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What is the point of genocide studies?

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What's the point of genocide studies?" They stayed silent They did not issue a statement They said nothing about Gaza even as South Africa argued before the International Court of Justice There is a glaring double standard International Association of Genocide Scholars the oldest academic association appeared to have nothing to say There are career and funding consequences "if insufficiently supportive of Israel" Those few who have spoken up say "we cannot take our analyses and apply them without fear or favour" "What if this world system is the root cause?" There was a clear intention to annihilate conditions for life of the Palestinian people in Gaza

Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?

A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”
Jewish Currents
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