Genocide
A Blood-Red Moon Over Gaza
From nights spent beneath buzzing drones to days searching for medicine and giving Eid gifts to children in displacement camps, a young Palestinian recounts how the war on Gaza has reshaped every aspect of life.
Palestine’s Baseball Dreams Survive
Mustafa Tafesh, a 21-year-old player for Gaza’s Palestine National Baseball Team, was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Despite such losses, the young team continues to compete internationally, carrying the dreams of Mustafa and the hope of a free Palestine.
Israeli Liberals Grapple With the G-Word
For nearly two years, support for Israel’s war on Gaza was nearly unanimous among Jewish citizens, with blanket rejection of accusations that the army was committing war crimes. But the images of starving children have forced some liberals to grapple with the reality.
The Dam of Gaza Genocide Denial Has Broken
The dam of Gaza genocide denial has well and truly broken. While Israel’s supporters in Western capitals and media outlets still reject the charge of genocide, several prominent publications are coming off the fence. Yet a conspiracy of helplessness still prevails.
Srebrenica, 30 Years Later: The Battle for Memory in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Three decades on from the Srebrenica massacre, historical revisionism is rife in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Denialism, once a fringe phenomenon, is now deeply embedded in the country’s political fabric and a battle over memory is intensifying.
Historicide in Gaza
Roman pots and Phoenician jewelry may be more glamorous than filing cabinets full of administrative papers, but the latter record the basic facts needed to understand a society. In Gaza, Israel has now destroyed these archives — the culmination of a long process curtailing the possibilities of Palestinian history.
By Rejecting Evidence of Genocide in Gaza, the US Is Following a Familiar Pattern
The administrations of both Joe Biden and now Donald Trump have vociferously denounced a growing international legal consensus that Israel has been violating the Genocide Convention. This follows a decades-long pattern of the U.S. government denying, downplaying and rationalizing genocide and related crimes against humanity by American allies.