Martin Shaw, "The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza" (Agenda Publishing, 2025)

The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide

to the center of world politics, with sharp conflicts between the

protesters and lawyers who invoke it and the governments and media that

deny it. The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza (Agenda Publishing, 2025), by the foremost sociological theorist of genocide, Martin Shaw, defends

the idea against thinkers who have questioned it, and argues that it is

essential to the understanding of mass atrocities. It maintains that

Gaza has opened a new age in which the West not only fails to prevent,

but also participates in genocide.

As well as discussing the

genocide idea, the book analyses the Gaza genocide in the context of the

longer histories of the problem, both globally and in Palestine.

Further chapters deal with "forgotten genocides," the attempted Russian