Journal of Genocide Research

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Considering the historical linkage made in Darwish’s poem – words frequently shared by Armenian and Palestinian activists – this essay offers preliminary comparisons of genocidal warfare used by Israel and Azerbaijan over the last 18 months. While indiscriminate aerial bombardment was used in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabagh (ANK) and Gaza, both offensives used another weapon of mass destruction – starvation. Admittedly, in the midst of one of the largest global protests in solidarity with Palestine, Artsakh has not been understood as a possible model for Gaza, nor has Gaza been analyzed as a possible model for Artsakh. Darwish’s poem enacts multidirectional memory that opposes competition and instead considers memory to be “subject to ongoing negotiation, cross-referencing, and borrowing.”Footnote⁴ Comparing memories of extreme violence can form a bulwark against genocide denialism and plant the seeds of solidarity within the global struggle against mass violence. Tapping multidirectional memory makes visible the continued use of starvation crime which is gaining new traction in genocidal warfare despite legal prohibitions.

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Obviously, Charny’s main concern, reflecting his commitment to the State of Israel, is with Shaw’s application of the idea of genocide to Palestine. Shaw pointed out that “none of the ‘revisionist’ historians who now dominate the field doubts that deliberate Israeli policies made a substantial contribution to the destruction of the larger part of historical Arab society in Palestine.”
Shaw argued that this was true whether the 1948 removal was the result of Israel’s taking advantage of the “opportunity” to remove it, as Morris continues to argue, or also of extensive “pre-planning,” as Ilan Pappe’s more recent research suggests.41 In this light, Shaw proposed that, within the framework of a broad Lemkinian concept (in terms of which “ethnic cleansing” can be considered genocide), there is “prima facie a strong case for considering the [1948] events partially within a genocide framework.”

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