The author claims Australia’s 1990s debates blurred the legal UN Genocide Convention standard with broader moral and rhetorical uses. That muddled framing spread through Anglophone academia and media, enabling today’s routine 'genocide' allegations in Israel–Palestine and beyond.
— It suggests academic activism in one country can quietly rewrite legal and moral categories abroad, reshaping war‑crimes rhetoric and policy judgments.
Helen Dale
2025.02.11
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Helen Dale says she was a participant in Australia’s 'genocide definition' debate, criticizes Robert Manne, and argues Australian scholars 'muddying the waters' now influence U.S. and Israel debates.
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