The intellectual historian Camilla Boisen has written an extensive review article of my and Lauren Benton‘s books on war and genocide, bringing different fields into conversation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

2 postdocs at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen University, Norway: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Now in Turkish, my short essay on the crisis of Holocaust memory occasioned by its conscription in a genocidal permanent security campaign birikimdergisi.com/guncel/12329...

"In other words, they argue that Holocaust memory, which was designed to prevent the worst, is being used to motivate and justify the worst. And they feel outraged — and betrayed." Dirk Moses thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...

Excellent analysis from @dirkmoses.bsky.social of the implications of Western leaders devaluing Holocaust memory by invoking it to justify another genocide in Gaza: thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...

„Die Logik der Nachkriegsordnung, die auf ethnischen Säuberungen und der Akzeptanz von genozidaler Kriegsführung ( ... ) beruht, wurde offensichtlich, und die Weltöffentlichkeit lehnt sie ab.“ @dirkmoses.bsky.social via @thediasporist.bsky.social in Deutsch und in Englisch ! #Erinnerungskultur

In @thediasporist.bsky.social, @dirkmoses.bsky.social asks whether Holocaust memory has run its course: "If anyone has killed belief in Holocaust memory, it is Western political classes whose misuse of it to justify an undeniable evil have destroyed its currency." thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...

I deplore how the German and western political classes have abused Holocaust memory to the point that publics have lost faith in its lessons.

I have a chapter in this book on how German „obsessions“ (a term I take from @sabanurcheema.bsky.social) are politically „managed“, and provide some examples. Those that ride the 🐅 are also in danger of being consumed.

When in Tallinn last week, I spoke with @andresreimann.bsky.social from Sickle magazine about the concept of genocide, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The photographer opted for the haggard existentialist look but/and we had an exacting discussion. novaator.err.ee/1609884874/g...

For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence. I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk

This is what happens when international law is completely ignored. German discourse is distilled here in all its intellectual and ethical failure, exemplified by "wie denn auch?!", an embarrassing admission of ignorance that replaces critical enquiry. @zeit.de www.zeit.de/2025/53/link...

Latest on Substack: a few thoughts on last week’s conference in Zurich. open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...

Die Zeit hat auf Drängen Moses', die Stelle korrigiert und eingestanden, dass sie von Neumann erfunden wurde. Wie so häufig in diesem Diskurs muss man Aussagen erfinden weil man das was wirklich gesagt wurde nicht debattieren will.

We’ve reached a point where public intellectuals need to screenshot the exact second proving how Germany’s liberal Feuilletons twist their words and thoughts - bcs apparently no one in those newsrooms seems remotely bothered to get it right. Truly absurd.

Ich bin zutiefst getroffen von der unerwarteten Kritik an unserem Symposium „Aufstieg und Fall der BRD“. Es wäre mir nie in den Sinn gekommen, dass mittelmäßige deutsche Feuilleton-Bros sich über unseren Abschied vom mittelmäßigen deutschen Feuilleton empören

Speaking this afternoon in Tallinn on international law and genocide

For #GivingTuesday -- or any day: A mutual aid fund for friends in Gaza: chuffed.org/project/hand... For more context, we just released an updated 2025 interview with Dr. Dirk Moses on the genocide in Gaza: www.alieward.com/ologies/geno... CC: @mercedesdigsit.bsky.social

My “Education after Gaza” essay in the Berlin Review has now appeared in Arabic thanks to Yassin al Haj Saleh aljumhuriya.net/ar/2025/12/0...

Great looking event with @robin-c.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social and Teresa Koloma Beck at diffrakt for @blnreview.bsky.social, discussing Dirk’s piece on critical theory (vor allem in Deutschland?) after Gaza blnreview.de/events/educa...

Speaking at Hiroshima University tonight NYC time via zoom at about history about the present. Thanks to @dahlia-cs.bsky.social for the invitation. nerps.org/2025/10/14/n...

One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Olivera Simic is a prolific author www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/ Brilliant piece, starting with the creation of “genocide studies” and working its way to the current desolation. “What’s the point of this field?” said A. Dirk Moses, a historian who serves as senior editor at the Journal of Genocide Research… jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide...

🔥 A full house for the Swiss Chair Lecture at SPS by @dirkmoses.bsky.social, leading expert on genocide, on: "Gaza and the failure of Frankf. School critical theory" Examined how “never again Auschwitz” has shifted from a call for emancipation to a tool for silencing dissent and policing migration.

A theory of permanent security by AI Trainin in 1943

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?

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 [3/3]

"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

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...

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 Gift link:

“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.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...

A sociology job in Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX816/a...

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...

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

‚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:

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. open.substack.com/pub/journalg...

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....

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....

I loved how @dirkmoses.bsky.social referred to Adorno‘s description of German „Bürgerliche Kälte“ and its tradition of „fertigmachen“ in @blnreview.bsky.social - it helped me understand how deep-rooted this entitlement is. Like of course „They“ have the right to smear & slander whosoever they choose

“Renewables & electric tech are reconfiguring the global landscape of geopolitical power through a competition to seize economic opportunities, through a need for energy security & autonomy, and through the effort to diversify economies to make them more resilient.” www.noemamag.com/the-new-geop...