Monday, October 21, 8:00 p.m. Eastern - Zoom
"Gaza and the Question of Genocide" with Professor Omer Bartov
by Reconstructionists Expanding Our Conversation on Israel/Palestine
Professor Bartov will examine the immediate causes and deeper roots of the current conflict, assess the nature of events in Gaza and the West Bank and the political and ideological dynamics driving them, and attempt to outline possible future scenarios in the region.
Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. His recent books include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), which won the National Jewish Book Award; Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022); and Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023). Bartov has written widely on the current crisis and on his own changing perspectives, most recently in The Guardian: “As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel.” He is currently writing a book tentatively titled “The Broken Promise: A Personal-Political History of Israel and Palestine.”