So much in life is down to serendipity, not least my career in journalism and my latest book, Genocide: Personal Stories, Big Questions. But part of serendipity is also knowing when to seize the opportunity. I fell into journalism when an editor ...
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Abstract: What is genocide? It’s a word bandied about these days, especially in the wake of the Israel-Gaza catastrophe, which has galvanised the world. Genocide has a specific meaning, and only the courts can decide, regardless of the intense pa...
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This year, we should remember Benjamin Berell Ferencz who led the Nuremberg prosecution of two dozen SS commanders, and his legacy: Law, not war. It’s beyond belief that in the present day, genocide — a term coined by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin...
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When the plane carrying Juvenal Habyarimana, the president of Rwanda, crashed on the evening of 6 April, 1994, all hell was unleashed, a hell that had simmered for decades. This year, on April 6-7th, the world will remember the 30 years that have...
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I was on the panel for the first session of this conference held in Amsterdam on 26 January 2024. At the session entitled 'Understanding the Context of the Last Yazidi Genocide, I was joined by: Nayef Sabri, Executive President of Sunrise NGO ...
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“Who are the Israelis today?” “What do they want?” These are the questions that Isabel Kershner has tackled in her book, The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s battle for its inner soul (Scribe UK, £25), which is published tomorrow. Her book appears...
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MANTRAYA.ORG The war in Ukraine and the atrocities committed there, with accompanying claims of genocide and Nazism, have made remembrance of the Holocaust more relevant than ever. We are confronted by perhaps the most serious challenge to the in...
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NEWSWEEK.COM My visit earlier this month to the site of the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, in northern Germany, was nothing less than surreal. At this very place during the final months of World War II, over 50,000 prisoners, most of ...
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THEARTICLE.COM When a five-year-old child was chained and left outside in a courtyard to die by her ISIS captor, her enslaved mother never thought she would see justice done. Six years later, on October 25th, 2021, Jennifer Wenisch, a 30-year old...
Continue readingWhen a five-year-old child was chained and left outside in a courtyard to die by her ISIS captor, her enslaved mother never thought she would see justice done. Six years later, on October 25th, 2021, Jennifer Wenisch, a 30-year old German convert ...
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