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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

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Political scientist at London School of Economics with interests in (i) genocide, war & peace, & interethnic relations; (ii) Africa, development, & kleptocracy.

Londoner with Guyanese roots

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

As a genocide scholar, I have tried to understand the arguments I have read for why Israel’s conduct in Gaza does not constitute genocide. I struggle. The counter-arguments are not difficult. Here are 8 arguments I've heard and what I think in response. 1/n

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1. This is a war started by Hamas & Israel is justified in using force in self-defense Genocides often occur in wars and states that commit genocide usually justify their actions as defensive against some threat. It would also be fair to say the war did not begin on Oct. 7. 2/n

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Israel has been occupying power since 1967 and Palestinians too have a right in international law to defend themselves, in this case against unlawful occupation. Recognising the right to use force to resist occupation is not the same as condoning the murder of civilians. 3/n

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It also seems improbable, as IDF numbers imply, that the other 30% are ALL combatant men. If civilian men are killed as often as civilian women, then 90% of all those killed could be civilians. This suggests combatants, not civilians are the collateral damage. 5/n

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2. Israel targets Hamas, not civilians. The women & children killed are unintended & unavoidable collateral damage. The UN cites Gaza MoH data that 70% of victims are women & children. This alone suggests that Israel’s differentiation of combatants is problematic. 4/n

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3. The shocking statements suggestive of genocidal intent are made by fringe figures in Israel and the IDF anyway does not heed them In fact, they include statements from the President, the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Defense. 7/n

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8 months

If Israel wanted to minimize civilian casualties, it could at least try to separate women and children and allow them temporary refuge inside Israel whilst it prosecuted its war against Hamas inside Gaza. 6/n

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South Africa also presented video evidence at the ICJ of IDF soldiers dancing and repeating the Prime Minister’s statements and singing ‘there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians’ 8/n

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5. Israel allows in humanitarian supplies to support the civilian population. First, it is very clear Israel initially prevented all aid – food, water, fuel, and medicine - from entering Gaza & relented only after international condemnation. 11/n

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7. Israel has the capability to eliminate easily many more Palestinians if it was truly intent on genocide No state that has committed genocide has ever done so openly. Every single one has tried to hide, deny, or minimize what they are doing while they are doing it. 16/n

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8 months

Could it not rely more on special forces than on aerial bombardment? All of these methods could reduce the civilian death toll. It begs the question of why Israel chooses the approach it has given the massive civilian destruction that results. 19/19

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8 months

No resistance group has not used terrain – jungle, desert, forests, or mountains – to avoid attack. Hamas, confined to Gaza, has nowhere to go except underground in such an urbanized space. It would be suicide to fight openly a massively more powerful army. 10/n

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Second, UN OCHA reports that after 100 days of war 2.2M Gazans are at imminent risk of famine; water is wholly insufficient; 15 of 36 hospitals are partly operational; & basic medicines are unavailable. Why? 12/n

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8 months

Even Germany tried to keep the gas chambers & mass executions from its citizens. Israel could not ‘nuke’ Palestine or kill en masse without triggering even stronger international condemnation. A state intent on genocide must give itself & its allies plausible deniability. 17/n

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8 months

Israel could open or construct more crossings to expedite the inflow of aid if it wanted. It really does seem it is “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction”. 13/n

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4. The scale of civilian destruction is a direct result of Hamas’ use of human shields Israel claims those killed all are human shields; Hamas says they are not. Can anyone say for certain how many of these tragic victims truly are? 9/n

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8 months

Reports then that Gazans do not have enough time to move, cannot access online route maps without electricity, & that Israel has bombed areas it deemed safe, seem to ring true. Israel would have read these reports. Yet nothing changes. The deaths continue at the same rate. 15/n

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6. Israel gives evacuation warnings &has created safe havens for people I find this the most persuasive argument. Yet these warnings and safe havens do not seem to be working. More civilians are being killed in this operation than in any of Israel’s previous Gaza campaigns. 14/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

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8. Israel has no other way to destroy Hamas Are there really no choices? Does Israel have to use so many massively destructive 2 tonne bombs; Does it have to fight this war so quickly – where can Hamas go? Could it not use more targeted drone strikes over unguided bombs? 18/n

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3 years

Thrilled (& relieved) to pin this tweet announcing my book on the Rwandan genocide. It offers a rigorous & comprehensive explanation of how & why the genocide happened and how & why Rwandans participated in it. Cambridge offers the first chapter for FREE!

