One of the first genocide scholars to recognise Israel’s genocide. Author of ‘The New Age of Genocide’, and ‘What is Genocide?’. Sociology/IR professor, IBEI Barcelona/University of Sussex. martinshaw.org, martinshawx.substack.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3muzhnoin7c2bI analyse Miliband’s statement line by line—bottom line, they’re sanctioning the settlements, companies and individuals not the occupying state or the IDF. While Israel is retaliating directly against the British state. https://martinshawx.substack.com/p/ed-milibands-statement-full-line?r=ww0br&utm_medium=ios08 Sep 2026 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzhnoin7c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3muhvg34nhs2pI’ve written a piece for History Workshop reflecting on mass activism and direct action - as Marral says, we first met when a group of members of the late 1960s LSE Socialist Society supported today’s Palestine activists in the School, who were under threat from the LSE authorities. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhvg34nhs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mtwnpzvlyc2aMy commentary on the controversial open letter to Iranian political prisoners. https://martinshawx.substack.com/p/no-binary-between-freedom-and-resistance https://martinshawx.substack.com/p/no-binary-between-freedom-and-resistance?r=ww0br&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=split25 Aug 2026 20:26 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwnpzvlyc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mtjahtmoas2oMy new article explains what Burnham and Miliband should really be doing about Israel—breaking the UK’s alliance with the genocidal state, not pleading with it to change course; sanctioning the state, not just the settlers and individual ministers. https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/the-uk-must-break-with-israel20 Aug 2026 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjahtmoas2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mspxluhw7k26“What the physical record shows is a military that could confine its violence to a single room when it chose to, and elsewhere chose otherwise.” - Israel discriminated between Christian and other areas in the degree of “precision” it used in targeting. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Aug 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mspxluhw7k26https://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3msgrqh67b22lRaz Segal and I were the first genocide scholars to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Unlike me, he paid a serious price for speaking out, losing a prestigious position that he had just been offered. But now, 2 years later, he has won financial compensation. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/06/professor-israel-gaza-university-of-minnesota https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/06/professor-israel-gaza-university-of-minnesota?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other06 Aug 2026 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgrqh67b22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mrrhpmm7z22jMy new open-access article in Genocide Studies and Prevention examines the neglected question of OCCUPATION AND GENOCIDE, from Raphael Lemkin’s Axis Rule in Occupied Europe to contemporary Palestine. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol20/iss1/629 Jul 2026 08:05 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrrhpmm7z22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mqr4qm4cnc2eMy new podcast on 99 Zu Eins covers why we are in a “new age of genocide”, the relationships of war and genocide, the “structure of genocide” in Palestine, and my views on Omer Bartov’s new book on Israel and Dirk Moses’ The Problems of Genocide—and much more, especially Gaza. youtu.be/5OA6MrAKRGY https://youtu.be/5OA6MrAKRGY16 Jul 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqr4qm4cnc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mpqc5m5m2k2kI wrote in detail about ‘Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel' for Byline Times. Gaza is the sharpest edge of Starmer’s domestic as well as international legacy. Fail to address it, and Burnham could end up as the UK’s Kamala Harris. https://bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/why-andy-burnham-must-break-with-israel/03 Jul 2026 10:02 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqc5m5m2k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mogc7qtfm22rI examined the strange timeline of the Palestine Action ban presented by the Court of Appeal - focusing on the missing Trump connection. https://open.substack.com/pub/martinshawx/p/the-strange-timeline-of-the-court?r=ww0br&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=title16 Jun 2026 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mogc7qtfm22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mof76ujrxc2iI wrote about how Brexit unleashed the racism and violence that now threatens Britain with a Farage regime, and how Labour’s complicity in Gaza has divided the forces that can resist it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jun 2026 06:45 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mof76ujrxc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mnk46lbxkk2zAndy Burnham (in the Guardian) burning his bridges by failing to express a clear moral condemnation of Israel. His weasel words suggest he could be Labour's Kamala Harris, needlessly alienating the left and Muslim voters that are needed to defeat Farage - as they were to beat Trump.05 Jun 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnk46lbxkk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mmwcpfqpqs2jThis reply to @jonathanliew.bsky.social accurately pinpoints the weakness of his alternative to continued engagement with X. Read their following tweets - exactly my experience too. