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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses.bsky.social
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Teaches at the City College of New York, edits the Journal of Genocide Research. www.dirkmoses.com

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Today in Stockholm
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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-...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Just out in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law, Raef Zreik’s review article on The Problems of Genocide brill.com/view/journal...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Tonight with @marieberry.bsky.social, we discuss global conflict @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social korbel.du.edu/event/the-ne...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Just out journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
1946: Imperialism: Road to Suicide. www.commentary.org/articles/mor...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Call for papers think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I answer critics of “Education after Gaza” here. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Postdoc binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
@hahauenstein.bsky.social interviewed me on his splendid podcast about the pitfalls of German memory culture youtu.be/UO54Cjg3-7Q
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The intellectual historian Camilla Boisen has written an extensive review article of my and Lauren Benton‘s books on war and genocide, bringing different fields into conversation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Now in Turkish, my short essay on the crisis of Holocaust memory occasioned by its conscription in a genocidal permanent security campaign birikimdergisi.com/guncel/12329...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
When in Tallinn last week, I spoke with @andresreimann.bsky.social from Sickle magazine about the concept of genocide, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The photographer opted for the haggard existentialist look but/and we had an exacting discussion. novaator.err.ee/1609884874/g...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Hi Hedwig, thanks for your thoughts. Here is what I said below. I don’t see a problem here.The problem is that Holocaust memory has been used to justify the slaughter in Gaza and that’s why the public is losing faith in it and in the media coverage. Quite simple
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
After I lodged a complaint, the author was compelled to accuracy, if only by contriving an illogical sentence in order to retain his snark and appearance of dignity. But the paper has issued a correction. It knows one of their journalists was playing fast & loose with the truth.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I say that I deplore the ebbing of Holocaust memory here www.youtube.com/live/8YPsC8L.... Yet this newspaper article suggests that I welcome it. @Zeit.de needs to correct the record.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Speaking this afternoon in Tallinn on international law and genocide
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
My “Education after Gaza” essay in the Berlin Review has now appeared in Arabic thanks to Yassin al Haj Saleh aljumhuriya.net/ar/2025/12/0...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Speaking at Hiroshima University tonight NYC time via zoom at about history about the present. Thanks to @dahlia-cs.bsky.social for the invitation. nerps.org/2025/10/14/n...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A theory of permanent security by AI Trainin in 1943
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Last week I spoke about Germany with Ted Knudsen in his lively podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
1931: on the morality and efficacy of bombing women and children scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Open rank position in politics at the City College of New York. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I discuss the genocide concept in my bad German here. Recorded in one take so I could not clean it up. FWIW www.deutschlandfunk.de/genozid-in-g...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
‚we suggest that the qualification as genocide expresses a profound loss & longing for justice that is not only…insufficiently captured by individual human rights, crimes v humanity, or war crimes. We use the term “the common” as a concept to denote this loss.‘ voelkerrechtsblog.org/whats-in-a-n...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
www.npr.org/2025/09/25/g...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The sadism is deeply buried & often surfaces-as you know. Consider the beloved Max & Moritz series. Jewish emigre scholars like Norbert Elias could see it for obvious reasons, esp with they ended up in the Anglosphere & experienced culture of restraint in all classes. Compare the queuing cultures 1/
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The @journalgenocide.bsky.social has a new Roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies. My introduction is freely available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Teaching this brilliant book that is inadvertently about the origin of genocide press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The debate about Israeli genocide in Gaza turns in large measure on the genocide-Holocaust relationship. I try to tease them out in this chapter in Cambridge History of the Holocaust cambridge.org/core/books/abs… Here are the first two pages.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Lifton at 99. He kindly subjected himself to my email inquiries while I was working on his papers at the NY Public Library for my book, The Problems of Genocide. He features as the one who got it right, rather than Lemkin & Genocide Studies
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Ronen, why are you citing Arendt and not Lemkin who wrote like his in 1944. Moreover, the law talks about „in whole or in part.“
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Global War on Terror & Omer Bartov in 2006. The "teeming multitudes" and the "surging masses" of the global South, "banging on the closing gates of the West," with their "fundamentalist extremist ideologies poisoning the minds of millions upon millions." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Every now and then I post quotes from Raphael Lemkin. Today's is this from _Axis Rule in Occupied Europe_.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We (Simon Maghakyan/Oxford and Laurajane Smith/ANU) are looking for papers for an Oxford Handbook of Heritage and Security. Please attached CFP for details.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
It relates to this important book which I discuss in The Problems of Genocide www.abebooks.com/first-editio...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Something I found in the CJH papers a few years ago.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I’ve just published this comparison of the Vietnam and Gaza genocide debates. The former frames the latter. But the #ICJ has ways to escape the frame if it’s willing to think outside the box link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We are speaking about the future of German memory culture tonight in Frankfurt www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The Journal of Genocide has published a special issue on “Navigating Post-Genocide Social Relations: Memory, Power and Legacy in Rwanda” edited by Christopher P. Davey & Nicole Fox www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgr20/2...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I explain here how genocide in law was distinguished from genocidal warfare so that states could more easily engage in the latter. Thanks to my Oslo hosts for the invitation and opportunity
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Our workshop at CEU has started
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We have written a thing about the source of the violation of the anti-conquest norm @nilsgilman.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-new-poli...
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