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Martin Shaw

2 months

'The only way we can understand what Israel is doing in an overall sense is not a series of war crimes. It is one big crime and that the name for that is genocide.' My question to Israeli historian Benny Morris - which he didn't answer - in @mehdirhasan 's new @AJHeadtoHead .

Samuel K

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2 months

Watch this genocide expert destroy Israel's lies in less than a minute

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

12 days

The blocking of anyone referring to ‘genocide’ is almost universal in the mainstream British media. As a genocide scholar, I’ve been interviewed/quoted about Gaza by media from all over the world, including the US, but never by any major British outlet.

What the media hides.

@narrative_hole

12 days

Whistleblower exposes BBC for having explicit orders to protect the image of Israel

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

2 months

Solidarity with @FranceskAlbs who is playing such an important role in upholding international law, at a point when the USA has abandoned it and other Western states, like the UK, are just going through the motions.

jeremy scahill

@jeremyscahill

2 months

The U.S. wants UN Special Rapportuer on Palestine @FranceskAlbs removed. Bipartisan group of congresspeople demanded her ouster early this year. Last month, the U.S. ambassador to the UN said Albanese is “not fit” for any UN post. I asked Albanese about this. Her response:

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

10 months

Israel is killing about 15x more civilians per soldier lost than the US did in its dirtiest campaign, in Mosul. This is no ordinary 'risk transfer war' in which civilians are killed for lack of care. As @gideonle says, it can't be 'explained'. Israel is intentionally killing them

Larry Lewis

@LarryLewis_

10 months

14. In Raqqa, the ratio of friendly losses to civilian losses was 1:6; in Mosul it was 1:8. In Gaza, that ratio is currently about 1:130. When considered with the other factors above, this paints an overall picture of a campaign where protecting civilians is not the priority.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

5 months

Israel intends there to be no governing body in Gaza, no administrative structure - just a traumatised population with minimal humanitarian aid from international agencies which are also restricted and subject to attack. Genocidal degradation without end.

Nicola Perugini

@PeruginiNic

5 months

This is the Israeli army Chief of Staff yesterday. Translation: “we do not have a political objective we are bombarding again areas we have already destroyed without destroying the Palestinian resistance.” No military/political victory. It’s massacring for the sake of massacring

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

7 months

Children are being killed, mutilated, starved, losing their parents, in large numbers, as a result of the deliberate Israeli strategy to target Gazan civilians: ‘a war on children’ seems a good summary.

David Hirsh

@DavidHirsh

7 months

BBC Easter message: "This is without a doubt, a war on children." This is without a doubt, antisemitic blood libel. I know, it sounds mad, to accuse the BBC of pushing antisemitic blood libel. It sounds mad because it is mad. Blood libel is respectable and normal again...

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

9 months

On the context of the ICJ ruling, this seems to open up a case against the USA on the grounds of actively contributing to, rather than fulfilling the obligation to prevent, the ongoing genocide,

IMEU

@theIMEU

9 months

BREAKING: Biden has cut off funding to @UNRWA , which provides life-saving aid to 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza every day. The US is collectively punishing Palestinians, who rely on UNRWA to survive, based on Israeli allegations against 0.0004% of UNRWA's staff. Outrageous.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

10 months

Destroying a society is genocide. Forcing people to move is genocide. Genocide is already long under way, not a hypothetical further stage. A fellow genocide scholar’s considered view.

Owen Jones

@owenjonesjourno

10 months

"Ethnic cleansing often deteriorates into genocide because people don't want to move. And so in order to encourage them to move, you kill them." Listen to @bartov_omer , Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

1 year

@shashj An apology for the deliberate mass killing of civilians.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

13 days

Biden knew immediately after October 7 that Israel was about to commit massive war crimes.

Hümeyra Pamuk

@humeyra_pamuk

14 days

SCOOP: I reviewed three sets of internal email exchanges between senior Biden administration officials who were warned just DAYS after Oct. 7 that Israel was risking committing war crimes by ordering more than a million Palestinians in northern Gaza to evacuate. There’s more: 1/X

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

21 days

This is genocide - the deliberate destruction of a society - just as much as if Gazans had all been slaughtered or expelled into the Sinai desert.

Adil Haque

@AdHaque110

21 days

"Two million Palestinians are now crammed into a space the size of the Shanghai International Airport. Existing – not living, but existing – among lakes of sewage, piles of rubbish and mountains of rubble. The only certainty they have is that tomorrow will be worse."

