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Martin Shaw
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One of the first genocide scholars to recognise Israel’s genocide. Author of ‘The New Age of Genocide’, just published by Agenda, and ‘What is Genocide?’. Sociology/IR professor, IBEI Barcelona/University of Sussex. martinshaw.org, martinshawx.substack.com .. more

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Martin Shaw is a British sociologist and academic. He is a research professor of international relations at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, and emeritus professor of international relations and politics at Sussex University. He is best known for his sociological work on war, genocide and global politics. .. more

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 20h
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.’
dirkmoses.bsky.social Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 1d
I answer critics of “Education after Gaza” here.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 1d
I answer critics of “Education after Gaza” here.
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 2d
@hrw.org may have blocked Omar Shakir & Milena Ansari’s report because it linked Israel’s denial of Palestinians’ right of return to a prosecutable international crime against humanity. So it should, after 77 years of enforcing genocidal mass expulsions.

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Researchers at Human Rights Watch Resign Over Blocked Report on…
The departures have roiled the prominent watchdog group over a decision one staffer called “unprincipled and cowardly.”
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 2d
‘The largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in one operation since the 1967 war.’
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‘Since the onset of the Gaza genocide, a staggering 10,000 Palestinians have been internally displaced across the West Bank, with entire villages emptied, dismantled, and erased. This is in addition to the more than 30,000 Palestinians displaced from refugee camps’

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Israeli Settlers, Military Accelerate Violent Expulsion of Palestinians Off Their Land in the West Bank
What was once creeping encroachment by settlers has escalated over the past three years into a state-backed campaign of mass expulsion.
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 2d
‘Since the onset of the Gaza genocide, a staggering 10,000 Palestinians have been internally displaced across the West Bank, with entire villages emptied, dismantled, and erased. This is in addition to the more than 30,000 Palestinians displaced from refugee camps’

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Israeli Settlers, Military Accelerate Violent Expulsion of Palestinians Off Their Land in the West Bank
What was once creeping encroachment by settlers has escalated over the past three years into a state-backed campaign of mass expulsion.
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 2d
‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

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‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 3d
Yvette Cooper with the Israeli embassy, using Holocaust Memorial Day to cover up the Gaza genocide: ‘I am committed to preventing atrocities and pushing for accountability wherever they occur – from Sudan to Iran.’

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2026: Foreign Secretary's speech
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper gave a speech at the FCDO's Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration, co-hosted with the Embassy of Israel, on 26 January 2026.
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d
A defeat for anti-Palestinian repression in the UK. The victory of the Filton protesters is a strong sign to the government to lift the Palestine Action ban, and to the courts to uphold the judicial review.

Here in their own words:

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POST VERDICT PRESS RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE 04/02/2026 HUGE VICTORY FOR FILTON24 AS JURY ACQUITS FIRST SIX DEFENDANTS OF AGGRAVATED BURGLARY AND DOES NOT CONVICT ANY DEFENDANT OF ANY OFFENCES Videos and Images available here, w...
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d
I only just came across this - it’s really important research and relevant to the controversy over the surveillance threat posed by AI.
danweiss.bsky.social Daniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · Jun 2
I wrote a piece for Jacobin about the misuse of antisemitism scholarship for authoritarian projects and the role German antisemitism scholarship plays in the dehumanisation of Palestinians and the justification of the genocide in Gaza.
jacobinmag.bsky.social Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · May 29
Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 7d
Hi Nick, it’s really nice to hear from you. Babies above all I fully understand. There will be a recording online.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 7d
Tomorrow!

