Opinion Genocide Victims as Refugee Dealers
It's hard to believe that the people behind the deal to expel asylum seekers from Israel to Rwanda are the leaders of two peoples who suffered genocide recently
Yair Auron
For 25 years, Professor Auron has been researching Israel’s attitude toward the genocide of other peoples. In November 2014, the Open University will hold an international conference marking the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda.
Opinion Israel, Partner in Genocides
Sending weapons to a government that’s guilty of genocide is very similar to sending weapons to Germany during the Holocaust
Yet Again, Israel Denies the Armenian Genocide
Israel is one of the only democratic countries in the world, if not the only one, to do so, and to support Turkey’s stubborn policy of denial.
The 'Modest' Book That Exposes Israelis to the Holocaust's non-Jewish Victims
An editor of a book about the non-Jewish victims of the Nazis responds to Daniel Blatman’s review.
Israel Must Stop Saying the Azeris Were Victims of Genocide
Identifying with Azerbaijan by saying there was mass murder at Khojaly in 1992 desecrates the memory of the Holocaust.
Breaking the Silence The Poem That Exposed Israeli War Crimes in 1948
A poem published by Natan Alterman during Israel's War of Independence criticizing human-rights abuses was lauded by Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, who even distributed 100,000 copies of it among soldiers; other such testimonies were made to disappear.
Silence and Denial Surround Srebrenica Massacre 20 Years On
In the only genocide to occur in Europe since the Holocaust, more than 8,500 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Serb forces in a UN-declared 'safe area.' Despite the evidence, denial of the atrocity continues.
Genocide Is the Only Word to Describe What Happened in Armenia
Imagine the president of France inviting the heads of the Jewish community on Holocaust Remembrance Day and intentionally refraining from uttering the word ‘Holocaust.’
Would Israel Tolerate Calling the Holocaust a 'Massacre?'
In putting our desire to protect our 'ties' with Turkey and Azerbaijan above our willingness to recognize the Armenian Genocide, we in Israel sacrifice basic principle and integrity.
David and Goliath in the Caucasus
The Armenian-Azerbaijan 'soft war' over the Nagorno-Karabakh region is still claiming lives. A recent visit there provoked questions concerning Azerbaijan's close ties with Israel.
Shimon Peres, Apologize for Israel's Enablement of the Rwandan and Serbian Genocides
It is still not too late to admit theses crimes, that will be remembered forever, were committed in the name of the citizens of Israel.
Serbian-Israeli Relations Flourish, as if the 1990s Never Happened
The speeches during Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Israel this month contained not a word about Serbia's crimes during the 1991-95 civil war in the former Yugoslavia.
Israel Must Not Sell Arms to the Azeris
The sale of weapons to a government committing genocide is like the sale of weapons to Nazi Germany during World War II.
Letter to a Palestinian Reader: Holocaust, Resurrection and Nakba
Unless Israelis recognize the crimes we committed in 1948 and Palestinians recognize the horrors of the Holocaust, there is no chance of reconciliation.
The World Is Silent, and So Are We
20 years after the massacre in Rwanda, the international community sheds a crocodile tear while everyone knows that this genocide could have been prevented easily.