A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
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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