Dirk Moses

Last week I spoke about Germany with Ted Knudsen in his lively podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

1931: on the morality and efficacy of bombing women and children scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

A reminder not only of the flaws in international law, but of how its treaties and conventions are all a product of their time, in this case the postwar era.

Is the Genocide Convention actually working just as its drafters intended, privileging state sovereignty in armed conflict above all else?

Nahost-Konflikt in Berlin: Mit harter Hand Die Berliner Justiz ächzt unter der Zahl der Strafverfahren mit Nahost-Bezug. Doch viele Vorwürfe entpuppen sich vor Gericht als nicht haltbar.

Das Vorgehen von Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft in Berlin steht deshalb seit Langem in der Kritik. In vielen Fällen entpuppen sich Vorwürfe vor Gericht als nicht haltbar. taz.de/Nahost-Konfl...

Open rank position in politics at the City College of New York. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

"Kwibuka and its Silencing of Trauma: How Reconciliation Initiatives Became Narratives of Violence" by Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod tinyurl.com/3e426bre
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"The Ovaherero and Nama People’s Struggle for Restorative Justice: An Activist-Scholar Lens" by Kaya Alice de Wolff and Jephta U. Nguherimo tinyurl.com/mwr4ksru

Why the International Community Made It So Difficult to Prosecute the Crime of Genocide Today, international law on genocide is working as it was designed to: allowing states to ruthlessly exterminate security threats while making it difficult to apply that law.

As @dirkmoses.bsky.social has argued, “international law on genocide is working as it was designed to: allowing states to ruthlessly exterminate security threats while making it difficult to apply that law.”

A grim reminder of how the Genocide Convention came to be. dawnmena.org/why-the-inte...

Gaza, Genocide and the Limitations of International Law The Genocide Convention that Israel has been accused of violating may contain a critical loophole when it comes to military action.

I'm writing a new monthly column in @wpr.bsky.social. My first piece is on the flaws in international law on genocide and the gap in the Genocide Convention between genocidal intent and "military necessity," drawing on the indispensable work of @dirkmoses.bsky.social

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Even once reluctant scholars now agree on Israel's Gaza assault: It's a genocide Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn't consider it genocide? said one researcher. No.

“Dirk Moses, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Genocide Research, said portions of the field of research are “in crisis” if experts don’t “combat the artificial distinction between [genocide] and military targets” and continue to defend Israel’s actions.”
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Genozid - Geschichte und Aktualität eines umstrittenen Begriffs Menschenrechtsorganisationen werfen Israel einen Völkermord in Gaza vor. Genozidforscher A. Dirk Moses erklärt, warum die Vorwürfe umstritten sind.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/genozid-in-gaza-a-dirk-moses-zur-geschichte-und-aktualitaet-des-begriffs-100.html

Assistant Professor in Sociology (Racism(s), Criminology, Cultural Sociology) at University of Limerick Apply for the Assistant Professor in Sociology (Racism(s), Criminology, Cultural Sociology) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now...

A sociology job in Ireland:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX816/a...

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With @stephandetjen.bsky.social

I discuss the genocide concept in my bad German here. Recorded in one take so I could not clean it up. FWIW www.deutschlandfunk.de/genozid-in-g...

Congrats Martin

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Bereits vor einigen Tagen erschienen, scheint es mir aktueller denn je; als Beitrag zur Debatte in & über Deutschland.
Freue mich sehr, in so guter Gesellschaft zu sein.
H. Kundnani, @adamtooze.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social @hahauenstein.bsky.social @marwecki.bsky.social, E. Özyürek, N. Samour

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‚we suggest that the qualification as genocide expresses a profound loss & longing for justice that is not only…insufficiently captured by individual human rights, crimes v humanity, or war crimes. We use the term “the common” as a concept to denote this loss.‘ voelkerrechtsblog.org/whats-in-a-n...

Excellent explainer on the role of intent in assessing genocide claims:

Israel’s Displacement/Immobility Nexus in Palestine This post is authored by Dr. Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies at UCL and the author of 'A Short History of the Gaza Strip'.

Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece.
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Epilogue: The 116-Year War on Palestine Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.npr.org/2025/09/25/g...

@annevanmourik.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Starvation in Contexts of Mass Violence and Genocide. Please see the attached notice for full details.

"the destruction of Gaza – its people and all that sustains it – is not an unintended outcome of an armed conflict but is knowingly and deliberately performed as part of an armed conflict" - Dirk Moses Introduction: Gaza and the Problems of Genocide Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

I wrote an essay, "A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice" for the Journal of Genocide Studies..

Thanks to Dirk Moses for editing the roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies where it appears.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A great book! But completed before 7 October.