And yet what Sakowicz was creating—a contemporaneous day-by-day account of the process of genocide as observed by a witness who was neither perpetrator nor victim—was, as the historian Yitzhak ...

ProPublica has revealed USAID and the State Department’s refugees bureau both concluded this spring that Israel had deliberately blocked deliveries of food and medicine into Gaza. But U.S ...

On December 9, 2023, the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention) will mark its 75th anniversary. The Genocide Convention can be praised ...

The last year witnessed an Israeli genocide in Gaza, unprecedented violence in the West Bank, but also legendary expressions of Palestinian sumud, or steadfastness. It is not the enormity of the ...

During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, radio broadcasts played an important role in inciting ordinary citizens to take part in the massacres of their Tutsi, and moderate Hutu, neighbours. Two major radio ...

I don’t understand how. I don’t know how to comprehend this in my head, this mass genocide, the massacre of children, women, elderly, and making us live in tents and crisis that have no end.

As the Hamas-Israel conflict continues, some scholars contend that the narrow legal definition of genocide no longer serves as a useful reference point. Here is why the term carries significant ...

Swedish prosecutors indicted a 52-year-old woman for crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes over accusations of enslaving Yazidi women in Syria between August 2014 and December 2016. The ...

The House of Representatives recognises the great Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 as genocide against the Ukrainian civilian population. The parliamentarians adopted a resolution to this effect on ...

South Africa had asked the court to order Israel to stop military action straight away pending a decision on whether Israel has committed genocide. Israel has vehemently rejected the accusation as ...

Dr. Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. (Photo courtesy of the University of New Mexico) An Israeli scholar specializing in Holocaust and ...

The woman, a 52-year old Swedish citizen identified in the court indictment as Lina Ishaq, also faces charges of genocide and war crimes - or as an accessory to them - between 2014 and 2016 ...