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I'm still waiting to see if this post incurs the ire of the pro-Israel community & I am dubbed an anti-Semite. If I'm not, it's because public opinion is finally turning as Israel's conduct here draws attention to its other cruel policies in the OPT. It took 24K deaths to do so.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

As a genocide scholar, I have tried to understand the arguments I have read for why Israel’s conduct in Gaza does not constitute genocide. I struggle. The counter-arguments are not difficult. Here are 8 arguments I've heard and what I think in response. 1/n

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#Rwanda #genocide Excited to announce my new book on the Rwandan genocide is finally available in print. It draws on many interviews with Rwandans who killed - as well as those who did not.

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8 months

Fellow scholars, an invitation: Would anyone with relevant expertise be willing to engage in a reasoned, X-based debate on the tragic & ongoing violence in Gaza & Israel? I ask as I was surprised at how much interest a post I made 2 days ago, as a genocide scholar, generated. 1/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

9 months

Israel’s defense at the ICJ is that these appalling statements are by fringe govt figures and do not reflect IDF policy. Yet they include the PM and Defense Minister to whom the IDF are subordinate.

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William Dalrymple

9 months

This is an incredibly important thread and deserves your time and attention. It is a compilation of calls for the erasure, dehumanisation, dispossession, subjugation and ethnic cleansing of the people of Gaza by the highest officials of the State of Israel. This is a government

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@PoliticsIntlLaw Among genocide scholars, the concept of genocide has long since departed from the restrictive 1948 legal definition critiqued for its focus on specific intent, physical destruction, & ascriptive identity groups. But even by the legal definition, the claim is prima facie strong.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

4 years

#Rwanda #genocide Presenting my new book on the Rwandan genocide at University of Antwerp. Tomorrow (Feb. 4th), 12pm GMT. Register for link to join.

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#Rwanda #genocide Was Rwanda's genocide solely the product of elite decisions 'at the top' or was there also popular pressure for violence 'from below'? I suggest both in my new book and in a short video podcast here.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

We organized this forum to create space for the disageement among genocide scholars on the violence in Gaza & Israel. As you will see, they reflect a range of sharply opposing opinions.

@JournalGenocide

Journal of Genocide Research

@JournalGenocide

8 months

Two more pieces have been published in our Gaza forum. More will appear in the coming weeks. This one by Zoe Samudzi: ‘“We are Fighting Nazis”: Genocidal Fashionings of Gaza(ns) After 7 October’

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If you accept, I ask only that we keep the discussion ad rem, not ad hominem. If we could attack the arguments, & not the person, it would be a great example to the rest of the Twitter/X community on this subject. 5/5

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

#Rwanda #genocide 27 years today since the genocide. Did ideologically extreme or racist beliefs distinguish those Rwandans who killed from those who did not? Suprisingly, no. This is one of the many claims about the violence I address in my new book.

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So, if you think you have relevant expertise (e.g. genocide, ICL/IHL, Mideast area studies, political violence), I’d like to ask you to consider using your voice to contribute to public understanding of the violence. Please join me on this thread. 4/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

I wrestled long with the decision to engage publicly and suspect it will have consequences for me, perhaps in unprovable ways, for years to come. Still, I feel an obligation to try to make public discussion between scholars on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict less risky. 3/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

Thread @DalrympleWill As a genocide scholar, I have tried to understand the arguments I have read for why Israel’s conduct in Gaza does not constitute genocide. I struggle. The counter-arguments are not difficult to summon. Here is what I read and what I think in response. 1/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

2 years

News like this helps make all the struggle to get a book out worth it. My thanks to @erinjenee and other committee members for their hard work. And mine was a small tome to read!