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 9d
Confirmation that Biden broke US law to aid Israel’s genocide.
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Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today
Hard to overstate the damage to US-Israel relations done by the sense of entitlement and ingratitude reflected in comments like these and Netanyahu's own recent statements. Baseless misdirection to suggest that Israeli soldiers' deaths in Gaza we caused by some phantom US "embargo" (when in fact Biden resisted enormous pressure to condition aid, as required by U.S. law, even as Israel rebuffed calls to facilitate more humanitarian assistance and reduce civilian casualties), and insulting to suggest that U.S. concern for people of Gaza was driven by "Michigan," as if no other possible basis for concern comes to mind. If goal of Netanyahu and his partisans is to accelerate the sharp decline in U.S. public support for Israel, and to further undermine the bipartisan character of that support, this seems like good way to go about it.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9d
Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today
Hard to overstate the damage to US-Israel relations done by the sense of entitlement and ingratitude reflected in comments like these and Netanyahu's own recent statements. Baseless misdirection to suggest that Israeli soldiers' deaths in Gaza we caused by some phantom US "embargo" (when in fact Biden resisted enormous pressure to condition aid, as required by U.S. law, even as Israel rebuffed calls to facilitate more humanitarian assistance and reduce civilian casualties), and insulting to suggest that U.S. concern for people of Gaza was driven by "Michigan," as if no other possible basis for concern comes to mind. If goal of Netanyahu and his partisans is to accelerate the sharp decline in U.S. public support for Israel, and to further undermine the bipartisan character of that support, this seems like good way to go about it.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 10d
I coined the idea of ‘risk-transfer war’ in The New Western Way of War (2005). In Gaza, the tactical transfer of harm to Palestinian civilians is so extreme that it can only be explained by overall political as well as military policy.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 10d
A damning critique by a US veteran which systematically undermines the military case for Israeli methods. However, by treating this an extreme case of risk-transfer war, it avoids the question of the overall (genocidal) intent at the policy level.

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Gaza and the Conduct of Urban War: Civilian Harm, Risk, and Responsibility
Urban warfare is often invoked as an alibi: dense terrain, an embedded enemy, human shields, imperfect intelligence. These conditions are real but they do
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 11d
You can now watch my lecture, The Academy, Israel’s Genocide and the Phases of Denial, given on 27 January 2026 to Philosophy of Education Sans Frontiers. You may need to sign into your Zoom account to view the recording.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 12d
‘Threading this needle is possible [for Reform] but not easy, and they may have made life harder for themselves with their choice of candidate, former academic and GB News pundit Matthew Goodwin.’ Rob gently puts the boot in on his disreputable ex-colleague, giving us the lowdown on the by-election.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 12d
Bitte

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 12d
New Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters

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The Gorton and Denton by-election: a tale of two Manchesters?
Unpopular incumbent + fragmented opposition + unusual seat = unpredictable contest
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 13d
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.

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 14d
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Dirk Moses: What "Never Again" Means After Gaza – Nullpunkt, Ep. 10
YouTube video by Nullpunkt – mit Hanno Hauenstein
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 14d
A Day of Denial: I've written about how the organisers of tomorrow's Holocaust Memorial Day have written out, Soviet-style, the onoing genocides in Gaza and Sudan.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 16d
The Academy, Israel’s Genocide and the Phases of Denial.

I will be talking in this Philosophy of Education Sans Frontiers online seminar, Tuesday 27 January 5.30-7 (GMT). Further information from qasir.shah.14@ucl.ac.uk

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PESF Seminar Series #3 - Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
The Academy, Israel’s Genocide and the Phases of Denial Prof Martin Shaw, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals Join Zoom Meeting https://ucl.zoom.us/j/97445147954 Meeting ID: 974 4514 7954 Mart...
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 20d
Striking from Carney, but when he says ‘we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim’, one thinks of Canada’s Gaza policy. Can the ‘middle powers’ break with the USA but still back Israel?

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 20d
Israel preparing facility in Rafah to corral Palestinian survivors, according to surveillance analysis by @forensicarchi.bsky.social.

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Israel Is Preparing Land in Rafah to Corral Palestinians into an Area Under Full Military Occupation
Satellite images analyzed by Forensic Architecture show Israel razing land, compacting the ground, and clearing rubble in Rafah in a way that is not visible anywhere else east of the yellow line.
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 20d
As another official Holocaust Memorial Day without mention of Gaza looms …
tnflorvil.bsky.social Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · Dec 24
"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...
Is Holocaust Memory Over? – the Diasporist
How the German political and media classes have hollowed out the lessons of history
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 21d
Starmer: ‘There is a principle here that cannot be set aside: any decision about the future of Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland and Denmark alone. That right is fundamental and we support it.’ - Yet the future of Gaza *doesn’t* belong to Palestinians *alone*, but to Israel, USA et al?

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 22d
The Greeks may have excluded their slaves but they didn’t deport them.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 24d
A thoughtful and insightful overview, which brings out the importance of both books, but I came away asking, what do we then make of the centrality of genocide claims to the critique of Israel in Gaza? Curiously abstracted, I thought, from the current moment.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 24d
Well put. One point re Abdel-Fattah’s comments: *if* Hamas had only attacked Israeli military targets on 7 October, it *would* have been a different question. I don’t have information on when she spoke.