Dirk Moses
@dirkmoses.bsky.social
Teaches at the City College of New York, edits the Journal of Genocide Research. www.dirkmoses.com
the Diasporist #Newsletter 15.05.26 – Zwei Gastbeiträge beleuchten die Krise der deutschen Debattenkultur: Diedrich Diederichsen kartografiert den Wandel des Feuilletons zur staatsnahen Diskursinstanz, während A. Dirk Moses die Instrumentalisierung von Adornos Erbe gegen palästinensische Leben ...
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„…one needs to use the concept of "permanent security" coined by the genocide researcher Dirk Moses. "Permanent security" is the idea that there is a need to nullify and efface any hint of threat, real or imaginary.“ www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
It wasn't just revenge that Israel was after in Gaza | Opinion
There Is No Way of Understanding the Manner in Which the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Society Operated Over the Last Two-and-a-half Years Without Recognizi
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My new podcast on 99 Zu Eins covers why we are in a “new age of genocide”, the relationships of war and genocide, the “structure of genocide” in Palestine, and my views on Omer Bartov’s new book on Israel and Dirk Moses’ The Problems of Genocide—and much more, especially Gaza. youtu.be/5OA6MrAKRGY
The New Age of Genocide w/ Martin Shaw - 99 ZU EINS - Ep. 679
YouTube video by 99 ZU EINS
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Being reminded of Adorno’s statement that “in placing the right of the state over that of its members, the horror is potentially already posited” by @dirkmoses.bsky.social ‘s talk on Camouflaged Genocide today
Can’t remember where, but Dirk Moses’ big genocide book simply doesn’t make the mistake of treating colonial genocide as an afterthought, or Nazi thought as outside of European history; rather, habitual mass killing of civilians just comes with the expansion of European settler colonies.
Hilfreiche Einordnung und Antwort auf Witter von Dirk Moses:
"The 'never again is now' campaign seemed to be conscripting Adorno’s legacy for Israel’s destruction of Gaza. But is this use of his ideas accurate and true to his spirit?" @dirkmoses.bsky.social responds to an editorial in the FAZ linking Adorno and Staatsräson: thediasporist.de/education-ag...
Education Against Staatsräson – the Diasporist
“Never again is now” is the phrase deployed to mobilize German support for Israel’s reprisal against the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israeli communities on 7 October 2023.
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In addition to legal wrangling about international law (which is important), scholars can investigate the strategic logic driving mass state violence. The notion of permanent security that I introduced in The Problems of Genocide is being taken up by Israeli analysts www.972mag.com/israel-iran-...
«Moses argues that this hierarchy allows countries to commit ongoing small-scale massacres of civilians and get away with it, for it does not amount to genocide. Yet ...
Dirk Moses@dirkmoses.bsky.social · 3mo agoJust out in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law, Raef Zreik’s review article on The Problems of Genocide brill.com/view/journal...
Just out in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law, Raef Zreik’s review article on The Problems of Genocide brill.com/view/journal...
I’ve been invited by Simon Maghakyan to address the Armenian community on this special commemoration day this afternoon in Denver. It’s a great honour. l will speak about the significance of the Armenian genocide in history and memory today armeniansofcolorado.org/events/aoc-g...
AOC Genocide Commemoration – Armenians of Colorado
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Tonight with @marieberry.bsky.social, we discuss global conflict @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social korbel.du.edu/event/the-ne...
Dirk addresses the changing significance of ‘genocide’: ‘There is no mistaking the changing winds in the language of transgression. It is illuminating liberal permanent security as genocidal, thereby repoliticizing a concept whose foundations were flawed in its codification in the 1940s.’
Dirk Moses@dirkmoses.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust out journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
"Indigenous and occupied peoples, then, are placed in an impossible position. If they resist with violence, they are violently put down. If they do not, states will overlook the lower-intensity but unrelenting violence to which they are subject." - Dirk Moses
More than Genocide
The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.
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The theory of #permanentsecurity summed up perfectly. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
The Problems of Genocide | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoBessent: "Many people, especially the Democrats, underestimate the will of the American people for short-term volatility for 50 years of safety that we are gonna have on the other side of this"
This is the problem with #genocide rhetoric. @dirkmoses.bsky.social has shown that genocide is the end result of permanent securitization - framing groups as permanent security threats. Such abuses are always a part of total war - like the ones supposedly needed to stop the evil genocidaires...
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4mo agoNo, in fact it was. Likewise, the Vietnam War was not, despite massive forced displacements, intentional efforts to make the country inhabitable, massacres of civilians, and an enormous death total. This is why the definition is complicated and I, as a nonexpert, prefer to use other strong terms.
IIFFM #Sudan found 'hallmarks of #genocide' in the attacks on El-Fasher. BUT this is in the context of almost 3 yrs of such violent, ethnically/racially targeted crimes, where non-Arab communities are targeted for rape & killings. A resurgence of the early 2000s genocide. news.un.org/en/story/202...
Sudan: ‘Hallmarks of genocide’ found in El Fasher, UN investigators detail mass killings and ethnic targeting
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out ethnically targeted killings, widespread sexual violence and enforced disappearances during their late-October takeover of El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region...
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this is a must read for all those on here still puzzled by the germans... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @dirkmoses.bsky.social thanx for this issue.
Liberal, Illiberal, Post-Liberal: Philosemitism in Europe Since the Holocaust
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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„Was schmerzhafte Selbstbefragung sein sollte, wurde zur herrischen Geste.“
taz@taz.de · 5mo agoDie Erinnerungskultur in diesem Land wird genau durch jene zerstört, die vorgeben, sie zu verteidigen: die politische Kaste der Scheinheiligen.
"Dirk Moses schlägt vor, dass in einer „Erziehung nach Gaza“ für deutsche Schulkinder die bei Youtube abrufbaren Hilferufe der fünfjährigen Hind Rajab einen Platz finden sollten, die im Januar 2024 bei einer israelischen Militäraktion getötet wurde."
„Aus der etablierten deutschen Akademikerschaft sind gegenwärtig solche widerständigen, die Dominanz des offiziellen deutschen Erinnerungsdiskurs hinterfragenden Töne nicht zu vernehmen.“ René Schlott über Omer Bartov und @dirkmoses.bsky.social. www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
Genozid, Erinnerung und Kritik: Debatte in der "Berlin Review"
Omer Bartov hat bei Pierre Vidal-Naquet nachgeschlagen, Dirk Moses bei Theodor W. Adorno: Die „Berlin Review“ publiziert zwei Versuche von Historikern, Lehren aus dem Gazakrieg auf Begriffe zu bringen...
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In the forum on political economy, Jonathon Catlin asks what a public debate about the Frankfurt School's legacy among prominent former students of Martin Jay—the "Berkeley School"—tells us about the future relationship between political economy and intellectual history. @joncatlin.bsky.social
The Berkeley School: Critical Theory, Political Economy, and the Future of Intellectual History
by Jonathon Catlin This essay is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
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Ich bin auf jeden Fall sehr froh, in einer Reihe u.a. mit @adamtooze.bsky.social, @dirkmoses.bsky.social, @hahauenstein.bsky.social und @marwecki.bsky.social zu stehen. Eigentlich hätte auch der Redaktion @faznet.bsky.social auffallen müssen, dass sich hier jemand gegen einen Strohmann ficht...
