100 HOLOCAUST SCHOLARS PRAISE UGANDA'S DARFUR ARREST THREATby Martin Barillas Friday, July 24, 2009
News Release: July 24, 2009 For more information, contact: rafaelmedoff@aol.com / 202-434-8994 100 HOLOCAUST SCHOLARS PRAISE UGANDA'S DARFUR ARREST THREAT Washington, D.C. - One hundred leading Hol ocaust and genocide scholars from around the world have signed a petition praising the Ugandan government for blocking Sudan's president from attending a conference in Uganda this weekend, because of his role in the Darfur genocide. “During the Holocaust, the international community failed to act against the Nazi genocide,” said Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the Washington-based David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which organized the petition. “By contrast, Uganda's action helps isolate Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and shames the Arab and African countries that have given him red-carpet treatment." Bashir, who has been indicted by the International=2 0Criminal Court for his role in Darfur, had planned to attend the Smart Partnership conference in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, on Sunday, July 26--until the recent announcement by Uganda Foreign Minister Henry Okello that Bashir could be arrested if he showed up. In recent months, Bashir has visited Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, all of which ignored the ICC warrant for Bashir's arrest. The Wyman Institute's petition, addressed to Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, stated, in part: "We salute Uganda for making it clear that Bashir is not welcome, and we hope other countries will follow Uganda's lead. Strong interna tional action is necessary to end the Darfur genocide and bring the murderers to justice. The International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Bashir must be implemented." The signatories on the petition, who come from the United States, Germany, Canada, Israel, England, and Australia, include the most distinguished figures in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies. The 100 signatories include: * Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, president of Genocide Watch and immediate past president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. * Dr. Henry R. Huttenbach, Chairman of the International Academy for Genocide Prevention, and founder and editor of the Journal of Genocide Research. * Prof. David S. Wyman, author of The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945. * Prof. Yehuda Bauer, former director of Yad Vashem’s International Center for Holocaust Studies. * Dr. Michael Berenbaum, former research director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. * Prof. Deborah Lipstadt, author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving. * Prof. Christoper Browning, author of Ordinary Men. The complete text of the petition, with all the signatories, follows below. * * * The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies July 24, 2009 Hon. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni President=2 0of Uganda c/o Embassy of Uganda 5911 16t h St NW Washington, DC 20011-2816 pkamunanwire@ugandaembassyus.org Dear Mr. President, As scholars who have written or taught about the Holocaust or other genocides, we wish to express our support for the announcement by Ugandan Foreign Minister Henry Okello that Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir could be arrested if he attempts to attend the international summit in Kampala later this month. Uganda's position against the perpetrators of the Darfur genocide contrasts admirably with the appalling behavior of the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. As you know, those governments have welcomed Bashir and treated him as a respected international leader instead of as a fugitive mass murderer. We salute Uganda for making it clear that Bashir is not welcome, and we hope other countries will follow Uganda's lead. Strong international action is necessary to end the Darfur genocide and bring the murderers to justice. The International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Bashir must be implemented. Cordially, Prof. Irving Abella Shiff Professor of Canadian Jewish History York University, Toronto Author, None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 Prof. Franklin Hugh Adler G. Theodore Mitau Chair of Political Science Macalester College Prof. Mark=2 0J. Allman Merrimack College Author of Who Would Jesus Kill? War, Peace and the Christian Tradition Prof. Marie L. Baird Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Graduate Studies Duquesne University Author, On The Side of the Angels: Ethics and Post-Holocaust Spirituality Dr. Paul R. Bartrop Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Arts Deakin University, Australia Author, Dictionary of Genocide (2 vols) Prof. Yehuda Bauer Professor of Holocaust Studies (Emer.), Hebrew University Academic Adviser, International Center for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem Author, A History of the Holocaust William Bemister Recipient of Emmy and CINE Golden Eagle Awards Producer-Corresponde nt, The Search for Mengele Prof. Doron Ben-Atar Chair, Department of History Fordham University Co-author, What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust Dr. Michael Berenbaum American Jewish University Executive Editor, Encyclopedia Judaica Author, The Wor ld Must Know Prof. Alan L. Berger Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies Florida Atlantic University Co-editor, Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature Prof. Aaron Berman Dean, Hampshire College Author, Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism 1933-1948 Thomas Bluger Chaplain, St. Joseph's Villa Author, Following the Virgin Mary Through Auschwitz Prof. Paul Bookbinder University of Massachusetts - Boston Author, Weimar Germany Dr. Harold Brackman Simon Wiesenthal Center Author, "The Holocaust in the Thought of W.E.B. DuBois" Prof. Christopher R. Browning Frank Porter Graham Professor of History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Author, Ordinary Men Prof. James P. Buchanan University Professor and Director The Edward B. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue Xavier University Dr. Daniel Burston Chair, Psychology Department Duquesne University Prof. Vivian Grosswald Curran Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh Author, "The Legalization of Racism in a Constitutional State: Democracy’s Suicide in Vichy France” Prof. Rebecca I. Denova Dept. of Religious Studies University of Pittsburgh Prof. Hasia R. Diner Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History New York University Prof. Lawrence Douglas Amherst College Author: "The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust" Prof. Deborah Dwork Rose Professor of Holocaust History Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Clark University Author, Holocaust: A History Prof. Liba H. Engel Queens College, CUNY Stuart G. Erdheim Director, They Looked Away Author, “Could the Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz-Birkenau?” Dr. Helen Fein Executive Director Institute for the Study of Genocide Dr. Eugene J. Fisher Associate Director (Ret.), Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC Editor, Catholics Remember the Holocaust Prof. Saul Friedman Wayne State University Author, No Haven for the Oppressed Prof. Allon Gal Ben-Gurion University Author, David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State Prof. Zev Garber Professor Emeritus, Jewish Studies, Los Angeles Valley College Author, Shoah: The Paradigmatic Genocide Series Editor, Studies in the Shoah Prof. Jay Geller Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture, Vanderbilt Divinity School President, Tennesseans Against Genocide Editor, Postmemories of the Holocaust Prof. Haim Genizi Bar Ilan University (emer.) 0A Author, American Apathy Prof. Myrna Goldenberg (Emer.) Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor in Holocaust Studies, 2005-206 Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Co-Editor, Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis and the Holocaust Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin Presi dent, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem Editor, Megillat HaShoah Prof. Henry Gonshak Professor of English, Montana Tech Author, "Does ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ Accurately Depict the War Crimes Trials?" Prof. Gershon Greenberg American University Coeditor, Wre stling with God: Jewish Theological Responses During the Holocaust Dr. Alex Grobman Brenn Institute Author, Rekin dling the Flame Dr. Elvira Groezinger Freie Universitaet Berlin/ SPME Germany Author, Die jiddische Kultur im Schatten der Diktaturen Prof. Susannah Heschel Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College Author, The Aryan Jesus: Christian20Theologians and20the Bible in Nazi Germany Prof. Herb Hirsch Professor of Political Science Virginia Commonwealth University Co-editor, Genocide Studies and Prevention Author, Genocide and the Politics of Memory Prof. Ron Hollander Montclair State University Contributor, Why Didn't the Press Shout? American and International Journalism During the Holocaust Dr. Henry R. Huttenbach, Chairman International Academy for Genocide Prevention Professor (emer.), City University of New York Founding editor Journal of Genocide Research Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs The University of Alabama Associate Editor, The Encyclopedia of Genocide (2 vos.) Prof. Marty J. Kalb Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts/Artist Ohio Wesleyan University Prof. Steven T. Katz Director, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University Author, The Holocaust in Historical Context Dr. Neil J. Kressel William Patterson University Author, Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror Prof. Michael Kuelker St. Charles Community College Council Member, St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center Prof. Fred Lazin Ben Gurion University Author, The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics Prof. Laurel Leff Northeastern University Author, Buried by 'The Times': The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper Prof. Richard Libowitz Intellectual Heritage Program Temple University Co-editor, The Genocidal Mind Prof. Deborah E. Lipstadt Emory University Author, Beyond Belief: The American Press & the Coming of the Holocaust Dr. Marcia Sachs Littell Professor, Holocaust and Genocide Studies The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Dr. Erich H. Loewy Professor of Medicine and Founding Chair of Bioethics (emer.) Associate in Philosophy University of California, Davis Rabbi Dr. Haskel Lookstein Kehilath Jeshurun / Ramaz School Author, Were We Our Brothers' Keepers? Dr. Rafael Medoff Director, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies Author, Blowing the Whistle on Genocide Prof. Robert Melson (emer.) Purdue University Prof. Rochelle L. Millen Wittenberg University Editor, New Perspectives on the Holocaust Prof. Paul Miller McDaniel College and the International University of Sarajevo Executive Producer, They Looked Away Prof. Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma Author, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower Martin Ostrow Director, "America and the Holocaust" (PBS) Prof. Zsuzsanna Ozsvath The Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies The University of Texas at Dallas Author, In the Footsteps of Orpheus: The Times and LIfe of Miklos Radnoti Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.D Professor of Social Ethics Director, Catholic-Jewish Studies Program Catholic Theological Union Prof. Monty Noam Penkower (emer.) Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem Author, The Jess Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust Prof. Susan Lee Pentlin (emer.) University of Central Missouri Editor, Mary Berg’s Diary: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto Prof. Michael Phayer (emer.) Marquette University Author, The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965 Prof. Eunice G. Pollack University of North Texas Coeditor, Encyclopedia of American Jewish History Prof. Allen Podet State University College at Buffalo, NY Author, Success and Failure of the Anglo-American Committee Prof. Ronald Radosh (emer.) City University of New York Adjunct Fellow, The Hudson Institute, Washington DC Prof. Harry Reicher University of Pennsylvania Law School; Scholar-in-Residence, Touro Law Center Prof. Elihu D. Richter Genocide Prevention Program Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine Dr. Carol Rittner RSM Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Co-Editor, The Holocaust & the Christian20World Prof. Paul Lawrence Rose Mitrani Professor of European History, The Pennsylvania State University Author, Archives of the Holocaust, vol. XIV Dr. Peter I. Rose Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology Smith College Editor, The Dispossessed: An Anatomy of Exile Prof. Thane Rosenbaum John Whelan Distinguished Lecturer in Law Director of the Forum on Law, Culture & Society Fordham University School of Law / Author, The Myth of Moral Justice Prof. John K. Roth Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Founding Director, The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Claremont McKenna College Prof. Richard L. Rubenstein President Emeritus, University of Bridgeport Author, After Auschwitz Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel Remember the Women Institute Author, The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Pierre Sauvage President, Chambon Foundation and Varian Fry Institute Prof. Robert Mo ses Shapiro Judaic Studies Department Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Translator and Editor, Lodz Ghetto: A History Dr. Baila Shargel Manhattanville College Author, Female Leadership in the American Jewish Community Prof. Gerald Sorin American and Jewish Studies State University of New York, New Paltz Rev. Dr. Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C. Associate Professor of History Stonehill College Prof. Gregory H. Stanton President, Genocide Watch Immediate Past President, International Association of Genocide Scholars Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University Prof. Leon Stein Professor of History (emer.) Roosevelt University, Chicago and Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Prof. Norton S. Taichman University of Pennsylvania Coordinator of The Ivansk Project Prof. Peter Tarjan (emer.) University of Miami Editor: Children Who Survived The Final Solution Prof. Samuel Totten University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Co-editor, Genocide in Darfur: Investigating Atrocities in the Sudan Dr. James Waller Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation Author,"Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mas s Killing Prof. Kenneth Waltzer Professor & Director, Jewish Studies Michigan State University Prof. Chaim I. Waxman Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies Rutgers University Dr. Racelle R. Weiman Executive Director, Global Dialogue Institute, Temple University Founding Director, Center for Holocaust and Humanities Education, Hebrew Union College Prof. Victoria Saker Woeste Research Professor, American Bar Foundation Contributor, Encyclopedia of Antisemitism, Anti-Jewish Prejudice, and Persecution Prof. David S. Wyman Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. Professor of History (emer.) University of Massachusetts at Amherst Author, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 Prof. Randall C. Zachman Professor of Reformation Studies University of Notre Dame Prof. Bat-Ami Zucker Bar Ilan University Author, In Search of Refuge Dr. Efraim Zuroff Simon Wiesen thal Center ================================ ABOUT THE WYMAN INSTITUTE: The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C. is a research and education institute focusing on America’s response to the Holocaust. It is named in honor of the eminent historian and author of the 1984 best-seller The Abandonment of the Jews, the most important and influential book concerning the U.S. response to the Nazi genocide. The Institute’s Advisory Committee includes Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Members of Congress, and other luminaries. Its Academic Council includes more than 50 leading professors of the Holocaust, American history, and Jewish history. The Institute’s Arts & Letters Council, chaired by Cynthia Ozick, includes prominent artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers. (For a complete list, please visit www.WymanInstitute.org) General |
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