Mike Joseph
Stories of Genocide
This discussion on genocide in the age of the nation state was first published in Planet, the Welsh Internationalist in March 2015. It is just as relevant today. This year’s centenary of the Armenian Genocide, and seventieth anniversary of liberation of the Nazi death...
British Mandate Palestine policy created today's inequitable Israel-Palestine conflict. Two days before British Palestine became Israel, on 12 May 1948 my uncle’s Palmach brigade conquered and cleared Bureir and neighbouring Najd, Sumsum, Huleiqat and Kaukaba. All...
A Family in War, Holocaust and Palestinian Nakba through a Century of Letters Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth 20 Ebrill 2020 18:30 National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 20 April 2020 18:30 Escaping Germany Four generations of one...
"Outspoken and memorable" In February 2017, Rebecca Ruth Gould, a lecturer at Bristol University was condemned for 'one of the worst cases of holocaust denial' by a former Conservative MP, Eric Pickles. When he left the Commons for the Lords, Theresa May appointed...
"poisoning the whole of Western political discourse" Christians and Israel tells a strong story and has received an equally strong welcome (find the article here). Of many comments, here are four from contrasting backgrounds, informed by Christianity, Judaism and...
Today the UK government is one of several that deny that Armenians suffered genocide in 1915. Yet remarkably, the UK government acknowledged and denounced the Armenian Genocide as early as 1915. In parliament This was how Foreign Office Minister Lord Robert Cecil...