Thank you for your warm responses (see below) to the First Pilot Issue of GPN!
We are, of course, trying to learn from our mistakes and make corrections and improvements. Your detailed critiques are very welcome.
Sadly, there is no dearth of material from our contemporary world about genocidal massacres and threats of new eruptions of mass murder, let alone new material from the study of past genocides.
This second Issue is published in April, a month that is marked by Holocaust Day in Israel, and by the (95th) Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The issue presents an important essay review of the evidence of Auschwitz by architectural expert, Robert Jan Van Pelt, who appeared as an expert witness at the infamous David Irving-Deborah Lipstadt trial in London. It also presents a nomination for the ‘ten most absurd statements on the Holocaust.' We also present a story of a heated exchange on Russian TV (English language edition) between arch Holocaust degrader-denier, Norman Finkelstein, and GPN Editor-in-Chief, Israel Charny, accompanied by a video of the program.
The issue also reports a good deal on recognition of the Armenian Genocide (and also Assyrian and Greek victims): the status of the Protocols between Armenia and Turkey; denials of the Armenian Genocide—including by Israel; an Open Letter to the Presidents of Turkey and Israel; and an overview of a remarkable conference on Armenia and Turkey that took place in Istanbul, including the text of a courageous affirmation of the Armenian Genocide presented by Yair Auron.
The issue also presents stories and articles about Iran and its serious threats of future nuclear destruction; on Darfur; Cambodia; a new law against Holocaust denial in Hungary; Liberia; and the apology of Serbia after also continuing denial of the genocidal massacre at Srebrenica;
Further, this second issue of GPN contains stories and articles about incitement to genocide; prediction and prevention; education about genocide in the USA; digital terrorism and hate; hunger as a form of genocide with millions dying every year; and about a fatwa issued by a distinguished Muslim scholar against violence, for human life is holy!
We also introduce in this issue two new sections entitled THREAT and NEWSPEAK with brief reports on threats to human life in our world today, and on the gobbledygook of ‘1984-type’ disinformation and suppression of truth.
Finally, we continue our beginning assembly of Holocaust and Genocide Information Resources, including a feature story by Deborah Dwork in the section on Programs and Courses on the first PhD Program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, and a feature article in the Bibliography section on the book Ghosts of Halabja by Michael Kelly.
We are a website-magazine. Our immediate goal is ‘a good read.’ Our long range goal is to contribute meaningfully to the development of genocide studies and taking real steps towards prevention.
Best wishes,
Israel
Israel W. Charny, Ph.D., Executive Director of GPN and Editor-in-Chief
Elihu
Elihu D. Richter, M.D., M.P.H., Editor and Director of GPN WORLD GENOCIDE SITUATION ROOM
Marc
Marc I Sherman, M.L.S., Editor and Director of GPN HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE REVIEW
David
David Lisbona, MBA, GPN Director of Development
P.S.
See the Table of Contents for the February issue. You still have easy access to stories and articles that are important to you.
Remember, we welcome regular submissions of information for our various information databases –including the calendar, announcement of conferences and seminars, information about projects and calls for collaboration, news of completed work, organizations devoted to genocide study and prevention, university and college and other programs and courses, and the bibliography of publications about genocide. Slowly but surely, we present new information and alsoin some cases cumulative lists of past and new information combined.
We also welcome your becoming an Affiliate of GPN. Please click here to see the sign-up form.
Registered Affiliates of GPN will enjoy:
● Active identification with the purposes of GPN Genocide Prevention Now and official membership in its network
● Preliminary e-mail announcements of forthcoming new issues of GPN and their contents
● Priority review of submitted manuscripts for possible publication in GPN
● Authorization to participate in interactive Talkback features of GPN as they are introduced.
Responses to the First Issue of GPN:
Responses to the pilot issue of GPN have been overwhelmingly positive.
"Congratulations on the first issue which I read today. It contains excellent articles by first rate scholars on pertinent issues. It is a splendid contribution to genocide studies." - Helen Fein, Director of the Institute of the Study of Genocide, New York; Co-Founder and First President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
"I do not have the words to tell you how glad I am to see the foundation of Genocide Prevention Now. This is especially so since I see it as an important way of conveying the solution to much government murder which is democratic freedom, as my website (http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/) and books show empirically and theoretically." - Rudy Rummel, Professor Emeritus Political Science, University Hawaii
"Have had the opportunity to go through the first issue of this phenomenal web magazine. Congratulations to all of you! It is most impressive; and I particularly am most appreciative of document opportunity in both HTML & PDF" - Steven Leonard Jacobs, Associate Professor, University of Alabama, Department of Religious Studies
"Great what you have done! Excellent!"
Prof, Dr. Jutta Lindert, MPH, Department of Public Health, Protestant University of Applied Sciences - Ludwigsburg,Germany
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 in Iran, its leaders, starting with Ayatollah Khomeini, have been explicitly calling for the destruction of Israel, to incite followers and sensitize bystanders. Since October 2005 and the election of Mahmud Ahmadinejad, its leaders have ratcheted up the frequency and intensity of their incitement and hate language. 
Professor Elihu D Richter MD MPH
Alex Barnea, MSc
Yael Stein MD
Incitement and hate language, notably medical metaphors, especially originating from figures of power, official media, places of worship or school texts, are recognized predictors of genocide. In 2009, Jihadist propagation of antisemitic dehumanizing hate language drives a new world-wide axis of genocide. Leaders of Iran sharply increased their use of dehumanizing hate language and incitement, especially throughout the first half of 2008, but after the disputed election, there was a decline. Turkey was also teetering on the brink of propagating state-sanctioned antisemitism. In the Muslim world, Saudi preachers, Egyptian mass media and Palestinian Authority, Hamas in Gaza and, to a lesser extent, the leadership of Fatah in the West Bank in 2009 remain major producers of inflammatory hate language in media, mosques and school books, stigmatizing Jews and Christians. Currently European based antisemitic incitement is coming from an odd coalition of extreme left, extreme right, Islamist, and some human rights groups. The failure of the Goldstone Commission to relate explicitly and with sufficient force to Hamas' incitement to genocide, under Iran's support, was a fundamental error of omission. This legitimizes the use of law to divert attention away from incitement as a crime against humanity. 
The historical narrative of the Darfur genocide is presently being re-written. Despite dozens of human rights reports that have established the basic realities of ethnically-targeted human destruction in Darfur and Eastern Chad over the past seven years, an effort is being made to minimise the scale of that destruction, elide the role of ethnicity in the conflict and downplay the responsibility of the Khartoum regime.
