"Ассоциация" "исследователей" "геноцида" Татьяна Глезер пишет в Фейсбуке --
https://www.facebook.com/tatiana.glezer.7/posts/pfbid0Aic1nKiMZnWcyPEe8uhLk3HGEMiwLgXSAkVF81R29W7iEJUtecDbLPMKTb9SV3FHl :
"Вы ведь уже читали историю о том, как сначала (несколько дней назад) мировые новости вынесли на первые полосы новость о том, что ведущая организация ученых по изучению геноцида признала, что Израиль совершает геноцид в Газе?
А потом Сало Айзенберг - исследователь и блоггер - взял и зарегистрировался на сайте этой организации за 30 евро. У него не потребовали ни дипломов, ни научных работ - только работающую кредитную карту. Он написал у себя об этом в твиттере, и в организации сразу появились новые участники - Адольф Гитлер", Mo Cookie, а также Emperor Palpatine и другие.
Также оказалось, что в голосовании принимали участие только 129 человек, из которых проголосовали "за" - 108. А всего в организации - 500 человек, 80 из которых базируются в Ираке - известном центре исследований о геноциде (это шутка, если что).
Самое притягательное в этих вещах - это то, что не нужно тратить недели или месяцы работы на исследования. Все это - лежит на поверхности.
Ужасно, что такие издания, как немецкий Deutche Welle, не говоря о The Guardian и BBC, вынесли это на первые полосы.
Полная статья - на сайте The Free Press. У кого есть Х - подпишитесь на Айзенберга, он там подробно описывает, что он сделал (ниже - ссылки на все).
Я делаю исследования и обзоры; и буду делать их в любом случае, но если вы хотите поддержать меня и мою работу, то мой патреон tatiana_glezer."
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И дает ссылку на твиттер-аккаунт Айзенберга --
https://x.com/Aizenberg55 и на статью в The Free Press --
https://www.thefp.com/p/another-reason-not-to-trust-the-experts :
Another Reason Not to Trust the `Experts'
The International Association of Genocide Scholars calls itself a body of experts, but joining requires only a form and a fee. Members include parody accounts like ‘Mo Cookie' and ‘Emperor Palpatine.’
By The Editors
09.04.25 — The Big Read
One of the great lessons of the past decade is that when you read a variation of “experts say” in a headline, you ought to think twice and for yourself.
This week, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) voted on a resolution that accused Israel of committing genocide in its war against Hamas. Like moths to a flame, the mainstream press ran wild with the story of the organization’s declaration.
“Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, Leading Scholars’ Association Says,” ran the headline in The Washington Post.
The Guardian quoted the president of the association, Melanie O’Brien, declaring that the resolution represented “a definitive statement from experts in the field of genocide studies that what is going on on the ground in Gaza is genocide.” In another interview with ABC News Australia, O’Brien boasted that the resolution passed with nearly 90 percent support.
The BBC’s headline read: “Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza, World’s Leading Experts Say.”
The problem for these publications is that if you kick the tires—even slightly—it becomes obvious that the resolution is a sham, top to bottom.
Let’s start with the organization itself. According to O’Brien, the members of her organization “mainly consist of people who are academics, so scholarly experts, but our membership is also made up of people who come from different communities within the field of genocide prevention, education, and punishment.”
On Tuesday evening, Salo Aizenberg, a board member of Honest Reporting and contributor to NGO Monitor, tested that proposition. After exploring the IAGS website, he found that he could become a member of the organization with just a $30 contribution. “This organization that purports to be a leading organization of scholars is open to anyone who is interested,” he told The Free Press.
After Aizenberg posted about his new membership to X, others joined in on the fun. Newly minted genocide scholars now include Emperor Palpatine, the villain of the Star Wars franchise; Adolf Hitler of Gaza City; and our favorite, “Mo Cookie,” who turns out to be the Cookie Monster wearing a green scarf with the Hamas logo.
IAGS’s open membership is important because as Aizenberg learned in his research on the website, 80 of the 500 members of IAGS all claim to be based in Iraq—a country not known for universities with robust genocide scholarship. But it’s even worse than that. Only 108 out of the organization’s 500 members actually voted for the resolution. So contra O’Brien, only 21.6 percent of the IAGS supported it, not nearly 90 percent. That figure represents 108 out of the 129 people who bothered voting for the resolution at all.
What’s more: The process appears rigged from the start.
One IAGS member, Sara Brown, the author of Gender and Genocide in Rwanda, posted on X that the leadership of the organization prevented members from filing comments criticizing the resolution before the vote. “We were promised a town hall, which is a common practice for controversial resolutions,” she wrote, “but the president of the association reversed that. The association has also refused to disclose who were the authors of the resolution.”
After reading through the resolution, it’s easy to understand why the identities of the authors were shielded from the other members of the group. It’s riddled with inaccuracies and deceptive language. For example, the first paragraph asserts that Israel has killed “59,000 adults and children in Gaza,” without distinguishing between civilians and Hamas fighters.
The resolution makes no mention of how Hamas places weapons caches in homes, schools, and hospitals. Nor does it bother to note that Hamas fighters wear plain clothes. It fails to acknowledge the elaborate and massive tunnel network underneath Gaza, and how the portals to this subterranean city are often situated in residential buildings.
Another source for the resolution is Francesca Albanese, the discredited UN special rapporteur. In December she posted on X that “many Jewish people worldwide, unconditionally in love with Israel, live a lie. Premised upon the invisibilization/erasure of the Palestinians, Israel’s founding ideology (and lie) is now leading to a genocide. What a disgraceful epilogue.”
Whatever one wants to call this, it’s not scholarship. But it’s also—at this point—to be expected. To read a headline with “[Insert Topic], Experts Say” today begs disbelief on the part of the reader, in part because of stories like this one. Activists are dressed up as scholars and subject matter experts, and their words are taken as gospel in news reports.
Today, professors, journalists, and so-called human rights organizations enlist themselves in an information war to defame the world’s only Jewish state. They conduct their campaign even though it is helping Hamas, the authors of the October 7, 2023 pogrom, survive and continue its reign of terror in Gaza.
No wonder Hamas hailed the IAGS resolution in a statement on Monday evening. An organization whose explicit goal is to commit genocide against Israel and the Jewish people has been recast as the victims of a genocide by the country trying to prevent it.
As the genocide scholar Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt told The Free Press: “These scholars are politicizing the field. . . . Their selective criticism (and failure to condemn the originators of the entire conflagration) speaks volumes.”
Lipstadt is right, and we’ll go a step further: Since there’s such consensus among so-called scholars, IAGS ought to release the names of Israel’s “genocide” accusers.