Can’t remember where, but Dirk Moses’ big genocide book simply doesn’t make the mistake of treating colonial genocide as an afterthought, or Nazi thought as outside of European history; rather, habitual mass killing of civilians just comes with the expansion of European settler colonies.

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"The 'never again is now' campaign seemed to be conscripting Adorno’s legacy for Israel’s destruction of Gaza. But is this use of his ideas accurate and true to his spirit?" @dirkmoses.bsky.social responds to an editorial in the FAZ linking Adorno and Staatsräson: thediasporist.de/education-ag...

In addition to legal wrangling about international law (which is important), scholars can investigate the strategic logic driving mass state violence. The notion of permanent security that I introduced in The Problems of Genocide is being taken up by Israeli analysts www.972mag.com/israel-iran-...

«Moses argues that this hierarchy allows countries to commit ongoing small-scale massacres of civilians and get away with it, for it does not amount to genocide. Yet ...

Just out in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law, Raef Zreik’s review article on The Problems of Genocide brill.com/view/journal...

I’ve been invited by Simon Maghakyan to address the Armenian community on this special commemoration day this afternoon in Denver. It’s a great honour. l will speak about the significance of the Armenian genocide in history and memory today armeniansofcolorado.org/events/aoc-g...

Tonight with @marieberry.bsky.social, we discuss global conflict @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social korbel.du.edu/event/the-ne...

Dirk addresses the changing significance of ‘genocide’: ‘There is no mistaking the changing winds in the language of transgression. It is illuminating liberal permanent security as genocidal, thereby repoliticizing a concept whose foundations were flawed in its codification in the 1940s.’

"Indigenous and occupied peoples, then, are placed in an impossible position. If they resist with violence, they are violently put down. If they do not, states will overlook the lower-intensity but unrelenting violence to which they are subject." - Dirk Moses

Just out journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Postdocs in Venice www.unive.it/pag/28536/

The theory of #permanentsecurity summed up perfectly. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

This is the problem with #genocide rhetoric. @dirkmoses.bsky.social has shown that genocide is the end result of permanent securitization - framing groups as permanent security threats. Such abuses are always a part of total war - like the ones supposedly needed to stop the evil genocidaires...

IIFFM #Sudan found 'hallmarks of #genocide' in the attacks on El-Fasher. BUT this is in the context of almost 3 yrs of such violent, ethnically/racially targeted crimes, where non-Arab communities are targeted for rape & killings. A resurgence of the early 2000s genocide. news.un.org/en/story/202...

1946: Imperialism: Road to Suicide. www.commentary.org/articles/mor...

this is a must read for all those on here still puzzled by the germans... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @dirkmoses.bsky.social thanx for this issue.

„Was schmerzhafte Selbstbefragung sein sollte, wurde zur herrischen Geste.“

"Dirk Moses schlägt vor, dass in einer „Erziehung nach Gaza“ für deutsche Schulkinder die bei Youtube abrufbaren Hilferufe der fünfjährigen Hind Rajab einen Platz finden sollten, die im Januar 2024 bei einer israelischen Militäraktion getötet wurde."

„Aus der etablierten deutschen Akademikerschaft sind gegenwärtig solche widerständigen, die Dominanz des of­fiziellen deutschen Erinnerungsdiskurs hinterfragenden Töne nicht zu vernehmen.“ René Schlott über Omer Bartov und @dirkmoses.bsky.social. www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

In the forum on political economy, Jonathon Catlin asks what a public debate about the Frankfurt School's legacy among prominent former students of Martin Jay—the "Berkeley School"—tells us about the future relationship between political economy and intellectual history. @joncatlin.bsky.social

Call for papers think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Ich bin auf jeden Fall sehr froh, in einer Reihe u.a. mit @adamtooze.bsky.social, @dirkmoses.bsky.social, @hahauenstein.bsky.social und @marwecki.bsky.social zu stehen. Eigentlich hätte auch der Redaktion @faznet.bsky.social auffallen müssen, dass sich hier jemand gegen einen Strohmann ficht...

Now on FirstView: Camilla Boisen reflects on the stories we tell ourselves about peace and genocide in her review essay of A. Dirk Moses' @dirkmoses.bsky.social The Problems of Genocide and Lauren Benton's They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence

Dirk Moses senses ‘an air of desperation’ in recent responses of the pro-Statsrason thinkers. ‘Their catechism is buckling under the reality that the German public—including even some functionaries of the German state—can clearly see.’

Very important point by Dirk Moses (shortened by me): "Germany’s fixation on the Nazi regime locks actors into a catastrophic binary of absolute innocence and absolute evil. Coming to terms with the Nazi past can't mean adopting its categorization of the world by simply inverting the value signs."

I answer critics of “Education after Gaza” here. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Postdoc binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Powerful reflecitons on Gaza and German memory culture, with much to think about for people in other countries, in this interview with @dirkmoses.bsky.social. A must-watch.

It was good to talk with inimitable @hahauenstein.bsky.social about the failure of #Erinnerungskultur

@hahauenstein.bsky.social interviewed me on his splendid podcast about the pitfalls of German memory culture youtu.be/UO54Cjg3-7Q

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...