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It is not genocide: A response to Omer Bartov

JL;DR SUMMARY In their article, Michael Berenbaum and Menachem Z. Rosensaft challenge historian Omer Bartov's assertions that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute genocide. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HamasHolocaustGazaJewish StudiesTwo State SolutionInternational LawGenocideOmer BartovMichael Berenbaum

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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
"Omer Bartov is a respected historian of the Holocaust who also teaches about genocide as Deans Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University."
Gaza, Southern District, Israel
"He accuses Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinian population of Gaza while glossing over, almost in passing, the fact that the present Israel-Hamas war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023."
New York City, New York, United States
"but we substantively disagree with the conclusions stated in his July 15 op-ed in The New York Times, I am a Genocide Scholar."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"Michael Berenbaum is the director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a distinguished professor of Jewish studies at American Jewish University in Los Angeles."

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