Dirk Moses
@dirkmoses.bsky.social
Teaches at the City College of New York, edits the Journal of Genocide Research. www.dirkmoses.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 PM
@hahauenstein.bsky.social interviewed me on his splendid podcast about the pitfalls of German memory culture youtu.be/UO54Cjg3-7Q
January 26, 2026 at 12:27 AM
@hahauenstein.bsky.social interviewed me on his splendid podcast about the pitfalls of German memory culture youtu.be/UO54Cjg3-7Q
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...
January 16, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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...
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...
birikimdergisi.com/guncel/12329...
January 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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...
birikimdergisi.com/guncel/12329...
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...
December 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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...
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
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
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.
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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.
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.
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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.
Speaking this afternoon in Tallinn on international law and genocide
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Speaking this afternoon in Tallinn on international law and genocide
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...
aljumhuriya.net/ar/2025/12/0...
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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...
aljumhuriya.net/ar/2025/12/0...
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...
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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...
A theory of permanent security by AI Trainin in 1943
October 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A theory of permanent security by AI Trainin in 1943
Last week I spoke about Germany with Ted Knudsen in his lively podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
October 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Last week I spoke about Germany with Ted Knudsen in his lively podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
1931: on the morality and efficacy of bombing women and children scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
1931: on the morality and efficacy of bombing women and children scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Open rank position in politics at the City College of New York. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Open rank position in politics at the City College of New York. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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...
October 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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...
‚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...
September 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
‚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...
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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/
September 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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/
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....
September 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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....
Teaching this brilliant book that is inadvertently about the origin of genocide press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
September 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Teaching this brilliant book that is inadvertently about the origin of genocide press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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.
September 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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.
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
September 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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