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| WELCOME TO GPN ISSUE 9, WINTER 2012
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TWO GPN NOW BULLETINS: IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH, AND LAWS AGAINST DENIAL OF GENOCIDE
This issue of GPN begins with two Special Sections that we have already published in recent weeks as advance Preview GPN NOW Bulletins.
The first one is devoted to the critical issue of IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH. See the Table of Contents here below.
The second Special Section, LAWS AGAINST DENIAL, refers to laws criminalizing denials of genocides, with the major focus on the recent passage of such a law by the French Parliament, as of now the decision of the French Constitutional Court that the law is unconstitutional, and a pledge by President Sarkozy to reinstitute acceptable legislation. See the Table of Contents here below.
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| GPN INVITES PROPOSALS TO CONTINUE GPN FROM 2013
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GPN invites proposals from established institutes, centers, departments, museums or any other foundations, or human rights organizations to continue the publication of GPN beginning in January 2013.
GPN will have been produced over the three year period beginning 2010 and ending December 2012 under a three-year grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. At the conclusion of this period, GPN's editor in chief and long-time executive director of the Institute of the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem will be retiring from these formal roles (although it is his intention and hope to continue major projects). We are interested in a proposal to undertake publication of
GPN from a group that does meaningful work in genocide education and prevention and that has a record of organizational stability and excellence.
We are proud of being the first publication to combine information both about actual ongoing developments in respect of genocide in our world, scientific and theoretical analyses of genocidal processes in the past, present and future, and compilations of information about work being done and events in the various areas of genocide memory, academic instruction, research, and efforts and new innovations at prevention. We will be happy to see this emerging format of a major world information resource continued at the conclusion of our own initial contribution.
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| SPECIAL SECTION IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH WINTER 2012 BREAKING NEWS!
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| IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH, WINTER 2012
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GPN's editor says he doesn't know how, but Iran must be stopped. With a PS on writing a warning of a threat of genocide
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Are the Iranians Rational?
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| Special Section: ON LEGISLATION AGAINST DENIAL OF GENOCIDE
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The following Special Section is devoted to laws against denial of the Holocaust and Genocide. It was published as a GPN Preview Section to Issue 9 in early February 2012. The republication that now follows includes a NEW original article by Jacqueline Lecholtz-Zey. She writes specifically about Holocaust denial, but her concepts are relevant to the broader subject of genocide denial as well. This new article is drawn from the author’s revision of the original publication in GPN Issue 3. In this revised article, the author has now added updates to laws, and also a new discussion in which she suggests a possible American constitutional basis for laws against denial.
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| FRANCE PASSES BILL CRIMINALIZING DENIERS OF GENOCIDE
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G P N O R I G I N A L
The
bill that was passed has been understood by everyone - ultimately
correctly - to refer to the Armenian Genocide. In fact however, the
bill is not specifically directed at criminalizing only denials of the
Armenian Genocide but at criminalizing denials of any and all of the
genocides that are otherwise recognized legally by the French, including
very clearly the Holocaust, and in recent years the Armenian Genocide.
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France Passes Bill Criminalizing Denials of Genocide – including the Armenian Genocide
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| ROGER SMITH ANNOUNCES SUPPORT OF FRENCH LAW AGAINST GENOCIDE DENIAL
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| A LEGAL PROFESSIONAL SUGGESTS U.S. LAW MAY ALLOW FOR DENIAL LEGISLATION
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| PROS AND CONS ABOUT LEGISLATING DENIALS
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| REPRINTS OF FOUR GPN ARTICLES ABOUT DENIAL LEGISLATION
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Editorial Note: GPN is republishing two important articles that have appeared in earlier issues on legislation of denial by Michael Bayzler and Jacqueline Lechtholz-Zey. Both of these articles enjoyed a very wide readership when they were published originally by GPN, and they will serve as very helpful background reading at this time when we look at the new step taken by the French. As noted earlier, the article by Lechtholz-Zey has been revised and expanded.
In Issue 6 of GPN, Spring 2011, we published two articles on legislating denials by two authors Roger Smith and Israel Charny whose latest statements on denial appear in this issue. Here we reprint two earlier works by them. Both authors are among the co-founders of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and both are past presidents. Both authors have been friends and colleagues for over 30 years, and respect and appreciate one another very much ever since meeting at a conference on genocide at Bentley College near Boston so long ago.
Roger Smith, an American political scientist has been adamantly opposed to legislation against genocide denial and against criminalization of genocide denial. Israel Charny, an American and Israeli clinical psychologist has been adamantly for legislation against genocide denial.
Smith has been at the same time an outspoken critic of denials of genocide and a devoted advocate and indeed a leader in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. For some years he has served as Chair of the Board of the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies of the Zoryan Institute. There is little doubt that he firmly supports recognition of the Armenian Genocide, yet, in principle, until now he has been against legislation. Read this earlier article, originally published in GPN from a law review, and then reread Smith's new statement earlier in this section.
Charny, for many years has been an outspoken supporter of legislation against deniers, yet in the last year he has modified his position insofar as he has emphasized legislation that criminalizes those denials of genocide that incite to violence. As a psychologist he also proposes a framework for content analysis of the extent of incitement to violence in denials of genocide. Charny has previously analyzed all denials of genocide to be inherently or metaphorically celebrations and encouragement of violence, but in his recent work he focuses on more explicit incitement to violence as a possible preferred basis for legislation that may be acceptable, even in the framework of the emphatic American tradition, of nearly total free speech.
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| SYRIA'S INCREMENTAL GENOCIDE IS LESS AND LESS INCREMENTAL
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In the last issue, GPN reported on an "incremental genocide," developing in Syria. The extent of the killings has now mounted fiercely, although some genocide scholar still argue about whether genocide is taking place, and some focus on the very serious complexities of political considerations of who in Syria (with the aid of some Sunni Arab countries) are busy destroying whom for their political-ethnic purposes. For GPN the facts are that thousands of innocent civilians are being butchered and that is genocide.