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

19 days

Biden says Israel’s killing of Nasrullah gives ‘a measure of justice’ to his victims. The moral bankruptcy of US policy - opposing international justice, endorsing Israel’s policy of assassination by civilian massacre - could not be clearer. How will Israel’s victims get justice?

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

5 months

I’m proud to have signed this letter as Emeritus Professor of International Relations and Politics - and the first person to teach genocide courses at Sussex a quarter of a century ago. My full support to the students who are taking a stand against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Philip Proudfoot 🇱🇧🇵🇸

@PhilipProudfoot

5 months

Staff, former staff and associates or alumni please sign this letter in support of the camp 👇

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

5 months

Forced displacement is not just an atrocity in itself, it’s a method of genocide, further violating the Gazan population and degrading their already minimal social existence.

Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

As Israel expands its operations in Rafah, the UN says 150,000 Palestinians have now been forcibly displaced to areas unfit for human habitation. Forced displacement not only anticipates atrocity, but is an atrocity in and of itself.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

10 months

I’ve joined over 50 other Holocaust and genocide scholars to warn of genocide in Israel’s war in Gaza. The statement itemises the responsibility of states to call Israel (and Hamas) to account for their actions under the international law of genocide,

Statement of Scholars in Holocaust and Genocide Studies on Mass Violence in Israel and Palestine...

In the following statement, over 55 scholars of the Holocaust, genocide, and mass violence deplore the atrocity crimes against civilians...

contendingmodernities.nd.edu

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

9 months

This intervention seems designed to pre-empt any attempt to use Holocaust Memorial Day to draw attention to the Gaza genocide. Mirvis contrasts it with ‘real’ genocides like Bosnia & Rwanda, obviously unaware that denials like his were widely made in these cases too.

William Crawley

@williamcrawley

9 months

The Chief Rabbi wades into the international debate about whether Israel is guilty of genocide. Op-Ed in today’s Sunday Telegraph:

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

2 months

A powerful essay by ⁦ @bartov_omer ⁩ on his recent visit to Israel, unashamedly using his research on the German army under the Nazis to frame his understanding of the IDF in Gaza.

As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to...

The long read: This summer, one of my lectures was protested by far-right students. Their rhetoric brought to mind some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history – and overlapped with mainstream...

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

7 months

Imagine if international institutions (ICJ, ICC, Security Council) actually took genocide seriously. Israel would be forced to withdraw, no-fly zone, comprehensive sanctions, leaders indicted. The West would disown it. Instead, tiptoeing around while slaughter turns into famine.

Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

7 months

It also took note of Security Council resolution 2728, which "demanded an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan". Taken together, these statements could hint that if Israel does not comply with the Court's orders it will (eventually) order a ceasefire.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

10 months

Chapter and verse on the genocidal famine in Gaza, in an authoritative perspective. Ceasefire is not enough. Only a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza will enable the surviving population to recover. States which support Israel’s presence are complicit.

Gaza’s Famine Warning in Perspective - World Peace Foundation

This essay discusses Gaza in reference to two standard metrics for identifying famine and other degrees of food crisis & to starvation as a war crime.

worldpeacefoundation.org

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

7 months

The UK, like the US, is deeply complicit in the Gaza genocide. Oborne gives chapter and verse.

Peter Oborne

@OborneTweets

7 months

Cameron now faces the very real prospect of going down in history as the British foreign secretary who gave the green light to Israeli genocide in Gaza. My new column for Middle East Eye:

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

4 years

This is important: the operational definition of the idea of ‘running hot’ advocated by leading Tories 3 months ago. It confirms the continuing choice to manage rather than eliminate, which has condemned us to economically debilitating uncertainty.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

22 days

How can you be analytically precise if you haven’t read the genocide literature? Lemkin already characterised the intention to ‘cripple’ a society as genocide in 1944. Even the Convention doesn’t equate it with physical extermination. /1

Jessica Whyte

@j_e_s_s_whyte

22 days

So New Left Review can’t agree to call what Israel is doing in Gaza a genocide because the language is not ‘analytically precise’ as Israeli military and political leaders recognise they lack the capacity to kill 8 million people. A total analytical muddle on display here!

