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Oct 27, 2026, 5:11 PM

Pillay’s Nobel Rests on a Number Nobody Checked

Chris Sidoti, a member of the UN Human Rights Council's commission of inquiry, told a Melbourne audience the panel never verified its 83 percent figure. (Graphic: Mitzpe Institute)

Oslo gave its Peace Prize this month to the woman who chaired the UN panel that accused Israel of genocide, and one of the two men who sat beside her has now said the panel never checked the number...

Oct 21, 2026, 9:01 PM

From Applegate’s Struggle to the Global Misdiagnosis of a Nation

There is a profound, dizzying disorientation that comes with a false medical diagnosis. For years, actress Christina Applegate suffered from baffling, debilitating symptoms—numbness, tingling, loss of balance—while doctors searched for answers. When she was initially told she had multiple...

Oct 19, 2026, 2:05 PM

Nobel Gold Cannot Conceal Pillay’s Genocide Travesty

Nobel peace prize - courtesy of Shutterstock

The Nobel Committee can award Navi Pillay a medal. It cannot award her commission the evidence, credibility or judicial authority its accusation against Israel so conspicuously lacks. As Pillay receives the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, the foundations of her commission’s...

Richard D. Gitlin

Oct 19, 2026, 1:31 AM

Genocide: When Accusation Replaces Evidence

History teaches us that if you repeat something often enough, people may begin to believe it, even when the evidence is missing. I hear this accusation everywhere now: ‘Israel is committing genocide.’ Politicians say it. Organizations repeat it. Commentators pass...

Oct 16, 2026, 12:56 PM

Honoring my relative who defined ‘genocide’ means scrutinizing Navi Pillay’s Israel findings

When I see the word “genocide” in a headline, I read it with a particular sense of responsibility. Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jewish lawyer who coined the term and fought to establish it as a crime under international law,...

Henry Greenspan

Oct 15, 2026, 11:37 PM

Disposable People Studies

Although I’ve been at it for over fifty years, I have never been comfortable with the phrase, “Holocaust Studies” as a description of my field. I am not alone. I know colleagues who avoid the term because of the...

Samuel M. Edelman

Oct 15, 2026, 7:54 PM

The Charge of Genocide Does Not Fit the War in Gaza

The devastation is undeniable, and alleged violations demand investigation. But genocide is a specific legal crime requiring proof of an intent to destroy a protected group—not simply evidence that a war has produced civilian harm. What do Troy Jackson, Robin...

Oct 15, 2026, 6:51 AM

The Inversion of Genocide

How do we learn to live with difference without turning difference into hate? That question runs through my reflections on the Good Society. But what happens when that boundary has already been crossed—when demonisation makes another people’s suffering less visible...

Oct 15, 2026, 2:35 AM

The Echoes of the Shofar: Why the 2020s Are Beginning to Look Dangerously Like the 1920s

I wasn't around in the 1920s to witness what was beginning to happen in Europe. I arrived on the scene a little later—in the spring of 1941—when much of what had been brewing during those earlier years was reaching...

Oct 13, 2026, 12:31 PM

The Battle Over Israel’s Reputation

The accusation that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza has become one of the most consequential claims in international politics. Its supporters argue that the scale of civilian suffering demands urgent action; its critics warn that deploying the term...

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