Professor Omer Bartov's Book Argues Zionism Evolved From Humanitarian Movement to Militarized State Ideology

Professor Omer Bartov's book argues Zionism evolved from humanitarian movement to militarized state ideology

When Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Omer Bartov was growing up in Tel Aviv, he played among the rubble of abandoned cemeteries, Arab houses and Palestinian property.But as a child, "we had no idea what it was, and nobody really told us," Bartov recalled in an interview with The Herald. Decades later, he learned that they were remnants of the Nakba - a period of mass displacement of Palestinians that occurred during the 1948 Arab-Isr…

JFJFP‘Zionism led to genocide. It must disappear’: Omer Bartov’s new book explores where, exactly, Israel went wrong – JFJFP

Protesters holding a banner at a mass demonstration in Berlin against Israel’s war in Gaza in September 2025 Etan Nechin writes in Haaretz on 24 April 2026 from Cambridge, Massachusetts: In May 2024, the Israeli-born historian Omer Bartov concluded that what he was watching in Gaza met the definition of genocide under the 1948 UN Convention. It was not a conclusion he wanted to reach. He had publicly resisted using the word despite criticism fro…