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

5 months

This thread by @ProfPaulPoast asks what's wrong with the word "genocide". I ask the opposite question: What's right with it? Why is it useful, indeed essential, & why are other concepts insufficient, in analysing armed conflict, especially in cases like Gaza & Ukraine? [THREAD]

Paul Poast

@ProfPaulPoast

5 months

What's wrong with the word "genocide"? [THREAD]

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

9 months

The IDF’s ‘precautionary’ measures are generally murderous because they assume that anyone who doesn’t move is either Hamas or a willing human shield, and therefore can be targeted

Naks Bilal

@NaksBilal

9 months

"Evacuate westwards immediately via sea road because the 'idf' will destroy the whole area. You have been warned." Even the precautionary measures they take are genocidal.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

5 months

That’s correct. As @dirkmoses argues, the problem is that perpetrators see their targets as a future threat and aim for ‘permanent security’. For Israel, that’s all Palestinians, even children. And crippling their society works, as well as mass murder.

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

5 months

I think a lot of resistance to calling Gaza a genocide comes from people who say Israel is not killing people for sport but rather to eliminate a perceived threat. Problem is every single genocide in history was to eliminate a threat as perceived by the people carrying it out

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

9 months

In fact re-colonisation would be a new stage of the genocide: the destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed followed by the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor, as Raphael Lemkin described it in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (1944).

Alonso Gurmendi

@Alonso_GD

9 months

This is an event where senior members of a government that is being accused of committing a genocide are openly planning to commit war crimes

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

9 months

I’m reading that S Africa should have charged Israel with crimes against humanity, not genocide, because the latter is ‘difficult to prove’. But that’s mainly because international courts have opted for narrow interpretations. And it misses the point: if it looks like a genocide,

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

29 days

Abstentions of the UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, Sweden, Australia etc. underline the West’s general failure to uphold international law on Palestine, although France and Spain were in support. Sad to see Ukraine abstaining - dependence on US blocking anti-occupation consistency.

Adil Haque

@AdHaque110

29 days

The UN General Assembly resolution welcoming the ICJ's advisory opinion, demanding Israel's compliance, and calling on all States to cooperate in its implementation is adopted. 124 in favor 14 against 43 abstain Applause.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

6 months

The idea that 90 per cent civilian casualties is normal in war only shows how far ideas of war have departed from any normative framework, and that Israeli propagandists are comparing their campaign to the worst excesses - and even then coming off badly.

Alonso Gurmendi

@Alonso_GD

7 months

I don't think it's nonsense, but I do think it does not prove its point. If the argument is that Israel is protecting civilians, then the 2 central arguments made here would be insufficient under international humanitarian law. Some thoughts below🧵

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

6 months

Good to see my colleague @StavrianakisA making a compelling case that UK military supplies to Israel matter, and should be stopped.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

7 months

“If the UK government were to decide not to allow those to go, then the Israeli war on the Palestinians would grind to a halt.” Anna Stavrianakis International Relations Professor at Sussex says the UK supplies 15% of components for every Israeli F35 fighter jet. #Newsnight

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

3 months

Labour expected to drop UK challenge to ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant

Labour expected to drop challenge to ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant

Exclusive: UK government appears unlikely to go ahead with legal bid, while Keir Starmer has spoken with Israeli PM over Gaza ceasefire

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

5 months

Raphael Lemkin explained the relationship between war crimes and genocide in 1933: '“Taken separately acts of extermination against ethnic, religious or social collectivities whatever the motive (political, religious, etc.); for example massacres, pogroms, actions undertaken ...

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

10 months

Very powerful indictment by @gideonle of Israel’s kidnapping of Palestinians and holding them as hostages.

Owen Jones

@owenjonesjourno

10 months

Israel is "kidnapping" its own hostages - and their conditions may be worse than Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Where is the outrage? This is the damning verdict of the unbelievably courageous Israeli journalist @gideonle - a man who personifies moral clarity.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

5 years

@Gabriel_Pogrund @StevePeers Big mistake. Will alienate Remainers while Leavers will go for real thing, i.e. Tories

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

2 years

@BethRigby @BBCNews @GaryLineker Out with Tim Davie and Richard Sharp after the damage they’ve done to the BBC and public broadcasting.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

9 months

then most people can probably see that it is one. The power of genocide as an idea does not depend on narrow legal definitions. And genocide can be coherently defined, in a sociological understanding, in a way which gets over the obfuscation that lawyers have created.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

3 months

Genocide is a deliberate attempt to destroy a nation or other group: this is what Russia has been doing in Ukraine, as Israel is in Gaza. They are both, in different ways, genocidal wars.

