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.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 day ago

    Not now but they did fund Hamas some time ago to undermine the PLO*, it’s a well known fact. Not unlike what is happening with Syria, helping headchoppers take power to justify seizing more Syrian territory with the excuse of “helping minorities" which they later will kill.

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      23 hours ago

      that’s not what the other guy said, he didn’t say “oh back in the day israel indirectly or directly used hamas to undermine other groups” he said “Hamas is supported and funded”