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ENMISA

2 years

🏆Our #ENMISA 2021 “Distinguished Book Award” goes to Co-Winner Omar S. McDoom ( @omarmcdoom ) for his book titled “The Path to Genocide in Rwanda” - Congratulations 🎉! Thanks to the award committee members @erinjenne @ahmeterdiozturk and Jennifer Eggert! #ISA2022

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The responses suggested to me there exists some appetite – need even - within the non-specialist general public for expert views on the violence. I realise many of you with expertise may self-censor for fear of the professional repercussions. I understand. 2/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

To start I would like to ask scholars their views on (i) the legality and (ii) the morality of the violence observed on both sides.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

Panel on the research frontier for understanding how and why individuals come to kill in genocides. Authors of three new books compare their findings.

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Kjell Anderson

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3 years

The 3 papers are all for book panels. 1. New Books in Genocide Studies, featuring my book Perpetrating Genocide, Tim Williams' The Complexity of Evil, and Omar McDoom's The Path to Genocide in Rwanda. (I'm really looking forward to our discussion @_tim_williams_ and @omarmcdoom )

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@martinshawx If we accept the conceptual expansion of genocide to include social and not just physical destruction, you would be right Martin to say Israel’s genocidal actions did not begin in 2023.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

9 months

There is a difference between supporting the right of Palestinians to use force to resist occupation & supporting the murder of civilians. The former is lawful; the latter not. Another blow for free speech in the UK.

@ukhomeoffice

Home Office

9 months

Today, we took action to proscribe Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist organisation. The encouragement and promotion of Hamas’ unlawful attacks, and the group’s antisemitic ideology, are appalling. Being a member and inviting support for the group will be a criminal offence.

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9 months

Yes, it was a loss. Sid transcended his Jewish identity to see his common humanity with Palestinians. If only more - on both sides - could do the same, there would be more talking and less killing.

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IsraelismFilm

9 months

‘We Jews Were Not Meant To Be Occupiers - It’s A Shonda’ The late Sid Topol, @jstreetdotorg board member and EP of Israelism, shares his Israelism story Watch Israelism:

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3 years

The International Studies Association has taken an important stand on the threat to academic freedom posed by ill-founded allegations of antisemitism on university campuses. @ssen03 @UofGlasgow @BRISMES

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

#Rwanda #genocide First review of my book is out in African Affairs. The reviewer was careful in characterising my claims and fair in assessing the book’s merits. Neither should be taken for granted in the scholarship on Rwanda. Thanks @thijsbouwknegt

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

2 years

The International Studies Association has found cause again to issue a statement on the threat to academic freedom posed by allegations of antisemitism & anti-Zionism used to deplatform a scholar when due process is not followed. @WAlqaisiya @akbild

ISA Statement on Allegations of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in Vienna, Austria

The Academic Freedom Committee of the International Studies Association expresses concern for the decision taken by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and mumok (the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Founda...

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7 months

The LSE’s MidEast Center invited me in for interview to offer my view on the choices and conduct of the Netanyahu government vis-a-vis Gaza.

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LSE Middle East

7 months

'Whether you call it genocide, a crime against humanity or a war crime, the fact remains that large numbers of people are dying and that should be the focus of any policy response' – @omarmcdoom on the concept of #genocide in relation to #Gaza

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

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Could it rely more on special forces than on aerial bombardment? All of these methods could reduce the civilian death toll. It begs the question of why Israel chooses the approach it has given the massive civilian destruction that results. 19/19

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

2 years

This new article in @AfrAfJournal assesses Rwanda’s remarkable rise post-genocide. Based on interviews with regime insiders and critics, hear their rationales - and rebuttals - for the big strategic choices made and the risks the polarization signifies.

Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of...