Alonso Gurmendi

@Alonso_GD

3 months

We should not set a high bar for genocide, as it is much more common than the ICJ’s standards would suggest. Russia targets civilians, kidnaps children, and says Ukraine does not really exist. There is a legit case for genocide in Ukraine /1

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

4 months

This antisemitic trope (Jews have no attachment to where they live in Europe) is of course reproduced in Israeli ideas that Palestinians are just Arabs with no attachment to their land or to Palestine, who could live in any Arab country.

Alonso Gurmendi

@Alonso_GD

4 months

“[I]t is no doubt true that in large parts of Europe their [i.e. Jewish people’s] loyalty to the State in which they dwell is (to put it mildly) feeble compared with their loyalty to their religion and their race”. So touching!

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

8 months

The USA, UK and France, as permanent members of the Security Council, have a particular responsibility to ensure that the court’s order to prevent genocide in Gaza is fully complied with. Failure to do that is complicity.

Daniel Machover

@d_machover

8 months

Any veto of a resolution at the UN Security Council implementing @CIJ_ICJ ’s Order of 26.01.24 in South Africa v Israel #GenocideConvention case would be a violation of the #GenocideConvention - #StateResponsibility #StopGazaGenocideNOW

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

19 days

I agree. The ICC operates in a difficult political context vis-a-vis Israel, and the Prosecutor doesn’t have the support of a single major Western state for what he’s doing - while the US, Germany and the former UK government have actively tried to stop him.

Alonso Gurmendi

@Alonso_GD

19 days

I find this unfair. The reason the requests were made public is the acknowledgment that there are in effect several bad faith actors lurking around. Imo the Prosecutor thought it was best to force these actors into light rather than allow them the protection of the shadows

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

4 months

Worse than not condemning other racism, Sunak actively instigated it (eg over small boats, Rwanda) and promoted people like Braverman and Anderson to push more overt racist views on behalf of the Tories.

Hardeep Matharu

@Hardeep_Matharu

4 months

Sunak rightly condemned being labelled a “P*ki”. That he didn’t use his time as PM to condemn other instances of racism, against other minorities, who don’t have his privileges, for politically expedient reasons, is one of his biggest failings in office.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

9 months

Stopping the Gaza genocide after the International Court of Justice: my analysis for ⁦ @BylineTimes ⁩

The International Court of Justice on Gaza: 'Good, but Not Good Enough'

The compromise ruling from the ICJ in the Hague could slow the violence against Gaza's citizens, but catastrophe still looms

bylinetimes.com

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

6 months

From a historical point of view, the idea of a 1992-5 Bosnian genocide is the only coherent approach. The idea that genocide was only committed at Srebrenica in 1995 is a result of the flawed - but politically convenient - judgement of the International Court of Justice.

Jasmin Mujanović

@JasminMuj

6 months

Srebrenica was a genocide but it was also only the final expression of a state-sponsored & directed program by the Milosevic regime & its Bosnian Serb proxies in the period btw 1992 and 1995, the appropriate term for which is the Bosnian Genocide or the genocide in Bosnia.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

2 months

All credit to Omer Bartov. But some of us were saying this in October. It was clear in October - long before Rafah - that Israel was set on destroying Gaza. Plus

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

2 months

The two greatest living authorities on genocide studies have now changed their minds to argue Israel is indeed committing genocide: Omer Bartov and Aryeh Neier

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

9 months

It is well understood that Holocaust Remembrance Day is a day for reasserting our determination that genocides shall end, as well as commemorating the Holocaust. What could be more important to say this year than that Israel must stop its genocide in Gaza?

Labour suspends Kate Osamor over Gaza comments in Holocaust message

Party investigating MP for Edmonton after she said Gaza should be remembered as genocide on memorial day

www.theguardian.com

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@martinshawx

1 month

It’s not just Cameron - Lammy is still sitting on the legal advice, which must be more critical than the complacent ‘policy paper’ published to back his Commons statement

David Cameron sat on advice that there was breach of law in Gaza, officials say

The former foreign secretary is said to have been advised on the risk of UK complicity

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

2 months

When genocide expertise gets co-opted *for* genocide: one-time genocide expert @PowerUSAID can only recognise that these terrible killings as something Israel should do more to prevent, not as part of a total assault on Gazan society that the US should be forcing Israel to stop.

