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Max Pensky
Max Pensky is a professor of philosophy and co-director of the Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) at Binghamton University, State University of New York. His research interests include social and political philosophy; continental philosophy; and philosophy of law and international relations.
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Binghamton University, State University of New York
Co-Director of Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
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What is genocide, and who is committing it now in the Middle East?
Genocide is a term that carries both a narrow legal meaning and a broad political, cultural, and historical resonance.
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UN report documents genocide against Rohingya: What now?
The evidence in the report is compelling, but experts explain there are many barriers to global leaders taking action.
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Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks against Israel have provoked accusations of genocide. The massive scale, complexity, and lethality of the attacks are unprecedented. In The Atlantic, terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman has recently parsed Hamas’s founding covenant, arguing that it documents a long-term plan, and intent, for the destruction of the Jewish people in a way comparable to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”
The Israeli government’s increasingly brutal military response to the attacks have generated similar accusations, often from unsurprising sources. On Oct. 10, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations described Israel’s bombardment of Gaza “nothing less than genocidal.” Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, declared that Israel’s total siege “created conditions where the Zionists are seeking a genocide of all people in Gaza.” More accusations employing the word “genocide” followed from the Turkish Foreign Minister and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
