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A PERSONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE ORIGINS AND BEGINNING YEARS OF GENOCIDE STUDIES AND AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIELD TODAY

A Special Legacy Article by Israel W. Charny The following is the complete article and contains materials that have not been included in the edited version published by Genocide Studies and Prevention (GSP) – Volume 17, No. 3, pp. 1-18. The major difference as noted in the journal article (p.16) is that a fuller description

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Putting the October 7 Culprits on Trial

by Steve Adler, November 10, 2023 A Jerusalem Post column, “Legal Affairs by Steve Adler” features an article, “Putting the October 7 Culprits on Trial.”  Adler who is a retired judge of the Labor Court in Israel proposes that the “monstrous acts of sadistic murder, torture, sexual violence, rape, kidnapping and other horrors that go beyond

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Genocidal Weapons

 Haaretz columnist David Stavrou – who has also been presenting to the Genocide Seminar which is conducted by our Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Jerusalem – has published a major new article in Haaretz entitled “And If They Used Israeli Weapons.” Stavrou describes a horrifying raid and genocidal massacre in a village in northern

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Obituary to a Great American Armenian, VARTAN GREGORIAN

Obituary to a Great American Armenian, VARTAN GREGORIAN Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, formerly President of Brown University, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and President of the New York Public Library has passed away at the age of 87. Dr. Gregorian was the recipient of the American Presidential Medal

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Review of “Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide” by well-known genocide scholar, Tessa Hofmann (Germany)

“One is Either for Human Life or Not!” A major part of this review will also be published in the California Courier. Review of Israel Charny’s New Book, Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, Truth versus Politicization of History.  Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021. .by Tessa Hofmann  Review of Israel Charny: Israel’s

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Recommendations of Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide

Endorsements by GREGORY H. STANTON, ARCHBISHOP MOURAN MANOOGIAN -Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, YAIR AURON, SHMUEL REISS MD, HARUT SASSOUNIAN, SAMUEL TOTTEN, TANER AKÇAM, NAOMI CHAZAN, and ROBERT WILLIAM FISK. ☻’Nobel Prize’ GREGORY H. STANTON, Founding President Genocide Watch, Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention, George Mason University Israel Charny has single-handedly produced at least

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News Stories and Reviews of “Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide”

Note: date above has been forced in order to place post in a proper sequence. Israel Charny Looks Back on the Momentous Conference That Almost Wasn’t by Alin Gregorian, Editor, Armenian Spectator-Mirror (Boston), April 20, 2021 https://mirrorspectator.com/2021/04/20/israel-charny-looks-back-on-the-momentous-conference-that-almost-wasnt/ Prof. Israel Charny, a longtime champion of recognition of the Armenian Genocide, is looking back at the uphill

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Channeling Anger and Hate for Protecting Human Life

I am pleased to share with you a new publication, “Channeling Anger and Hate for Protecting Human Life,” which has been published in a book entitled Perspectives on Hate edited by Robert Sternberg, a distinguished psychologist and former president of the American Psychological Association (who in the past was the author of a theory of love

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Still Another Minimization of the Holocaust

You may be interested in seeing a new publication in the peer-reviewed Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism: “The Journal of Genocide Research Featured Still Another Minimization of the Holocaust.” The new article just published analyzes a still more recent major review essay in JGR which is also minimizing any anti-Jewish motivations on the part of the Nazis and attempting

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Turkey joins Nobel ceremony boycott in protest against Handke

Ahlander, Johan; Koleka, Benet; Erkoyun, Ezgi. (December 9, 2019). Turkey joins Nobel ceremony boycott in protest against Handke. Reuters. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1YD1HA (Reuters) – Turkey said on Monday it would join Albania and Kosovo in boycotting the Nobel awards ceremony in protest against 2019 literature prize laureate Peter Handke, who has been criticized for backing late Serbian strongman

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Colin Tatz: A rebel with a cause and a teacher with heart

  Colin Tatz of Sydney, Australia was a dear and esteemed colleague in genocide studies for many years.  He was, for me, a clear thinking, decent, rational, and very constructive thinker and leader.  As  a Jew, I also appreciated and enjoyed with him his loving Jewish identification and fine ethnic humor – in general, he

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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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The State of Israel and the U.N. International Day of Commemoration of Victims of Genocide and of its Prevention – December 9

Includes link to article in Hebrew  by Uriel Levy in Davar Rishon, 25.1.2019, “לא לעמוד מנגד” – Do Not Be a Bystander and a discussion of the new U.S. law, Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act (see also the post on this law on this website). The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem,

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