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

@FranceskAlbs

2 months

While the US Admin shamefully justifies the #genocide in Gaza, it’s disturbing when that untenable justification comes (without evidence) from a key figure in U.S. humanitarian policy. In expressing sorrow for "Palestinian civilian casualties in another [IOF] strike on a school

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@martinshawx

8 months

When you put this together with Truss’s antics in the US, it’s very clear how far right the Tories have gone - no consequences for either of them, all sanctioned by the party leadership, and no public protest even from the few remaining ‘moderates’.

Sam Freedman

@Samfr

8 months

This is pure unabashed racism. It has somehow become an acceptable thing for Tory MPs to do with zero consequences.

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@martinshawx

6 months

The report that Biden is allowing Netanyahu to make a major attack on Rafah as a price of limiting Israel’s response to Iran amounts to permission for genocide. The US - and any state that goes along with this - will need to be brought to justice.

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@martinshawx

6 months

Solidarity with @bartov_omer and Raz Segal, Israeli scholars of genocide, who talked at the UPenn encampment in support of Gaza. I have written to the president and provost urging them to respect and not disband this peaceful protest.

Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב

@bartov_omer

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With Raz Segal at the UPenn encampment on April 26. Warm and open conversation about the perils of antisemitism and of its current weaponization.

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@martinshawx

5 months

In the light of the gravity of the ICC’s charges, laid by a prosecutor who is a British KC - supported by the advice of several other eminent British lawyers - Sunak, Cameron & the UK government must immediately offer their full support against Israeli attempts to discredit him.

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@martinshawx

10 months

A new stage of the genocide. We need not just a ceasefire but a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

Nour Naim| نُور

@NourNaim88

10 months

Israel is demolishing what remains of the houses, so it can't be restored. This is a full-swing plan to destroy all houses in the north of #Gaza so that displaced people who were told to go to south TEMPORARILY can't return; this is same scenario as what happened in 1948 & after.

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@martinshawx

2 months

Channel 4 News: in the West Bank, ‘three million live under *illegal* Israeli occupation’. A small shift, but good to hear it said.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

3 years

New cover for my book from @agendapub , which will be out at the end of March. I've just sent back the final proofs, so no more updating, whatever the new twists and turns in the Brexit/Tory/immigration sagas!

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

3 years

Tantalisingly close ... copies of my book are in the publishers' office and I'm expecting mine today. Time to say a bit more about what Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath aims to do. I outline my Brexit interpretation before turning to theoretical issues. Longish🧵

Agenda Publishing

@agendapub

3 years

Just arrived: POLITICAL RACISM Brexit and its Aftermath by @martinshawx "Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how Brexit came to pass should read this book and take its argument seriously." - @ProfTimBale

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

10 months

My article initiating a forum by @JournalGenocide on how the Holocaust and Genocide fields responded to the Hamas’ massacres and the Israeli destruction of Gaza.

Journal of Genocide Research

@JournalGenocide

10 months

We have initiated a forum on the Gaza situation. Over the next month or so, short articles on the crisis it represents for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will appear here in free access. The first is by ⁦ @martinshawx ⁩ “Inescapably Genocidal”

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@martinshawx

9 months

More than this, in the context of the ongoing genocide, by undermining one of the most important agencies that is protecting the vulnerable population, the UK government is increasing its already significant complicity.

Chris Doyle

@Doylech

9 months

UNRWA have 13,000 staff working at 350 installations in Gaza serving 1.7 million Palestinian refugees. Currently it is sheltering 1 million IDPs. It sacked 12 staff members based on allegations. How can such a large agency operating in a war zone, in an area under Isrseli

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@martinshawx

5 years

@StewartWood One of Labour’s biggest failures was not to make the case for European citizenship and freedom of movement. The reluctance to challenge anti-immigration politics is a core weakness behind all of this.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

4 years

@mrjamesob My friend, whose father died in a care home after a Covid patient was brought in, is seeking a judicial review of the Government's policies towards care homes. Please retweet ... and support this crowdfunder!

