Ephraim Nissan, at The Blogs

Mar 7, 2024, 11:40 PM

Middle East siren call: Jews genocide, in pictures

Image from a video released by Fatah (https://www.jns.org/fatah-celebrates-hamass-barbaric-massacre/), glorifying the genocide of the Jews of the western Negev by Hamas on 7 October 2023, and, indeed, calling for more of the same. “Fatah’s Bethlehem Branch posted a video showing four images as a song plays in the background. One image portrays Israelis as a rat being trampled by a boot with the colors of the Palestinian flag on its sole” (ibid.).

In my own academic writings, I have pointed out, time and again, the to and from of how Germany's Herero genocide in Namibia, when a population was pushed into the desert to starve to death, supplied the WWI Ottoman...

Nov 16, 2023, 1:47 AM

The BBC: A reputational liability in historical perspective

The first time I allowed myself to listen to the news BBC Radio 4 in the aftermath of the massacres that took place on the traditionally joyful Jewish festival of Shmini Atzeret in the western Negev (half an hour...

About Me

Dr. Ephraim Nissan has extensive experience as an academic scholar, and as such he has worked in three countries. He has been in London for decades now. He has authored and published more than six hundred publications, in journals or at international conferences, or as chapters in books, and he has also published books he has authored or edited. He also has extensive editorial experience for journals.