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 May 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmwcpfqpqs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mmwcia5u5c2jDisappointingly simplistic of Jonathan to dismiss X and its progressive users so sweepingly, especially when he has no credible alternative and admits this place is no substitute. I use it for Gaza / genocide and it remains an essential point of connection and source of information. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 May 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmwcia5u5c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mm57cvxqgk2vICC prosecutor requests further warrants against Israeli ministers: ‘the charges against Smotrich include forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, the transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 May 2026 15:35 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm57cvxqgk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mll3o4fvbk2nI’ve written about Omer Bartov’s book, Israel: What Went Wrong? https://open.substack.com/pub/martinshawx/p/israel-did-it-go-wrong?r=ww0br&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=title11 May 2026 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mll3o4fvbk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3ml3lo3lm622lAs European leaders proclaim a values-based order in Yerevan, my article on the long shadow of the Gaza genocide in Europe’s crisis reminds us that as long as it is tied to Israel, Europe will not succeed. https://share.google/ujYNzP078nRVUC6lC05 May 2026 06:46 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3lo3lm622lhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mknalvbgjc2bI just wrote to airlines facilitating racist and cruel 'one in one out' deportations. Join me, and write one here using this tool: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-racist-and-cruel-one-in-one-out-deportations?source=bluesky&29 Apr 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknalvbgjc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mkdfaem7ds24I’m speaking in Brighton on the Gaza genocide and its large political and geopolitical consequences25 Apr 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdfaem7ds24https://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mkd6mejjy22nI wrote for the Berlin Review about the long shadow of genocide in Europe's crisis. Drawing on the experience of when Europeans confronted US power in the 1980s, I argue that we need movements from below to challenge our complicit elites. https://blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/2026-05/martin-shaw-the-long-shadow-of-genocide25 Apr 2026 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkd6mejjy22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mk6lo3zzr225If you’re in the UK, this C4 documentary on the Suez war that broke Britain’s imperial power is well worth watching, not least for its premonitions of America’s failure in the attack on Iran - like Suez undertaken together with Israel. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/suez-24-hours-that-broke-the-british-empire https://www.channel4.com/programmes/suez-24-hours-that-broke-the-british-empire?cntsrc=social_share_ios_suez_24_hours_that_broke_the_british_empire23 Apr 2026 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6lo3zzr225https://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mjrwpve7t22fI look forward to contributing to this impressive lecture series on Genocide, Settler Colonialism, Modernity’ at the University of Potsdam. https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/allg-soziologie/index/lecture-series18 Apr 2026 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrwpve7t22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mjqqfnlii22aDirk addresses the changing significance of ‘genocide’: ‘There is no mistaking the changing winds in the language of transgression. It is illuminating liberal permanent security as genocidal, thereby repoliticizing a concept whose foundations were flawed in its codification in the 1940s.’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Apr 2026 05:46 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjqqfnlii22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mjes3hzzu22s‘The U.S. and Israel have employed so-called “double-tap strikes” in their campaign in Iran. The attacks, which involve aircraft bombing a site and then conducting further strikes, show a callous disregard for civilians by the US & Israel, & may show a pattern of seeking to inflict harm on Iranians’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Apr 2026 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjes3hzzu22shttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mj5nsu4tkc27It’s good that @davidallengreen.bsky.social wrote about this as a ‘genocidal’ threat. I’d just point out that Prospect has never published an article recognising the *actual* genocide that Israel has committed in Gaza. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Apr 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5nsu4tkc27https://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3misyrmeqis2eThe excellent Declassified putting the mainstream media to shame with a full expose of the role of UK bases in the US’s illegal war. Essential viewing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Apr 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3misyrmeqis2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/martinshaw.bsky.social/post/3mioxtwrggk2dThis is reported in the US press but will the BBC or even Channel Four news mention it? [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Apr 2026 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:6eiancdpzjzxlfmfplhad52v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mioxtwrggk2d