Monday, November 11, 12:00 - 1:30 PM EST - in person at CCAS Boardroom (ICC 141), Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Gaza and the Question of Genocide with Omer Bartov
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, and Georgetown University Qatar, is hosting Dr. Omer Bartov, Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, for a talk titled “Gaza and the Question of Genocide” on November 11th at Noon in the CCAS Boardroom.
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In a November 2023 op-ed for The New York Times, Dr. Omer Bartov wrote that while the IDF appeared to be committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, he was not convinced that there was sufficient evidence to claim that genocide was taking place. But in an essay published in The Guardian in August 2024, he stated that he had become convinced that Israel was undertaking a genocidal campaign against the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip. His talk 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.
Speaker Bio - 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 two new books tentatively titled “Israel: What Went Wrong?” and “The Broken Promise: A Personal-Political History of Israel and Palestine.”
Source: Gaza and the Question of Genocide - Georgetown University