Genocide - Quillette

A burnt home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. A sign reads "Ofir Shoshani was brutally murdered in this house."

An Interrupted Genocide

The widespread reluctance to describe the atrocities of 7 October correctly is an impediment to peace.

Jeffrey Herf

18 Jul 2024 · 11 min read

Welcome to Canada, Where Everyone’s a Génocidaire

Canadians are being told that they’ve perpetrated multiple genocides. So why aren’t their leaders being tried at The Hague?

Jonathan Kay

31 Oct 2022 · 5 min read

Face to Face with the Auschwitz Memorial Twitter Project

The Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a

Geoffrey C. Kabat

5 Nov 2021 · 10 min read

The Ultimate ‘Concept Creep’: How a Canadian Inquiry Strips the Word ‘Genocide’ of Meaning

All societies lie to themselves about genocide. But the nature of the lies change over time.

Jonathan Kay

3 Jun 2019 · 9 min read

The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History

For the most influential historians who held positions of power in major French institutions, the French Revolution was not a research topic but an origin myth—the heart of their secular faith’s cosmology.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

10 Mar 2019 · 18 min read

The al-Nusra Front pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2013. Image of men waving black flag in Syria.

No, the Syrian Civil War is Not Like Jews fleeing Nazi Persecution

If one genuinely cares about the civilians who are suffering, they would want to stop the war at any cost, rather than fan the flames further.

Sumantra Maitra

23 Dec 2016 · 6 min read