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A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
April 17, 2026·39 minconversationalpolitics
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In a reflective and deeply personal conversation on *The New Yorker Radio Hour*, historian Omer Bartov, an Israeli-born scholar of genocide and the Holocaust, discusses his evolving critique of Israel’s policies, culminating in his public characterization of Israel’s war in Gaza as a geno
In a reflective and deeply personal conversation on *The New Yorker Radio Hour*, historian Omer Bartov, an Israeli-born scholar of genocide and the Holocaust, discusses his evolving critique of Israel’s policies, culminating in his public characterization of Israel’s war in Gaza as a geno
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Omer Bartov
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Omer BartovDavid RemnickYitzhak Rabin
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Israel, What Went Wrong?by Omer Bartov
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
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