Will there ever be a vocabulary that describes  adequately the vengeful annihilation of a whole people? This is the more poignant in that this is a people that is already displaced and sequestered  by international agreement and deprived of the definition and identity held by other  recognised nation-states. Palestine 🇵🇸 is a nation whose very … More Marianne Hirsch, ‘a retired professor at Columbia University, whose field, traumatic memory, is interwoven with Holocaust and genocide studies’, says, “Genocide prevention is a responsibility,” but despite that, “Now, we’re watching on our iPhones, and still people are holding back.” Why study genocide at all, then?