Category Archives: Israel Sale of Arms

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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Israel’s Massive Supply of Sophisticated Weapons to Azerbaijan

With great sadness and anger, the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide is reprinting the following editorial by Harut Sassounian in the California Courier.  The editorial has since been distributed also in mailings by Prof. Michael Stone of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier, March 9, 2023 Israel’s Massive Supply

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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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A New Non-Profit in Israel Aims to Gain Public Support to Demand a Moral Standard for All Israeli Arms Sales

A new initiative has been launched in Israel to create a public movement that will demand of the government full information about Israeli arms sales – which are today not public knowledge, and most of all will stand for a requirement that arms sales will need to be reviewed as to their ethical consequences before

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New Book: Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide

by Israel W. Charny When the Turkish government demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide at Israel’s First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit. This book follows the author’s gutsy campaign against his government and his quest

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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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Israel Should Rethink Its Relationship with Azerbaijan

The following article was written by Alex Galitsky and published in the Jerusalem Post on July 21, 2020. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/azerbaijan-is-not-a-true-friend-of-israel-635729 Azerbaijan, a close ally of Turkey and fellow denier of the Armenian Genocide, has actively sought the eradication of the region’s indigenous Armenian inhabitants and traces of their millennia-old civilization. Azerbaijan’s burgeoning relationship with Israel has

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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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Jewish Professor Requests Information From Israeli Gov’t on Armenian Genocide

by Harut Sassounian California Courier, January 11, 2018. Prominent Israeli scholar Yair Auron filed an official request with Israel’s Foreign Ministry on December 21, 2017 asking for all internal documents on agreements and commitments undertaken by the State of Israel with Turkey and Azerbaijan not to recognize the Armenian Genocide. The request sent by Auron’s

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Yair Auron Asks What In the World Perpetrators of War Crimes and Genocide are Doing as Visitors to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem?

“How do we act with regard to genocide committed by other nations?  We deny the Armenian Genocide.  The State of Israel (and not private arms dealers) sold arms to the government of Rwanda at the time they were committing the most rapid genocide in history.  Israeli government authorities prevent scrutiny of the documents that reveal

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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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