Help me hold the government to account for Covid-19 care home deaths

My father was one of the thousands who died in a care home during this pandemic. I am launching this action to hold the government to account for not protecting elderly people in care homes.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

4 years

@paulmasonnews Come off it, Paul. RLB has spent 4 years with this stuff. She should have spotted the trap in Peake’s false accusation against Israel. It confirms what was obvious to many that she is a poor standard bearer for the Labour left. Not a hill to die on.

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2 months

I've just watched this excellent interview by @owenjonesjourno with @bartov_omer . We agree on much but I cannot accept his idea that genocide was only a danger in October, and was not fully apparent until May (Rafah).

Israeli Holocaust Scholar: Why Gaza Is Genocide - w/. Prof. Omer...

Prof. Omer Bartov is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on genocide. This is a devastating interview - one which explains why now he's changed his view, ...

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

2 years

@LukeTryl @Samfr @TalkTV It certainly is a reflection on the candidates.

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@martinshawx

8 months

This is the US crediting IDF propaganda about warnings etc. But the facts suggest otherwise: Israel’s war is qualitatively more murderous than any recent US campaign, because Israel regards the Palestinian civilian population as an enemy.

Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

8 months

This is properly extraordinary: the White House spokesperson John Kirby is literally saying the IDF is more mindful of civilian lives than the American military. The IDF, who've been killing an average of 170 women and children daily, everyday, for 4 straight months. A military

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Airdrops are a sign that genocide, compounded by Israel’s campaign to block international aid on the ground, is at an advanced stage. Airdrops offer only limited mitigation. The ICG & UNSC should demand a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, to allow aid to flow.

Jeremy Konyndyk

@JeremyKonyndyk

8 months

Correct. Airdrops are massively expensive and low-volume. Only used in areas that are besieged (e.g. Sinjar mountain, Berlin 1948) or cut off by natural disasters. The fact that they need be considered is a major policy failure.

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I just came from a recording of @mehdirhasan ’s Head to Head in which he interviewed Israeli historian Benny Morris. It will be interesting to see how the programme comes out, but Morris repeatedly contradicted his own ideas, offering weak justifications for Israel’s current acts.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

6 months

From a historical point of view this is completely correct: genocide has been a regular feature of conflict throughout modernity, sadly continuing in the 21st century.

Alonso Gurmendi

@Alonso_GD

6 months

Genocide is not a “once in a generation” crime. There are genocides going on all over the world right now. Ireland is right that the law on genocide needs to catch up to this reality

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@martinshawx

3 years

@AdamJKucharski I don’t see why mask wearing in indoor public spaces isn’t under C rather than B.

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@martinshawx

9 months

The pressure is ratcheting up in the UK. Both the government and the Labour opposition will have to decide if they are going to stick with this utterly inhuman policy which threatens even more lives - and is clearly contrary to international law, as the ICJ ruling underlines.

MCB

@MuslimCouncil

9 months

🚨STATEMENT | MCB Urges Government to Reverse UNRWA Funding Cut Amid Humanitarian Crisis “At a time when Gaza “has become a place of death and despair” and where 90 percent of Gazans are displaced with more than one in four are starving..." Read full:

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@martinshawx

8 months

We tend to think of genocide in terms of killing and cultural destruction, but theft of goods and property is also a big part of it. Why don’t Western media report on this side of the Israeli ravaging of Gaza?

Nimer Sultany

@NimerSultany

8 months

This looting is reminiscent of the lawless looting of movable Palestinian property in 1948. Palestinian jurist Henry Cattan wrote in 1988 that in “the case of movables, there was an orgy of looting which is reminiscent of days before the advent of civilization.” 1/7

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1 year

@wombat37 @MattSingh_ 10 to the power of Heinz, they could have said.

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@martinshawx

4 months

An utterly compelling indictment by South Africa. When will the UN Security Council act on this submission, and will US, UK and France facilitate action?

Nimer Sultany

@NimerSultany

4 months

On 29 May South Africa invoked in the UNSC, art. 94 of UN Charter in light of Israel's defiance of @CIJ_ICJ . It distributed a public dossier to UNSC members demonstrating Israel's genocidal intent and incitement to genocide. I have now read the 120-page submission. A thread:

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which we will call by the name ‘barbarity’ [later renamed 'genocide']; considered together … they should constitute offences against the law of nations by reason of their common feature which is to endanger both the existence of the collectivity concerned ... .

