Jews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet their murder has not been recognized equally. The Jewish experience of genocide has increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts, scholars, educators, curators, and politicians in the postwar years, while the genocide of Europe’s Roma and Sinti remained out […]
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Born in the Bronx or Berlin, Jews of a certain age remember the justificatory slogan for the establishment of Israel, “A land without a people for a people without a land.” Persuasive as this may have been at the time, it spoke and continues to speak today to a settler […]
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, escalating the war it had unleashed in 2014. With an avowed goal of de-Ukrainization, Russia rejects the idea of Ukrainian statehood and has declared genocidal goals in Ukraine. The discussion featured Eugene Finkel, a scholar of genocide and author […]
The story of the past calls for extensive use of archival documents. But, adducing risk to state security, Israeli archives, especially the state archives, block access to key collections that pertain to the state’s history in general and the Palestinian Nakba and ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular. Palestinian researchers who […]
The Bedouin of the Negev desert have long sought legal recognition from the State of Israel. Without legal status, they are denied their basic rights as Israeli citizens: access to public health services, water, electricity, public transportation, is inadequate or unavailable. Rah’ma is one of the few unrecognized villages that […]
Held in the General Assembly Hall on 27 January 2023, the ceremony marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Please read the open letter of which the Center is a signatory.You can read the open letter by following the link.
Finding the Disappeared: The Role of Truth Commissions and Post-Conflict Justice Initiatives in Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico Scholars and human rights activists Ana María Méndez Dardón (Central America Program, Washington Office on Central America), Tatiana Devia (Transitional Justice Program, Corporate Accountability Lab), and Aída Hernández (Center for Research and Advanced […]
With the loss of abortion access as a constitutional right, obstetric care has become a legal labyrinth and cybersecurity for individuals has emerged as a serious concern. Frontline expert Dr Lisa Harris (University of Michigan Medical School) will address the thorny question of how the SCOTUS decision shapes medical practice. […]
Groundbreaking scholars Ethel Brooks, Ioanida Costache, and László Csősz move between past and present and draw upon testimonies and documents as they plumb the history of anti-Roma racist violence, and the erasure of that history even as the violence persists.