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
We are pleased to welcome a new center for research of genocide in Israel. Ariel University in Israel has established a Center for the Study and Research of Genocide under the direction of Hilly Moodrick-Even Khan, a senior lecturer of public international law in the Department of Economics and Business Administration in the University. In
Increasingly anguished and angry posts by many genocide watchers are being published these days about the ominous threat of a major genocide by starvation and embargo of the Armenian population in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabach). The following are two such posts by the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, the first by Israel W. Charny
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
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
On April 24, 2023, President Joe Biden issued his annual statement in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. This is his statement in full: Today, we pause to remember the lives lost during the Meds Yeghern—the Armenian genocide— and renew our pledge to never forget. On April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested Armenian intellectuals and community
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
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
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.
What can we in Israel can do to stop what we believe to be a slow and steady march toward appeasement with Iran. Professor Elihu Richter, MD published the following article in the Jerusalem Post and gave permission for its reproduction: Throughout my youth, I retained an obsession with the history of World War II and the
In a moving story in the Forward, released by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), the late Elie Wiesel’s son, Elisha, published a moving statement of shame about US participation in the Olympics in China. “Most of the world didn’t seem to know, or care, that the host country is hosting a pageant of ‘peace and
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
Thank you Ofer Aderet and Haaretz for your meaningful article on May 3, 2021, “How Israel Quashed Efforts to Recognize the Armenian Genocide.” The article definitely succeeds in painting the picture of government – in this case Israel’s Foreign Ministry – lying blatantly, manipulating, invading academic freedom, putting out fake news and more. In this
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
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
Ed. Note: Because of the Corona pandemic, many of the activities of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Jerusalem were necessarily postponed. We particularly regret that our website did not join in a more timely fashion in reporting the wonderful, history-making news of recognition of the Armenian Genocide – and so overwhelmingly – by
The new Dallas (Texas) Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, which opened in September 2019, includes a “Genocide Gallery.” The museum was designed by Edward Jacobs and Michael Berenbaum (Berenbaum Jacobs Associates). Jacobs is a gifted creative designer who lives in Jerusalem and is partnered with Berenbaum who is widely known and respected for his having
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
http://efxinospontos.gr/genoktonia/5773-declaration-of-the-international-conference-on-the-crime-of-genocide DECLARATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE 6 – 8 December 2019, Athens, Greece Submitted to the International Community for the «International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime December 9th, 2019 Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen of the
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
On September 19, 2019, I posted on the IAGS listserv excerpts from an article by Daniella Peled, who is identified as “Managing Editor of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting,” in Haaretz English Edition on August 16, 2019. At the same time I reported that we were unable to recover the Haaretz article from
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
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
NAASR joins with the Armenian and scholarly communities in marking the death of genocide scholar Dr. Vahakn Dadrian on August 2 at the age of 93. Dr. Dadrian was known all over the world as a pioneer in genocide and comparative genocide studies and in particular for his voluminous writings on the Armenian Genocide. Vahakn
Mr. Erdogan has carried out a purge of Turkish society, punishing his perceived enemies. He has closed 189 media outlets and jailed some 319 journalists. Turkey is ranked 157th out of 180 countries in the Reporters without Borders 2019 index of press freedom. All told, 96,885 people have been arrested, 6,021 academics have been dismissed
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
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
By Israel W. Charny Once and For All for History: Repeatedly, there are articles that report or suggest that the milestone First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in 1982 never took place at all or, alternatively, it is reported that the conference deteriorated severely and just about evaporated. Thus, the California Courier (June
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
Excerpted from Asbarez, April 9, 2019. New Armenian Genocide Resolution Locks-In Official Recognition, Rejects Turkey’s Denial, Encourages Public Education. Representatives Schiff and Bilirakis joined by over 70 U.S. House Colleagues in Launching Bipartisan Resolution WASHINGTON—On the eve of the Capitol Hill Armenian Genocide Observance, Congressmen Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) were joined by more
“A groundbreaking forensic report tracks Azerbaijan’s destruction of 89 medieval churches, 5,480 intricate cross-stones, and 22,700 tombstones,” is the subtitle of an incredible article by Simon Maghakyan and Sarah Pickman, published in the Hyperallergic Magazine last week. The article is titled: “A Regime Conceals its Erasure of Indigenous Armenian Culture.” In April 2011, when the
A report of a remarkable ceremony at Auschwitz in March 2019 tells of Israeli and Polish students standing side by side reading out the names of their relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. As is widely known, the Polish government in recent years has gone to an extreme
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
by Robert Fisk, Independent (London) Holocaust expert Israel Charny’s new book makes uncomfortable reading, as he asks us to examine ‘a truth we haven’t faced fully enough’ September 25, 2018 – Confronted on a warm, soft Jerusalem evening by one of Israel’s venerable Holocaust scholars – and a psychologist to boot – a visitor to
Lynne Tracy, Ambassadorial nominee to Armenia, confirms “the mass killings that ended 1.5 million lives,” but will not use the big G-word and say the profanity “Genocide.” In a forceful editorial, “U.S. Ambassador to Armenian Should Call the Armenian Genocide a Genocide,” Harut Sassounian, publisher of the California Courier, reproduces the amazing dialogue of denial
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.
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
Excerpts from article on June 28, 2019 in Haaretz in response to Poland’s law forbidding reference to Polish participation in the Holocaust. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave Poland a real treasure in return recognition of Poland’s narrative. The joint declaration, which (for good reason) the two leaders read in English rather than in their voters’ languages, made
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
Fisk, Robert (15 February 2018). In the cases of two separate holocausts, Israel and Poland find it difficult to acknowledge the facts of history. London Independent. Reprinted with permission of the author. While Poland has decided to outlaw any claims that their countrymen participated in the extermination of the Jews, Israel continues to ignore the
Sassounian, Harut (March 1, 2018). Pres. Erdogan, a Menace to the World, Should be Stopped Before It’s Too Late. California Courier. http://www.thecaliforniacourier.com/pres-erdogan-a-menace-to-the-world-should-be-stopped-before-its-too-late/ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become a major danger to his own nation as well as many others. His actions and statements in recent years should seriously worry his neighbors and the entire
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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
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
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
NEWS RELEASE by the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem A new world organization by the name of R 2 L -RIGHT TO LIFE has been proposed by the Genocide Recognition Network in Athens. The Network represents three ethnic organizations of peoples, each of whom has suffered genocide in its history, the Pan-Pontian
By Harut Sassounian on April 12, 2016 in http://armenianweekly.com/2016/04/12/sassounian-charny/ In last week’s large-scale attack on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh), the Azeri military killed and injured dozens of Armenian soldiers and civilians, using sophisticated weapons purchased from Israel and Russia for billions of dollars. The Armenian government and Armenians worldwide accused both Israel and Russia of responsibility for the innocent Armenian lives
אברהם בורג Haaretz Hebrew Edition May 20, 2016 Review of Auron, Yair. The Banality of Compassion: On the Rescuing of Jewish Children in the Circassian Muslim Village in 1942. Published in Tel Aviv. Riesling, 2016. (Hebrew) ספרו של יאיר אורון עוסק בסיפור לא ידוע ונוגע ללב על הכפר הצ׳רקסי־מוסלמי בסלניי שבקווקז, שהתגייס להציל ילדים יהודים יתומים