ACCUSATIONS OF GENOCIDE: Assessing Israel’s Right to Self-Defense

The genocide accusations made against Israel today are not new. They have a history going back to 1948, and genocide charges became increasingly common with the rise of the PLO. To the present day, the accusation has been used to justify terror operations against Israel and to delegitimize the Jewish State. And yet the logic is generally flawed. The accusation depends on everything from redefinitions of genocide itself to the falsification of evidence to the repetition of false narratives.

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Dr. Norman J.W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. He specializes in the history of the Holocaust, war crimes trials, and twentieth-century diplomacy. He is the author, co-author, or editor of ten books including: Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2007); The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews (2013); US Intelligence and the Nazis (2005) and Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays Across Disciplines (2018), as well as two books on the early history of Israel. Since October 7, he has worked on the history and argumentation of genocide accusations made against Israel.