Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov is an Israeli‑born historian and a leading scholar of the Holocaust and genocide studies. He grew up in Israel, served four years in the Israeli military, and later became a U.S.‑based academic specializing in mass violence, ethnic cleansing, and the destruction of civilian populations. He is a professor at Brown University and has written extensively on genocide, nationalism, and the politics of memory. Bartov publicly states that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza meets the definition of genocide under the 1948 UN Convention, citing systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure and displacement of over a million Palestinians. He also warns that current Israeli policies are transforming the state into “a full‑blown apartheid state” and undermining the foundations of Zionism itself. His dissent is grounded in his expertise as a genocide scholar and his personal history as an Israeli veteran