ABSTRACT. Both popular perspectives and theoretical characterizations of Rwanda’s remarkable trajectory following the genocide remain polarized more than a

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My view on how Sudan's rival elite networks, competing material interests, and the broken political settlement have led to violence. Sudan: To break the cycle of violence, end the kleptocracy via @AJEnglish

Sudan: To break the cycle of violence, end the kleptocracy

Vested economic interests are fuelling the conflict in Sudan. They must be addressed in the peace-building effort.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

#LSEResearchForTheWorld Always good when your research get a little boost from your own university. Nice article summarizing my findings on why some Rwandans killed but others didn't in the genocide.

Why some killed in Rwanda and others didn't | Research for the World

The Rwandan genocide was driven in part by “ordinary” people as well as those in power, argues LSE’s Omar McDoom in a new book.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

@aravosis Thank you for engaging. I think we should try to be equally skeptical of casualty numbers from both sides. As it is, in previous Gaza campaigns, Israeli (Likud-controlled) and Gazan (Hamas-controlled) numbers have been similar. As to combatant status, you are right it is…

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

Wow. An astonishingly accurate summary of my book in this most recent review in ROAPE. Filip @freyntje went to great lengths to get the argument right. Not sth to be taken for granted for those who write on Rwanda.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

@freyntje Thanks! Endorsements that are reasoned and evidenced should count. :-) But, as genocide scholars know, undeserved - and personal - criticisms are an occupational hazard. The politics and emotions just get in the way of reason & evidence.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

1. Israel has no other way to destroy Hamas Are there really no choices? Does Israel have to use so many massively destructive 2 tonne bombs; Does it have to fight this war so quickly – where can Hamas go? Could it use more targeted drone strikes over unguided bombs? 18/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

4 years

Systematic review finding: foreign aid can and does promote democracy - a little.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

10 years

. @UNUWIDER of interest? @omarmcdoom explains the triggers for Rwanda's violence to #BBCNewsday http://t.co/ioV3azNLx8

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

2 years

#Rwanda #asylum High court decision in and shame on Suella Braverman. Her family benefited from the UK’s generous immigration policy in the 60s. Sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda is simply an immoral way to deal with the issue.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

@ProfDBernstein Thank you for a reasoned response. I did not say Israel has committed genocide. I said the arguments given for why it is not genocide are readily refutable. I think you appreciate the distinction. As to intent, this can be inferred from choices made. Israel’s choices are…

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

#Genocide #Rwanda Presenting my book on the Rwandan genocide today in Oxford, the African Studies Centre. All welcome. Webinar details below for those interested.

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Book Launch: Path to Genocide in Rwanda: Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocractic...

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

7 years

#multiculturalism New research on obstacles to minority integration: culture or disadvantage?

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

4 years

Talking to killers. @INoGSonline . Virtual roundtable with researchers of Rwandan perpetrators. Tonight at 1pm EST.

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10 years

#RwandaGenocide How to predict violence within genocides. Research conducted at @unuwider . http://t.co/H6pcTGaGH3

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

6 talented new APs from very diverse fields will join the LSE's Government department. A record set of acceptances. Welcome all.

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LSE Government

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We're delighted to announce 6 wonderful new hires joining the faculty at @LSEGovernment later this year and in 2022 🎉

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

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Even Germany tried to keep the gas chambers & mass executions from its citizens. Israel could not ‘nuke’ Palestine or kill en masse without even stronger international condemnation. A state intent on genocide must give itself and its supporters plausible deniability. 17/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

Nice line-up of topics and speakers at SOAS. Presenting myself on June 21. See below. All welcome.

@philclark79

Phil Clark

3 years

This term's @soasCCRJ webinar series features @devos_christian on #ICC , Glorieuse Uwizeye on children born of genocidal rape & @omarmcdoom on drivers of the genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda . Co-hosts @CAS_SOAS @Aegis_Trust . All welcome, details here

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

2 years

University autonomy is under attack in Russia, Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, & Sudan. Read our latest statement on what is happening. @isanet Academic Freedom Committee

ISA Statement on Institutional Autonomy in Turkey, Sudan, Hungary, Russia and Venezuela

The Academic Freedom Committee (AFC) of the International Studies Association (ISA) recognizes institutional autonomy, the right of academics to establish institutions of higher learning and to...

