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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33219979

by Caitlin Johnstone Jul 15, 2025

The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.

It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.

In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies named Omer Bartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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    1 day ago

    What do you know of this person? I can only assume you made this up with no knowledge of him, based on what I’m seeing. For example, according to Wikipedia:

    In August 2023, Bartov was one of more than 1,500 U.S., Israeli, Jewish and Palestinian academics and public figures to sign an open letter stating that Israel operates “a regime of apartheid” in the occupied Palestinian territories and calling on U.S. Jewish groups to speak out against the occupation in Palestine.

    Bartov has said that Israel’s 37th government brought “a very radical shift”, adding, “I am a historian of the 20th century and don’t make analogies lightly” before recounting how the movement of fringe politics into the mainstream in Europe led to fascism, and emphasizing: “This is the current moment in Israel. It’s terrifying to see it happening.”

    In January 2024, Bartov said that Israel had repeatedly expressed genocidal intent against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war. By August of that year, having visited Israel again in June, Bartov said it “was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions”. On April 24, 2025, Bartov said: “It’s a misnomer to call it a ‘war’. […] This is an occupation by the IDF designed to take over Gaza. There will, of course, be resistance, but it will be guerrilla resistance.” He also noted the violence had escalated beyond Gaza to include the West Bank.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
      52·
      1 day ago

      I read his article, started taking about oct7 attack. then how he’s a lifelong zionist and served in the IDF.

      and nytines spent the past couple years being pro zionists. this is the first time they call it a genocide. and it’s way too fucking late.

      like an SS officer seeing the tanks coming and suddenly having a change of heart and realising that nazis were the baddies.