Dirk Moses

Nice piece by @profpaulpoast.bsky.social that cites my @wpr.bsky.social column on how the Genocide Convention distinguishes genocidal intent from "military necessity" — just as its drafters intended after World War II, as @dirkmoses.bsky.social has shown. The language of "as such" was no accident.

With @sashaetkind.bsky.social, we have established a book series on the Politics of the Anthropocene. Send us your proposals. www.aup.nl/en/series/po...

Regarding the #Naza film and debate about war crimes vs genocide, the debate has been underway for a while, based on the documentary makers research, I published this in July 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1... People are beginning to understand the illusion of the war/genocide distinction.

Um es anders zu wenden: kritische Theorie kann man auch wunderbar mobilisieren, um antideutschen (antimuslimischen) Rassismus und seine schrägen Allianzen offenzulegen blnreview.de/ausgaben/202...

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 ...

„…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...

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

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

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"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...

Just out in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law, Raef Zreik’s review article on The Problems of Genocide brill.com/view/journal...

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.’

"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

Just out journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Postdocs in Venice www.unive.it/pag/28536/

The theory of #permanentsecurity summed up perfectly. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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...

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...

1946: Imperialism: Road to Suicide. www.commentary.org/articles/mor...

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.

„Was schmerzhafte Selbstbefragung sein sollte, wurde zur herrischen Geste.“

"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...

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

Call for papers think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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...

Now on FirstView: Camilla Boisen reflects on the stories we tell ourselves about peace and genocide in her review essay of A. Dirk Moses' @dirkmoses.bsky.social The Problems of Genocide and Lauren Benton's They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence

Dirk Moses senses ‘an air of desperation’ in recent responses of the pro-Statsrason thinkers. ‘Their catechism is buckling under the reality that the German public—including even some functionaries of the German state—can clearly see.’

Very important point by Dirk Moses (shortened by me): "Germany’s fixation on the Nazi regime locks actors into a catastrophic binary of absolute innocence and absolute evil. Coming to terms with the Nazi past can't mean adopting its categorization of the world by simply inverting the value signs."

I answer critics of “Education after Gaza” here. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Postdoc binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Powerful reflecitons on Gaza and German memory culture, with much to think about for people in other countries, in this interview with @dirkmoses.bsky.social. A must-watch.

It was good to talk with inimitable @hahauenstein.bsky.social about the failure of #Erinnerungskultur

@hahauenstein.bsky.social interviewed me on his splendid podcast about the pitfalls of German memory culture youtu.be/UO54Cjg3-7Q

2 postdocs at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen University, Norway: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...