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

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@stephenWalt Excellent analysis. I would have added to the list stronger anti-American sentiment will not help the US in its long ‘War on Terror’. Unconditional US support to Israel is recruitment rhetoric for militants. Keen to hear your view on the future of US support for Israel?

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3 years

One of the slickest presentations of an academic book I have ever seen. Worth watching the vid.

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C Schonhardt-Bailey

3 years

Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees via @YouTube Further to the announcement of the book, here is the summary in 90 seconds. With music. With visuals. With drama. Kind of like the book itself.

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@patriarchyends Thanks for a reasoned response. On shelters, assuming it would be possible to build a subterranean facility large enough to hold 2.2M people given the blockade, is it likely Israel would bomb them also and claim Hamas was using them to hide or store weapons? And…

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@AvivaKlompas @Israel @RishiSunak Could you explain the difference between the 1977 Likud party charter that says there will be only “Israeli sovereignty between the Sea and the Jordan” & “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea?” To my mind they seem equivalent. Neither means genocide.

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@freyntje @bertingelaere @IOBUA This is very sad news and entirely unexpected for me. Bert was a terrific researcher and a wonderful colleague. He was far too young to be taken from us. I mourn this loss with a very heavy heart.

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@aravosis Thank you. I did not say the soldiers’ behaviour is proof of genocide. I am saying that those on the ground fighting hear, internalise, and act on what their leaders say.

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@NIODamsterdam A defining event for the field of genocide studies: arguments for decolonizing Holocaust studies; for integrating genocide into the study of political violence; and for re-conceptualizing genocide to cover emerging forms of violence.

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Extremists drive this tragic conflict forward on both sides. Israeli ministers call for permanent relocation of Gazans; Hamas refuses legitimacy of Israeli state. Neither means extermination – rather expulsion – but both read as eliminationist. This is ethnic cleansing & criminal

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

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#Capitol Not a coup or insurrection. More a mob enjoying a moment in the spotlight. But police passivity begs question of double standards (cf BLM response) and, possibily, complicity. Someone must answer.

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#Rwanda20yrs How to predict violence within genocides. Research conducted at @unuwider . http://t.co/H6pcTGaGH3

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

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@zarahsultana @mehdirhasan I think many of the responses Zahra has received here confirm her claim regarding rising Islamophobia. Appalling, ignorant, and shameful reactions. Keep speaking truth to power Zahra.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

2 years

Belatedly for his many victims, but finally some accountability and a shot at justice.

@hrw

Human Rights Watch

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For the first time, a leader will have to answer for serious crimes allegedly committed in Darfur by government forces and allied militias. This trial is a rare, long-awaited chance for justice. #Sudan

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No resistance group that has not used terrain – jungle, desert, forests, mountains – to avoid attack. Hamas, confined to Gaza, has nowhere to go except underground in such an urbanized space. It would be suicide to fight openly a massively more powerful army. 10/n

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1. Israel is targeting Hamas, not civilians. The women & children killed are unintended & unavoidable collateral damage. The UN cites Gaza MoH data that 70% of victims are women & children. This alone suggests that Israel's differentiation of combatants is problematic. 4/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

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Second, UN OCHA reports that after 100 days of war 2.2M Gazans are at imminent risk of famine; water is wholly insufficient; 15 of 36 hospitals are partly operational; & basic medicines are unavailable. Why? 12/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

South Africa also presented video evidence at the ICJ of IDF soldiers dancing and repeating the Prime Minister’s statements and singing ‘there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians’ 8/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

2 years

We have spoken up. The International Studies Association has issued a statement on restrictions on academic mobility in China and the state of academic freedom in the Party-state more generally.

