Holocaust Scholar Says Israel’s Actions in Gaza Constitute Genocide
By Alan Singer
Dr. Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American and a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. Bartov was born in Israel and served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and he had postings as part of the occupying force on the West Bank and in Gaza. In 1976, Bartov was severely wounded in a training accident while a member of the Israel Defense Force, the IDF. In a July 15, 2025 op-ed in the New York Times, Dr. Bartov explained why he believes Israel is engaged in genocide in Gaza.
Bartov is a globally recognized expert on war crimes and the European Holocaust. He joins a large number of experts in genocide studies and international law who have reached the same conclusion. He believes to deny genocide in Gaza “will cause unmitigated damage not just to the people of Gaza and Israel but also to the system of international law established in the wake of the horrors of the Holocaust, designed to prevent such atrocities from happening ever again.” He describes it as a “threat to the very foundations of the moral order on which we all depend.”
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Alan Singer is a historian and teacher educator at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. His most recent books are Social Studies for Secondary Schools, 5th edition (Routledge, 2024) and Class-Conscious Coal Miners (SUNY Press, 2024). Blogs, tweets, essays, interviews, and e-blasts present his views and not those of Hofstra University.