Gaza, Genocide, and Academic Freedom
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:11th May '26
Should be back in stock very soon
This book analyzes Israeli military actions in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, offering a rigorous assessment through the lens of genocide studies. Drawing on established theoretical frameworks, the author demonstrates how these events align with recognized definitions of genocide, challenging readers to confront difficult questions about collective violence and responsibility. The analysis explores how Israeli actions are shaped by historical trauma, particularly the Holocaust, and fears that Palestinian control of the same area would threaten Jewish existence.
Through meticulous research, the book reveals the mechanisms enabling mass violence: identity polarization, dehumanization, and psychological denial that preserves moral self-image. In a parallel investigation, the author documents widespread attempts to suppress academic and public discourse on Israel-Palestine relations. Through carefully documented case studies involving academic censorship, professional retaliation, deportations, and institutional interference, the book makes a powerful case for protecting free inquiry as essential to understanding and addressing complex geopolitical conflicts.
This volume will appeal to scholars specializing in genocide and related forms of group violence, students learning about these topics, and anyone interested in academic freedom issues and current events associated with Gaza.
Happily for his readers—who with his new book, Gaza, Genocide, and Academic Freedom, should be legion—David Moshman’s clarity of writing matches the breadth of his learning and the depth of his insight. And his intellectual candor is matched by his moral courage. The publication of this book is a major intervention in the public discourse about the crisis in Palestine/Israel. Moshman’s dispassionate analysis will leave few readers unmoved, whether in sympathy or outrage. Gaza, Genocide, and Academic Freedomsets a high scholarly standardandwill be the go-to book for years to come.
--Roger Bergman, professor emeritus at Creighton University, founder and long-time director of its Justice & Peace Studies program,and author of Preventing Unjust War.
Gaza, Genocide, and Academic Freedom has taught me much about genocide, including the simple notion that a central feature of genocide is denial that there is indeed a genocide. In a lifetime of work, David links individual cognition and psychology to the larger civic and political world, promoting “collaborative dialogue” as a centerpiece of democracy that is so needed now to confront not only this genocide but all the issues of our day.…We haven’t stopped the madness of the genocide, even as it manifests differently from month to month. But this book helps us to keep working at it by speaking out, teaching about it, and resisting censorship.
--from the foreword by Mary Beth Tinker, plaintiff in Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) and lifelong advocate for student freedom of expression
ISBN: 9781041166924
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 400g
118 pages