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. […]
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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 […]
The second in the “Out of the Frame” series hosted by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family’s origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]