Israel Has Built a Vast Ecosystem of Genocidal Practices in Occupied Palestine

PALESTINE - ISRAEL, 16 Sep 2024

Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service

A panoptic sniper tower on the wall, Aida refugee camp, (the camp was set up near Bethlehem after the Nakba of 1948), Sep 2024.  (photo by Zarni)

Dr Maung Zarni recently travelled to the Occupied Palestine and the occupying Israel with a US delegation of anti-Zionist Rabbis – Rabbis for Ceasefire – and spent nine intense days witnessing the institutionalized textbook Lemkinian genocide.

— “This is beyond what the Nazis embodied. I’ve never seen such sadistic violence.”

8 Sep 2024 – In this first interview on Israel’s genocide in Palestine at large, the Burmese rights activist and genocide scholar extensively drew on his doctoral education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison under the joint mentorship of the late Robert L. Koehl, a pioneering American scholar of SS and its chief Heinrich Himmler and former US military interrogator of surrendered SS officers in the Allied section of the post-Nazi Germany in 1945, and his own extensive comparative research on colonialisms and genocides, including the Rohingya genocide his own native Burma or Myanmar – both the state and multi-ethnic society – have been perpetrating over the last 40+ years.

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Buddhist Scholar Maung Zarni among Interfaith Delegation Visiting Palestine

 

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He observes that, “Israel has built a vast genocidal ecosystem in occupied Palestine.” He explains, “by that, I mean a totally repressive system of evolving policies and creatively devised methods of sadistic repression, (labour & resource) exploitation of the entire indigenous population, with different geographic pockets, with a singular foundational mission of turning the land with the majority (indigenous) people into a land with Zionist majority.”

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A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center – Cambodia. Zarni is the co-founder of FORSEA, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for Free Rohingya Coalition, and an adviser to the European Centre for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge. Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the New York Times, The Guardian and the Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University), and Myanmar’s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, Essays on Myanmar Genocide.

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