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The New Politics Of Territorial Expansion
“Never again” and the “responsibility to protect” now license forcible territorial annexation.
by
Nils Gilman
,
Dirk Moses
,
Zachariah Mampilly
via
Noema
on
May 29, 2025
Trump’s Gaza Plan May Mark the End of the Postwar Order
Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is endorsing it.
by
Dirk Moses
via
Jacobin
on
February 16, 2025
The Pantomime Drama of Victims and Villains Conceals the Real Horrors of War
Innocent, passive, apolitical: after the Holocaust, the standard for ‘true’ victimhood has worked to justify total war.
by
Dirk Moses
via
Aeon
on
May 10, 2021
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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.”
by
Mari Cohen
via
Jewish Currents
on
December 19, 2024
The War in Gaza Has Exposed the Limits of the Word “Genocide”
The term is 80 years old. Everyone is still fighting over its meaning.
by
David Faris
via
Slate
on
December 13, 2023
“Genocide” Is the Wrong Word
We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the UN’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.
by
James Robins
via
The New Republic
on
November 21, 2023
Not Humane, Just Invisible
A counter-narrative to Samuel Moyn’s "Humane": drone warfare and the long history of liberal empire blurring the line between policing and endless war.
by
Priya Satia
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
December 3, 2021
