Dirk Moses
@dirkmoses.bsky.social
Teaches at the City College of New York, edits the Journal of Genocide Research. www.dirkmoses.com
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"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
thediasporist.de
December 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"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...
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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...
thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...
Is Holocaust Memory Over? – the Diasporist
How the German political and media classes have hollowed out the lessons of history
thediasporist.de
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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...
thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...
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„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
@dirkmoses.bsky.social
via @thediasporist.bsky.social in Deutsch und in Englisch !
#Erinnerungskultur
„Wenn jemand die Glaubwürdigkeit der Erinnerung an den Holocaust getötet hat, dann sind es die politischen Klassen des Westens, die diese Erinnerung zur Rechtfertigung eines unbestreitbaren Übels missbraucht haben“ - hier auf Deutsch lesen: thediasporist.de/de/ist-die-e...
Ist die Erinnerung an den Holocaust vorbei? – the Diasporist
Wie Deutschlands politische und mediale Eliten die historischen Lehren ausgehöhlt haben
thediasporist.de
December 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
„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
@dirkmoses.bsky.social
via @thediasporist.bsky.social in Deutsch und in Englisch !
#Erinnerungskultur
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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...
thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...
Is Holocaust Memory Over? – the Diasporist
How the German political and media classes have hollowed out the lessons of history
thediasporist.de
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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...
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.
In the next contribution to our series on the Rise & Fall of the BRD, @dirkmoses.bsky.social explores the incipient end of Holocaust memory, and identifies German political and media institutions as the culprits: thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...
Is Holocaust Memory Over? – the Diasporist
How the German political and media classes have hollowed out the lessons of history
thediasporist.de
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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.
It's out!🍾
I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today"
It is Open Access!
👇 You can download it here for free.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today"
It is Open Access!
👇 You can download it here for free.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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...
December 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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...
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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
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
Harry Stopes | Police Violence in Berlin
In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
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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...
@zeit.de
www.zeit.de/2025/53/link...
December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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...
@zeit.de
www.zeit.de/2025/53/link...
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Latest on Substack: a few thoughts on last week’s conference in Zurich.
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
A Symposium Critiques Germany – and the Feuilleton Rushes to Prove It Right
Days after a conference in Zurich dissected Germany’s right-wing drift, the country’s newspapers performed outrage – delivering a real-time demonstration of exactly what the symposium had warned about
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Latest on Substack: a few thoughts on last week’s conference in Zurich.
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
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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.
I say that I deplore the ebbing of Holocaust memory here www.youtube.com/live/8YPsC8L.... Yet this newspaper article suggests that I welcome it. @Zeit.de needs to correct the record.
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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.
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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
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Speaking this afternoon in Tallinn on international law and genocide
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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
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
Gaza Hand of Salvation Initiative
Hello! Mercedes here — I’m organizing this fundraiser on behalf of a wonderful, big-hearted couple in Gaza: Tasneem Abu Sharekh and Nidal Abu Hassan. This initiative, dubbed “The Hand of Salvation,” i...
chuffed.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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
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...
aljumhuriya.net/ar/2025/12/0...
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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...
aljumhuriya.net/ar/2025/12/0...
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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...
blnreview.de/events/educa...
Berlin Review · Education after Gaza—Critical Theory and the Present
Zeitschrift für Bücher und Ideen.
blnreview.de
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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...
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...
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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...
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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...
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...
Colonel George Johnson Fellowship in Australian History
A 12-month fixed-term opportunity at 0.8FTE, with the possibility of variation work Inviting applications for the 2026 Colonel George Johnston Fellowship in Australian History Base Salary Level A $109...
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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...
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....
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Olivera Simic is a prolific author www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
“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...
Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?
A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”
jewishcurrents.org
January 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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...
“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...
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🔥 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.
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.
October 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
🔥 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.
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
October 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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...
October 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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...
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
1931: on the morality and efficacy of bombing women and children scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcont...