BARTOV’S ARTICLE
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.: Omer Bartov, NY Times, July 15, 2025 — A month after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, I believed there was evidence that the Israeli military had committed war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity in its counterattack on Gaza. But contrary to the cries of Israel’s fiercest critics, the evidence did not seem to me to rise to the crime of genocide.
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‘I’m a Genocide Scholar’ … And I’ve Been Prepping My NYT Genocide Case Against Israel for Years: Rachel O’Donoghue, Algemeiner, July 21, 2025
Omer Bartov and the Problems of Brown University: Editorial, Israel Academia Monitor, May 3, 2025
What Went Wrong; Daniel Ben Ami, Radicalism of Fools, Jan. 18, 2025
Respectfully, Professor Bartov: This Is Not Genocide: Seth Eisenberg, Times of Israel, July 15, 2025
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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
‘The New York Times’ Genocide Scholar is No Neutral Observer: Moshe Phillips, JNS, July 21, 2025 — It’s no secret that, over the decades, the editors of The New York Times’ opinion pages have earned every ounce of criticism leveled at them by supporters of Israel—and yet they persist in finding the most extreme writers to showcase. A column published on July 15 may go down as one of the worst hit pieces the Times has published since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
Universities, Professors Now Using Antisemitism as a Way to Bash Israel – Opinion: Moshe Phillips, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 16, 2025 — A British institute that claims to “study antisemitism” is instead turning it into a weapon with which to bash Israel.
Rackoff ’25: Reflections from an anti-Zionist Academic Echo Chamber: Maya Rakoff, Israel Academia Monitor, Mar. 3, 2025 — Last month, I attended the “Non-Zionist Jewish Traditions” conference hosted by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities.
Israel’s Ambassador to Germany Accuses ‘Der Spiegel’ of Abusing Holocaust Memory: Eldad Beck, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 4, 2025 — In a rare open attack, Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor accused leading German weekly Der Spiegel of abusing the memory of the Holocaust and spreading baseless “fairytales” demonizing Israel.
A Town Torn Apart: Glenn C. Altschuler, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 8, 2018 — In 1936, Mendel Reich, president of a Talmud Torah in Buczacz, a small border town in Eastern Galicia, declared that the Jews were “condemned to wait on death row for an execution without better days to come.”