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@martinshawx

5 months

In my view this is what Israel’s genocide is about: destroying / preventing re-emergence of a functioning society in Gaza, reducing the population to a life of misery and chaos, with no capacity for action.

Nicola Perugini

@PeruginiNic

5 months

This chaos is the tool of colonial regimes that cannot win militarily nor politically. It’s colonial violence in its terminal status.

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@martinshawx

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Editors in the British liberal press seem to believe that because people like Howard Jacobson and Ephraim Mirvis have a certain standing, their genocide denial represents a legitimate point of view which should be given ample space. They would never publish apologies for Hamas.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

6 months

The term ‘genocide’ can harder be banned from the discussion of Gaza when the International Court of Justice has instructed Israel to comply with the provisions of the Genocide Convention and many lawyers and genocide scholars (including me) believe that Israel is committing it.

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

6 months

This makes extremely grim reading. The terms 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' may conceivably be open to debate, but the term "Occupied Territory" simply reflects the legal status of Gaza and the West Bank in International Law. @nytimes is siding with extremists like Ben Gvir &

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@martinshawx

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Nor, it seems, has @NewLeftReview read the debates about the Gaza genocide published eg by @JournalGenocide . You can’t theorise a new genocide with a theoretical tradition that has ignored the fundamentals. / end

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

2 months

A step forward. But the government must have legal advice, and that should cover genocide. Providing *any* arms to a state suspected of committing genocide should be out of the question.

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

@FCDOGovUK

2 months

Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy gives an update on arms export licences to Israel, following the completion of the government’s review.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

4 months

The emotional power of the word genocide is real but it does not prevent the idea being used coherently, as @IanDunt suggests. I and many other scholars of genocide have given cogent reasons for applying it to Israel’s campaign in Gaza.

Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

4 months

New Origin Story, on Genocide. What is its legal definition? Can it be applied to Israeli actions in Gaza? How is it different to ethnic cleansing, or crimes against humanity? All your questions answered.

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@martinshawx

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to ruin the economic existence of the members of a collectivity, etc.”, and also “all sorts of brutalities”, are acts which are “punishable in the respective codes”. However, “[t]aken as a whole, all the acts of this character constitute an offence against the law of nations ...

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

1 year

@MarinaHyde For someone who chooses her words carefully, ‘hellish humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza’ seems euphemistic after ‘the monstrosity of Hamas’s attack’. The crisis isn’t just unfolding: it’s being *done* to Gazans by Netanyahu and the Israeli state. Can’t you say this?

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@martinshawx

4 years

@krishgm @Sir_David_King @globalhlthtwit @devisridhar My friend, whose father died in a care home after a Covid patient was brought in, is seeking a judicial review of the Government's policies towards care homes. Please retweet ... and support this crowdfunder!

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

2 years

‘Putting an end to freedom of movement. The end.’ It is absolutely clear here that six years on, anti-immigration politics remains the ultimate driver of Brexit. #PoliticalRacism

Mark Harper

@Mark_J_Harper

2 years

No. The UK voted to leave the EU. That meant leaving the Single Market and putting an end to freedom of movement. The end. Yes, there are issues with the Protocol, but @trussliz , @BrandonLewis & @ConorBurnsUK are working to deal with those issues.

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@martinshawx

9 months

@probsnotspam @howserob Even if Hamas committed genocide, legally that is no defence for Israel to commit genocide.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

6 months

A third Israeli authority on genocide, Amos Goldberg, confirms that the state is committing genocide in Gaza, as I and many other international scholars of genocide have argued.

Hassina Mechaï

@HassinaMechai

6 months

Le papier d'Amos Goldberg, publié d'abord en hébreu sur l'excellent média @mekomit , a été traduit en anglais. Après Raz Segal et Omer Bartov, un autre historien israélien avertit et alerte sur le risque génocidaire accru à Gaza.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

8 months

A very nicely argued piece by @Alonso_GD , demolishing the egregious special pleading of pro-Israeli lawyers. I particularly liked the idea that Israel, from the point of view of international law, = Somaliland at best, Rhodesia at worst.

Opinio Juris

@opiniojuris

8 months

Israel Does Not Have a Sovereign Claim to the West Bank: A Response to IJL’s Legal Opinion, by @Alonso_GD

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@martinshawx

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@FranceskAlbs The policy has “transformed an entire national group and its inhabited space into a destroyable target, revealing an eliminationist conduct of hostilities”. From Israel’s pattern of conduct,“the requisite genocidal intent is the only reasonable inference to be drawn”. /12

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@martinshawx

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And this is why nothing else but ‘cease and withdraw’ will do. (And it is not only Israel which has abused this: the whole Western system has followed.)

