Books are under attack in the United States. According to PEN America, the latter half of 2023 saw an unprecedented surge of book bans: 4,349 bans across 23 states. More books were banned in those six months that in the previous twelve. Protesting that culture of censorship and suppression, the […]
Yearly Archives: 2024
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The Iraqi Baʿth state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) – a systematic effort to annihilate the Kurdish population — is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only Middle East state crime to be tried under the 1948 UN […]
The fourth and final event in the “Out of the Frame” series hosted by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity. The ongoing conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan have witnessed mass killings of civilians, internal displacement, and the destruction of […]
“Genocide” has become a keyword for our time, deployed by victim groups and their advocates in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. While a powerful cry for help and attention as “the crime of crimes,” do “genocide” allegations perform the work intended by their claimants? And what of patently self-serving […]
How do racial discourses shape the conflict in Israel and Palestine? Whether debating terms like “Indigeneity,” “settler colonialism,” “apartheid,” and “genocide;” racial differences in public opinion in the United States; or the divide between countries in the “Global South” versus the “Global North,” race haunts the conflict like a specter. […]
Jewish mathematician Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg operated in Lublin, headquarters of Aktion Reinhard, the SS operation that murdered 1.7 million Jews in occupied Poland. Masquerading as a Polish aristocrat, the “Countess” persuaded SS officials to release thousands of Poles from Majdanek concentration camp. She secured permission to deliver food and […]