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| Welcome to GPN Issue 8 TopPage Breaking News
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| HGR FEATURES NEW CURRICULUM ON ANTI-SEMITISM & THE HOLOCAUST
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GPN introduces a new feature of presenting selected course syllabi: The featured curriculum in this issue's
Directory of Academic Programs and Courses is Anti-Semitism and the
Holocaust at the University of Idaho.
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Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust at the University of Idaho
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| Issue 8, Winter 2011 |
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"Arab Spring, Kurdish Winter"
"Turkey often presents itself to the world as a model Muslim democracy, but it is in fact denying basic democratic rights to almost 20 percent of its population. "But while the prime minister frequently expresses his sorrow over the deaths of Palestinian children, he has not so much as mentioned the Kurdish children who have been killed by the army and the police in Turkey. "Unfortunately, Mr. Erdogan’s recent comment that he would have hanged Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish nationalist leader, had he been in power when Mr. Ocalan was arrested in 1999 gives the impression that he is leaning toward the second path. "Turkey has stepped up military operations, banned the leading Kurdish party, the D.T.P., and arrested Kurdish politicians, including me. (I was arrested in November 2006 and spent nine months behind bars, until I was elected to Parliament from prison and granted immunity in July 2007.) "Since then the government has largely ignored the Kurdish people’s grievances. Turkey’s Kurds, after decades of struggle, must be granted the right to learn and pray in our own language and exercise self-government in our cities and towns."
-- Tuncel, Sebahat (June 17, 2011). International Herald Tribune. Arab Spring, Kurdish Winter. New York Times. Translated from Turkish. Sebahat Tuncel is a Kurdish member of Turkey’s Parliament who had been in jail a month before she was elected.
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| GPN INVITES READERS TO PROTEST ZARAKOLU'S IMPRISONMENT
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Book Publication of GPN 2010 On Its Way
A GPN Genocide Prevention Now book of GPN Issues 2010 (Issues 1-4) will be published in a bound printed volume by Gorgias Press.
Information on ordering books will be available in future issues.
Please click here to see the cover of the forthcoming two-volume set, the Introduction and detailed Tables of Contents.
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| WELCOME TO WINTER 2011 ISSUE 8 of GPN GENOCIDE PREVENTION NOW
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See first of all the two SPECIAL SECTIONS that we pre-published prior to the full Issue 8:
1. DIRECT QUOTATIONS FROM ISRAELI KNESSET HEARING, DECEMBER 26, 2011, ON RECOGNIZING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
2. IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH
Our world is electric with powerful 'Arab Spring' revolutions now continuing into 'Arab Winter', protests and democratic peoples' initiatives in many places around the world, but we are aware that relentless time marches on in Iran's preparation of deadly nuclear weapons. GPN again emphasizes our section entitled IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH with more news about expansion of construction facilities for nuclear weapons, underground launch sites, missiles that can reach as far as the shores of the Unites States, and at long last a definitive conclusion: Iran wants nuclear weapons. Still, there are totally intelligent voices that say we should not be concerned, some who believe that Iran is only developing peaceful nuclear capacity as is its right and others who believe that deterrents - including possible nuclear retaliation - by strong forces in the world will see to it that Iran will never do a nuclear strike, say, against the homeland of the Jews, Israel or its hated Arab rival, Saudi Arabia. GPN disagrees. We continue to see the development of nuclear weapons by Iran as the most serious and pressing problem in our tough world.
In this issue GPN reports on a major initiative by the U.S. Government toward prevention of future genocides;on ongoing genocidal destruction in the Sudan area; on the beginning of what we call an "incremental genocide" in Syria; and about the revenge killing at long last of Bin Laden, even as Al Qaeda and the legacy of a proliferating transnational genocidal terrorism thrives in the society of humans.
There is much more in this issue including close-up information shots of Turkey's revered- and more than that - don't dare say a word against him or you will end up in a Turkish jail - founding leader Ataturk, and what U.S. Government officials think about the current leader - you better shut up here also or again you will go to a Turkish jail - the irascible 'sorry, temper lost' - Erdogan.
GPN is happy to bring in this issue once again significant letters to the editor, one by a distinguished genocide scholar who has been on the front line in Cambodia in the effort to install some measure of legal action against the genociders from the disgusting murderous Khmer Rouge era; and another an impassioned report of genocide continuing in Sri Lanka, now against the Tamil who GPN points out were major genociders in their right. Please be encouraged to think of writing your reports and commentaries to GPN.
In the near future, GPN will be installing an interactive mechanism to facilitate the submission of reader comments, opinions, and feedback to GPN stories and articles. Talkback submissions, like Letters to the Editor, will be carefully moderated by GPN. We are interested in statements which expand the knowledge and awareness of others, and of course we will rule out any bigotry, incitement or denial.
As previously announced, GPN is also very proud and pleased to confirm the publication of bound volumes of earlier issues. The first book is now in preparation and will include the first 4 Issues of GPN
in 2010. Gorgias Press is an academic publisher located in Piscataway,
New Jersey. Founded in 2001, it has a distinguished book list
including a number of works on genocide and ethnic groups. As of 2010
its catalogue contained 2500 titles. The first volume heading for publication now will include the first four issues of GPN: Winter 2010, Spring 2010, Summer 2010 and Fall 2010. This hardcover volume is intended for permanent library collections. Naturally, we will be providing information about acquiring the printed volumes from Gorgias Press at a later date.
We want to remind readers and invite you to make use of the fine Search facility accompanying all issues of GPN. The Holocaust and Genocide Review (HGR) section search engine is also fully functional, however, since we are still in the process of entering content into our Web site, some material is not yet available. We are currently publishing all the material in pdf format on the Web site until we complete our transition.
