresno State University, California together with the Memorial de la Shoah of Paris are exhibiting “Genocides of the Twentieth Century.” The exhibition was designed, created and distributed by the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris – curators Georges ben Soussan, Joel Kotek, and Yves Ternon.

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USC Shoah Foundation Acquires Testimonies from Armenian Genocide Survivors

Published in the California Courier (March 15, 2018). The USC Shoah Foundation announced the receipt of one of the largest collections of testimonies from survivors of the Armenian Genocide. The testimonies were recorded over several decades beginning in the 1970’s by Richard Hovannisian, a leading scholar on the genocide and the son of a genocide

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Campaign to end Israeli arms exports to rogue regimes gets Knesset push: Event co-organized by lawmakers from left-wing Meretz and right-wing Likud

by Judy Maltz | Dec. 26, 2017, Haaretz English Edition https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-campaign-to-end-israeli-arms-exports-to-rogue-regimes-gets-knesset-push-1.5629731 Prompted by growing evidence of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, a diverse group of Israelis from across political and religious spectra are putting increased pressure on the government to end arms exports to rogue regimes. On Tuesday, they were out in full force at a

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Israel Sells Arms to Countries Committing Genocide

A Major Critique: ​​Israel Sells Arms to Countries Committing Genocide Prof. Yair Auron, Associate Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, has  published courageously in Israel’s most influential newspaper, Haaretz -both in the Hebrew and  English editions- ​a powerful critique of Israel’s arm sales to countries engaged or known to be threatening ​genocide. The critique

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“The Holocaust, Rebirth and the Nakba” by Yair Auron (English and Hebrew editions)

Auron, Yair (in press 2017). The Holocaust, Rebirth and the Nakba: Memory and Contemporary Israeli-Arab Relations. Landham, MD: Lexington Press. [Translated from an earlier edition in Hebrew]. אורון, יאיר (2016). הבנאליות של החמלה: על הצלת ילידים יהודים בכפר הצ’ירקסי-מוסלמי בסלניי שבקווקז ב-1942.  תל אביב: רסלינג.

Publication of Worksheet for Describing and Categorizing a Genocidal Event

Charny, Israel W. (July 19, 2016).  Worksheet for Describing and Categorizing a Genocidal Event: A New Tool for Assembling More Objective Data and Classifying Events of Mass Killing. Social Sciences, 5(3), 31. For the pdf version, click here. For the pdf of the Worksheet Chart for Describing and Categorizing a Genocidal Event, click here.

New Books on Rescuers by Yair Auron

About the Circassians/Muslims אורון, יאיר (2016). הבנאליות של החמלה: על הצלת ילידים יהודים בכפר הצ’ירקסי-מוסלמי בסלניי שבקווקז ב-1942.  תל אביב: רסלינג. About Charles Aznavour’s Family אורון, יאיר (2016) (מצילימ (צדיקים) ולוחמים: משפחת אזנבור ו “המודעה האדומה” בפריס הכבושה על-ידי הצבא הנאצי [Rescuers (Righteous) and Warriors: The Aznavour Family and the “Red Poster” in Occupied Paris by

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“The Genocide Contagion: How We Commit and Confront Holocaust and Genocide” by IW Charny

NEW BOOK BY ISRAEL W. CHARNY:  Charny, Israel W. (2016). The Genocide Contagion: How: We Commit & Confront Genocide — “a book for learning about ourselves BEFORE!” The book has been adopted as a textbook at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. The instructor writes: The text is highly informative. Chapters 1, 2, 3 and

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Steven Leonard Jacobs Publications and Lecture including on Lemkin

1) “Lemkin on Three Genocides: Comparing His Writings on the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides” in George N. Shirinian, ed., Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017), 253-273. 2) “We Charge Genocide: A Historical Petition All but Forgotten and Unknown” in Scott W. Murray, ed.,

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NIGHT by Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was a co-founder of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem together with Israel W. Charny and the late Shamai Davidson, M.D. Newly Unearthed Version of Elie Wiesel’s Seminal Work Is a Scathing Indictment of God, Jewish World  In Wiesel’s uncensored Hebrew ‘Night’ manuscript, unveiled here for the first time, the

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