Russian and China remained solidly behind Assad as many world leaders decried them |
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Russia and China Veto Security Council Vote as Syrian Forces Continue Killing
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| QUOTABLE: On Meaningful Intervention to Save Lives
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We need a new standard for humanitarian intervention so we can take military action before the killing spirals out of control. By setting the bar for intervention so high - unmistakable evidence of clear intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group - the international community is caught in a Catch-22: By the time it is clear that genocide is occurring, it is often too late to stop it. We need a new standard for humanitarian intervention.
If a continuing government-sponsored campaign of mass homicide - in which thousands have already died and many thousands more are likely to die - is occurring, a coalition of countries, sanctioned by major international and regional institutions, should intervene to stop the killing before it gets worse, so long as there is a viable plan for intervention with minimal risk of casualties for the intervening forces.
In eastern Libya, rather than seeking regime change to prevent genocide, President Obama focused instead on the narrower objective of preventing "a humanitarian catastrophe" and explicitly ruled out foreign-imposed regime change. Limited military force to stop campaigns of state-sanctioned homicide is more pragmatic than waiting for irrefutable evidence of "genocide." It will not work in every case but it will save large numbers of lives.
--Excerpted from Robert A. Pape, February 3, 2012. Stopping genocide early on.
International Herald Tribune.
Robert A. Pape is identified as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and director of its Project on Security and Terrorism.
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| GENOCIDE EMERGENCY! SUDAN, SOUTH KORDOFAN AND BLUE NILE STATE
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| INCREDIBLE DENIALS BY LEADING ACADEMICS: RWANDA AND MORE
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GPN was referred to the article by Bruce Sharp,
from which we have taken excerpts, by Robert Melson, a
former President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
(IAGS), but the article was not submitted directly to GPN by the
author. The articles by Adam Jones and Gerald Caplan that are published
in this issue of GPN were submitted or permitted directly by these
authors.
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| TRUTHS ABOUT RWANDA, INCLUDING WHO BOMBED THE PRESIDENTIAL AIRPLANE
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| 'UNQUOTABLE': A Bizarre Distortion of Milgram
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Editor's Note: Occasionally one comes across misunderstanding and distortions of facts that are so extreme that they deserve to be labelled as a memorable 'Unquotable.' Steven Katz is a Holocaust scholar who baldly denies there having been ANY other cases of genocide other than the Holocaust. He trivializes and virtually mocks Stanley Milgram's epic research of conformity and evil which now becomes how to get an A in class with Professor Milgram.
There have been various experiments done since World War II, especially by a man named Stanley Milgram at Yale -- "experimented with his students to see how far they will go just to get an A in class." Browning put a lot of weight on the issue of peer pressure. The people in these groups were given the opportunity to step out and not participate. But almost no one did, because they were afraid of being called cowards and losing the respect of other people in the group. Browning puts a special importance on that psychological element, that people are very conformist, very afraid of stepping out and being seen as saying no to the group. Goldhagen found that explanation much too tepid for a crime like this and focused on the profound importance of ideology. So these are the debates that have been going on and I happen to think that ideology was probably more important than Christopher Browning gives it credit for.
--Steven Katz is Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University where he holds the Alvin J and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies. http://thebrowser.com/books/interviews/steven-katz
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Reprinted with Permission
One way of coming to terms with reality is literally finding the right words to describe it. Two articles by a learned and caring man who is the theatre critic of Haaretz
About "genocide," "Holocaust," Raphael Lemkin, and a new book in Hebrew by Israel Charny about humans who do these things
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Naming the Unnameable
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Does any one people 'own' the big words about the terrible big disasters?
G P N O R I G I N A L |
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The Semantics of Disaster
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| DVD OF FILM "RAVISHED ARMENIA" NOW AVAILABLE
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 Readers of GPN are invited to order a very special video with real photos from the Armenian Genocide. Ravished Armenia is the personal account by Aurora Mardiganian of the brutal murder of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire. The book was first published in 1918, shortly after Mardiganian's arrival in the United States. It was subsequently filmed in 1919, and both the book and the movie created a considerable stir throughout the Western world.
The story of Ravished Armenia begins on Easter Sunday, 1915, and ends in 1917, with Aurora Mardiganian wandering across the plains of Armenia watching as her family and her community are raped, robbed and murdered. She later escaped to Russia, Norway, and eventually the United States. The price of the film is $15 (US). To order the film, please email Hank Demoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute in Yerevan, Armenia at director@genocide-museum.am
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An impassioned reply and rebuttal by a French Armenian organization that fights denials
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CollectifVAN Responds to UNESCO
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| IN MEMORIAM: KURT JONASSOHN, 1920-2011
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THREAT Stories in this Issue
- A Release of Gilad Shalit Brings Promise of More Abductions
- Boko Haram Militants in Nigeria Attack Market
- IT REALLY HAPPENED
Nigeria: Boko Haram Militants in Nigeria Attack Christians a Special Target
Iraq: Attacks against Shiites
Turkey: Kurdish rebels killed in air attack on leaders
NEWSPEAK Stories in this Issue
- "The Brutal Murder of Gaddafi and the Implications" per Iran
- The Jew is Satan
- Egypt's Leading University on the Jewish Character
- Apes and Pigs, Guess Who?
- Fatah on Gilad Shalit: Bars, Brothels, Robbery, Murder and Rape
- Chairman Mao is our Savior - and Now in North Korea
- Excerpts from a letter to the editor on Kim Jong Il's Human Rights Violations
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