Registered Affiliates of GPN will receive personally an email notice of a new issue and the full TOC for that issue. Please write to gpn.general@genocidepreventionnow.org to become an affiliate of GPN. To place yourself on a GPN Special Mailing List for Readers who Will Receive Announcements of New Issues, please complete the following:
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Best,
Israel
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Come see the Youtube debate between GPN Editor, Israel W. Charny; and arch Holocaust denier (by descralization, minimization, and vitriolic attacks against Israel that achieve the ancient denial strategy of flipping the victim people into the role of perpetrators), Norman Finkelstein.
As of this issue of GPN over 85,000 people have viewed this video.
Click here for a background statement about this video in GPN Issue 2.
To view the Youtube, please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCKTKMFTprM
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During the month of November, when GPN did not publish any new material, GPN
viewers came from 61 countries including the United States, Israel,
Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Italy, Armenia, Turkey,
India, Brazil, Netherlands, Denmark Switzerland, South Africa, South
Korea, Nigeria, France and Spain.
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| GPN IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH SPECIAL SECTION ISSUE 8
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 GPN has already published a SPECIAL SECTION devoted to IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH. See the latest developments, including a long overdue definitive assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran is after nuclear weapons. And see the various differing opinions about what to do to stop Iran or contain her.
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| IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH: EARLIER INFORMATION IN PREVIEW ISSUE
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Iran motivated by religious belief? Or will it agree to destroy Iranians in favor of the ultimate destruction of the enemies of their god?
G P N S T O R Y |
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Iran is Racing Toward a Nuclear Bomb
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G P N S T O R Y
Ahmadinejad in blue trunks versus Khameini -- the probable winner -- in white turban, but it all adds up to the same dangerous future |
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Iran - To Be or Not to Be Nuclear
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G P N S T O R Y
There are others who do not share GPN's deep concern about a nuclear Iran. GPN brings some of these voices but disagrees very strongly. |
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Other Points of View
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| 2 MAJOR DOCUMENTS ON A USA INITIATIVE AND GENOCIDE PREVENTION
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A major step—at least in intent-- of a major government about confronting genocides of ALL peoples
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| Document 1 - U.S. Presidential Directive on Mass Atrocities
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| Document 2 - Risk Factors and Legal Norms for the Prevention of Genocide
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| RATKO MLADIC, COMMANDER SREBRENICA & ANOTHER FUGITIVE ARRESTED
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"We are all one, not Arabs, not Kurds, not Muslims, not Christians, not Alawites, not Druze"
--protesters in Daraa, an impoverished town in southwestern Syria
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| SYRIA DIARY OF AN INCREMENTAL GENOCIDE
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| A SPECIAL SECTION HONORING SCHOLAR, ALFRED DE ZAYAS, IN GENEVA
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226 volumes of the Wehrmacht agency responsible for investigating war crimes and not a word about the Final Solution! A review of a book by Alfred de Zayas and an appreciation by a Dutch jurist, who is a retired UN officer, who holds a second doctorate from Canada where he worked with Irwin Cotler, who is a retired UN officer, and is now teaching law in Brazil.
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Review of "Genocide as State Secret" by Alfred de Zayas
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| DEATH OF BIN LADEN - CELEBRATION OR NOT? & AL QAEDA MARCHES IN INDIA
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| COLLECTIF VAN PRESENTS ARMENIAN MINI-POSTERS
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| ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AND CO-VICTIMS
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| IN MEMORIAM: YELENA BONNER
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| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ABOUT CAMBODIA AND SRI LANKA
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"In New York or Nairobi, Bali or Belfast, Mumbai or Manilla, or Lahore or London"
"Resilience takes many forms, including the dedication and courage to move forward. While we must never forget those who we lost, we must do more than simply remember them - we must sustain our resilience and remain united to prevent new attacks and new victims.
"As we commemorate the citizens of over 90 countries who perished in the 9/11 attacks, we honor all victims of terrorism, in every nation around the world. We honor and celebrate the resilience of individuals, families, and communities on every continent, whether in New York or Nairobi, Bali or Belfast, Mumbai or Manila, or Lahore or London." -- U.S. Government statement on 9/11, May 30, 2011.
Source: Shanker, Thom and Schmitt, Eric (August 29, 2011). White House Issues Guides on September 11 Observances. New York Times.
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| THREAT Stories in this Issue
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- Turkish Activist for Recognition of Armenian Genocide Receives Death Threats
- Kuwaiti Political Activist Calls for Law Permitting the Purchase of POW's as Slave Girls
- Jerusalem Imam Threatens Obama will Hang for Killing Osama Bin Laden
- IT REALLY HAPPENED:
Afghanistan, Iran, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe; including bomber hits funeral service in a mosque, tricking an 8 year old girl to be a suicide bomber, bombing the U.N. in Nigeria, and torturing and beating an 82 year old to death
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| NEWSPEAK Stories in this Issue
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- YouTube Removed Jihad Videos
- Safe Haven for Nazis in the U.S.
- LA Times Criticizes President Obama for a Language of Cowardice
- Turkish Journalists Call on Government to Apologize to Armenians
- Stuttgard University Surrenders to Turks Denial
- Airline Refuses Passenger with Armenian Name
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| Welcome to HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE REVIEW (HGR) INFORMATION RESOURCES
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Executive Director: Prof. Israel W. Charny, Ph.D.
Director of Holocaust and Genocide Review: Marc I Sherman, M.L.S.
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This project was made possible in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The contents of this website are the responsibility of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem.
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