Israel W. Charny

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Feb 2, 2024, 7:01 PM

Gaza Fight is Humanly and Legally Just but Deserves Ceasefire If Hostages Freed

A British sociologist-political scientist, has published a scathing article in the Journal of Genocide Research (JGR) accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. The article, entitled ”Inevitably Genocidal,” is even pointed in the direction of accusing Israel for instigating and welcoming...

Oct 31, 2021, 9:33 PM

A shameful Knesset vote to help evade, deny and hide the truth

Memorial for the Massacre in Kafr Kassem of 1956 in the center of Kafr Kassem

Failure to pass a bill to memorialize the Kafr Qasim massacre allows Jewish Israelis to persist in believing they are uniquely exempt from humanity’s darkest impulses

Jul 11, 2021, 12:29 AM

Family of Genocides Represents a Universal Sickness of Mankind

The following interview is reprinted with permission from the website of the Gariwo organization (Garden of the Righteous Worldwide) in Italy, “The Family of Genocides Represents a Universal Sickness of Mankind.” A Conversation with Professor Israel Charny by Gariwo's...

Jun 25, 2021, 4:33 PM

Recognition of the Armenian genocide is a major moral crisis for Jews and Israel

Do you know that there are many publications in Hebrew which refer to the Armenian genocide as “Hashoa HaArmenit” or the Armenian shoah? This is because “shoah” intrinsically means extensive or cataclysmic destruction. The word became so identified with...

Jun 27, 2016, 1:25 AM

A truly Jewish view of the Holocaust

Those who insist the Shoah is unique fail their moral duty to study the urgent lessons of other genocides

Apr 27, 2016, 12:32 PM

Would Israel sell a used drone to a Hitler?

Ashamed at the government's arming of Azerbaijan and its failure to acknowledge the Armenian genocide

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About Me

Prof. Israel W. Charny, who lives in Moshav Shoresh outside of Jerusalem, is the director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide and author of the just published "Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, Truth versus Politicization of History," available from the publisher, Academic Studies Press (Boston) or Eurospan Bookstore in London.