The Fire These Times 193/ Intent and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg
For episode 193, Elia Ayoub is joined by Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Goldberg is among the most vocal Israeli historians of the Holocaust to have called Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide. In 2024, he wrote a paper for the Journal of Genocide Research exploring how the question of ‘intent’ is used in discussions around genocides, including the Gaza one. They also get into how genocide is often preceded by claims of self-defense.
The combined two-parter episode is already available on our Patreon for free.
Articles by Goldberg:
Amos Goldberg: 'What is happening in Gaza is a genocide because Gaza does not exist anymore'
Haaretz: There's No Auschwitz in Gaza. But It's Still Genocide.
Books by Goldberg:
Other Links:
Elia’s newsletter Hauntologies includes articles on “the Ghosts of Israel’s Futures”
Lee Mordechai: Witnessing the Gaza War
The Fire These Times: The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory with Daniel Voskoboynik
The Fire These Times: Remembering the Nakba, Imagining the Future w/ Dana El Kurd
Read Abubaker Abed’s “The Unbearable Pain of Leaving Gaza”
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Credits:
Elia Ayoub (host, producer, sound editor, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).