Professor Gideon Greif
Greif, whose
Holocaust research is lauded as groundbreaking, has been accused of attempting
to whitewash the mass murder of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serb forces in
1995.
How a
Holocaust Historian Became a Genocide Denier Once respected for his research on Auschwitz, Israeli historian
Gideon Greif now promotes falsehoods, propaganda and
pseudo-scholarship in the service of ultranationalist Serb genocide
deniers. It is a deeply troubling story.
By Menachem Rosensaft, Haaretz, February 1, 2022
Israeli Historian to "Correct" Controversial Bosnia Report after Being Accused
of Genocide Denial
The Israeli
historian accused of genocide denial says he will revise a controversial war
crimes report he co-wrote on behalf of Bosnian Serb nationalists -- an attempt
critics are calling damage control after a months-long controversy over the
report into the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. By Sam Sokol,
Haaretz,
January 19, 2022
Germany cancels award to Israeli Historian Accused
of Bosnian Genocide denial The German
government has reversed its decision to honor an Israeli Holocaust historian who
has come under fire for denial of the Bosnian genocide of 1992-1995. By Sam
Sokol, Haaretz, December 30,
2021
Rewriting History Like Goebbels: Why a Resurgent Far Right Is Whitewashing
Genocide in the Balkans
Like turning
Eichmann into a folk hero: How far right nationalists in the Balkans are
rehabilitating war criminals and their atrocities, from the perpetrators of the
Holocaust to Srebrenica genocidaires, and why.
By
Menachem Rosensaft,
Haaretz, December 19, 2021
Israeli Historian Denounced for Srebrenica Genocide Denial
Following a wave of criticism over a report which denies the genocide in Srebrenica, led
by Greif and commissioned by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb-run entity of
Republika Srpska, Germany postponed the ceremony until further notice and said
it is reconsidering whether to award the academic.
By Mersiha Gadzo, Al Jazeera,
December 3, 2021
Germany
Reconsiders Award Ceremony for Israeli Historian Accused of Genocide Denial Menachem Rosensaft, Associate Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the World
Jewish Congress (WJC), who also teaches genocide law at Columbia Law School and
wrote a scathing response to Greif’s report this summer, said that all Greif’s
work constituted was a “denial of a genocide in order to carry out the agenda of
the folks of Republika Srpska who commissioned the report. It has
no historical or legal validity,” he said, stating that the report “studiously
and deliberately ignored” all of the legal decisions regarding the massacre by
the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia “which found conclusively…that the massacre was indeed a
genocide under international law.” By Samuel Sokol,
November 1, 2021
Deceptive Report Escalates Srebrenica Genocide Denial Campaign
He stressed that the
report “single-mindedly rejects or ignores” findings of international tribunals
that the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in the area of
Srebrenica, as well as the “simultaneous forcible deportation from there of more
than 25,000 Bosniak women, children, and elderly men” by Bosnian Serb forces
constituted genocide. It also “repeatedly casts the Bosniaks as
aggressors and the Bosnian Serbs as victims in a rewriting of history
reminiscent of Third Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ justifications
for Nazi German anti-Semitism,” Rosensaft wrote. He analyzed some
of the main arguments from the controversial report and concluded that “if a
student of mine at Columbia or Cornell Law School were to present this type of
argument in a term paper in my course on the law of genocide, they would not
receive a passing grade.” By Menachem Rosensaft, July 29, 2021