ISA Statement on Academic Freedom and Mobility in the People’s Republic of China

The Academic Freedom Committee of the International Studies Association (ISA) expresses concern for the state of academic freedom in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and wishes to draw particular...

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

1. Israel has the capability to eliminate easily many more Palestinians if it was truly intent on genocide No state that has committed genocide has ever done so openly. Every single one has tried to hide, deny, or minimize what they are doing while they are doing it. 16/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

1 year

Tsnunami in teacup. Minor ethics violation magnified by SB's broad unpopularity. The newsworthy part is the functionary who said NO to a Minister. Some institutional independence. Sunak under pressure to launch ethics inquiry over Braverman speeding row

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No 10 appears to distance itself from home secretary amid growing political storm about possible breach of ministerial code

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

@ProfDBernstein …are deliberate & the consequences known and clear. This is why I believe there is a prima facie strong case to answer.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

1 year

@azizmusa Superbly accurate summary

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

2 years

@miwahman @skyburz @Pol_Geog_Jl @TheAPCG Congratulations, and sounds like good stuff.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

11 months

@AlexLHinton @ConversationUS Excellent explainer Alex! I would only add that the legal claim of genocide is founded on (i) the deliberate deprivation of the necessities of life - water, food, medicine and fuel (ii) the shocking statements of Israeli cabinet ministers as evidence of specific intent.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

1. The shocking statements suggestive of genocidal intent are made by fringe figures in Israel and the IDF anyway does not heed them In fact, they include statements from the President, the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Defense. 7/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

4 years

@koronavilkku Has the sensitivity of the App been changed recently to reflect the arrival of the variant in Finland?

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

1. This is a war, started by Hamas, & Israel is justified in using force in self-defense Genocides often occur in wars and states that commit genocide usually justify their actions as defending against some threat. It would also be fair to say the war did not begin on Oct. 7. 2/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

Five thoughts on what the Ukrainian invasion signifies in the longer term. Views are my own, not the LSE's.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

Academic freedom is a prerequisite for research and teaching. Check out and join academic freedom panels at 2022 ISA, 28 March CT: 9:30am on China, 12:30pm on the digital age, 2:00pm on structural challenges @isanet

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

@patriarchyends No-one could prove or disprove the human shield claim. You believe or disbelieve according to your biases.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

6 years

#Brexit ECJ ruling on unilateral revocation of withdrawal notice has a catch. Revocation only possible if intent is to remain in EU i.e. end withdrawal process. Constitutionally, Parliament can signal intent to remain. But politically, would need 2nd ref. before notice expires.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

1. Israel allows in humanitarian supplies to support the civilian population. First, it is very clear Israel initially prevented all aid – food, water, fuel, and medicine - from entering Gaza & relented only after international condemnation. 11/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

2 years

Please join me. The 3 debates addressed are whether 1. Genocide is the product of elite agency or also popular pressure 2. Mass violence is a rational choice or an emotional response; and 3. Extremism is a consequence and also antecedent of violence.

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LECTURE | On Dec 1st @omarmcdoom ( @LSEnews ) addresses three long-running issues in discussions of genocide. He offers an original perspective using new and existing evidence of the tragic events that took place in Rwanda in 1994. More information:

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

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If Israel wanted to minimize civilian casualties, it could at least try to separate women and children and allow them temporary refuge inside Israel whilst it prosecuted its war against Hamas inside Gaza. 6/n

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

8 months

@ProfDBernstein ...disproportionate must the action be before one questions the credibility & reasonableness of the stated intent? This suggests that, provided Israel simply asserts an intent, it immunizes itself from the charge of genocide.

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

2 years

Only in the UK and Iran do members of the state religion have an automatic right to sit in the legislature and vote on the country's laws. Remove Church of England Bishops From The House Of Lords. Sign petition here. via @UKChange

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Remove Bishops From The House Of Lords

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom

3 years

@dirkmoses @ugur_umit_ungor @thijsbouwknegt @frankvanvree

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