Matt Semel, at The Blogs

Matt Semel

Jul 24, 2014, 3:37 PM

Scholars and historians classify the Holocaust as a distinctly singular event. The genocides in Rwanda, Armenia and South Sudan demonstrate the worst of humanity but are categorically different from the Final Solution, in magnitude, scope and design. Hitler decimated...

Jul 17, 2014, 4:07 PM

Bibi’s Game of Thrones

Four children were dead. Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu spoke to the press and pronounced that “human animals” killed the three Israeli teens. He called for vengeance. He cited Satan. The fourth boy, an Arab, was burned alive. But, no...

About Me

Matt Semel has a PhD in Criminology from the Graduate Center of the City of New York. He also has a law degree and practiced criminal law in New York City for 13 years and was a college professor for 11 years, teaching courses in terrorism, law and criminal justice.