Nimer Sultany

@NimerSultany

5 months

Ní Ghrálaigh: ICJ reluctance to date to order Israel explicitly to suspend its military operation has cynically been used as a cover for its conduct.

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The most thorough analysis of the Gaza genocide so far, by @FranceskAlbs , including how Israel twists IHL to its ends, with strong detailed recommendations to states.

Nimer Sultany

@NimerSultany

7 months

A very important and detailed report on Israel's commitment of genocide in Gaza by @FranceskAlbs the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Here are the highlights of the report:

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

2 years

I've received my Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Network of Genocide Scholars @INoGSonline . The letter I was expecting, but not its physical embodiment!

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@martinshawx

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When geopolitics meets genocide: Hezbollah helped Bosnians resist the Serbians, but also aided Assad in massacring Syrians. The inverse of the West’s Ukraine/Gaza hypocrisy.

Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura

@Rrrrnessa

19 days

During the Bosnian Genocide, when there was an arms embargo placed on Bosnia, it was Hezbollah with the help of Turkey that helped to smuggle weapons into Bosnia so we would not be entirely defenceless while the 4th greatest military force in Europe at the time was massacring us.

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@martinshawx

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Well that’s the ‘don’t compare Israel to Nazi Germany’ argument out of the window.

Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו

@netanyahu

6 months

Anti-Semitism on campuses in the United States is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. The world cannot stand idly by.

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@martinshawx

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I don’t agree. Apartheid is essentially a discriminatory, racist system of rule over oppressed groups; genocide is a mode of destruction of those groups. Related, but an important analytical distinction.

Alonso Gurmendi

@Alonso_GD

21 days

My radical position on genocide is essentially that Racial Segregation is Apartheid and Apartheid is Genocide. Reactionary and racist forces have, for decades, atomised accountability for the same kind of eliminationist crime by inventing more ways to describe the same thing

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@martinshawx

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

5 months

Distinguishing feature of Israel’s case is its simultaneous, undifferentiated campaign against Hamas *and* Gazan society. This enables Israel to hide its genocidal intention within its war. As @FranceskAlbs shows, it systematically distorts IHL in order to target civilians. /11

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

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Israel’s postcode genocide: directing civilians to ‘safe’ areas, then bombing them. As @PeruginiNic says, a necropolitical appropriation of humanitarianism.

Luigi Daniele

@luigidaniele10

10 months

Harrowing analysis by @PeruginiNic on 'safe zones' as zones of more effective extermination.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

6 years

This was David Davis 2 years ago: ‘UK hasn’t given up on keeping European Medicines Agency’. Now 900 jobs have gone. How many more are you prepared to sacrifice, Brexiteers?

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

2 years

Definitely one for those tempted to rehabilitate Theresa May after what’s happened under her successors. Well done ⁦ @JacquiMckenzie6 ⁩

Windrush victim granted right to remain in UK after 10-year battle

Roy Harrison slept in bin shed and lost partner and business after being charged with crime he says he didn’t commit

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

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Adil is right: Eiland’s statements go to the heart of the genocide case against Israel. And everything they have since done bears out the most serious possible interpretation of them.

Adil Haque

@AdHaque110

25 days

Eiland features prominently in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. "We will say it's not an end, it's a means" pretty much sums up Israel's defense.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

9 months

The CEO of @IndexCensorship should resign. To claim to be defending journalists by showing solidarity with Israel, when it is killing journalists, seemingly deliberately, on a daily basis. What an abrogation of Index’s mission.

Aaron Winter

@aaronzwinter

9 months

Absolutely appalled. This is the CEO of @IndexCensorship and representatives of the @UKLabour defending genocide, the breaking of international law, the denial of human rights, and the killing of civilians - and, notably in the case of Index, journalists. Shameful and complicit.

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Martin Shaw

@martinshawx

7 months

New insights into ‘intelligent’ genocide: this targeting only makes sense if an overall decision had been made to go for large-scale civilian killing and the destruction of the society, in line with the openly genocidal ideology of Israel’s leaders.

‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets

Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants

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