After Genocide, What is the Role of Researchers?
b'Title: "After Genocide, What Is The Role Of Researchers?"\\n\\nDate: Apr 5, 2014\\n\\nSpeaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small (Dr. Small appears at frame 21:09)\\n\\nAffiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)\\n\\nLocation: Kigali International Forum on Genocide\\n\\nDescription: Commemorating the Rwandan genocide, Dr. Charles Asher Small begins by quoting Primo Levi, who wrote: \\u201cWe cannot understand fascism, but we can and we must understand where it came from and we must be on our guard because what happened here [the Holocaust] can happen again anywhere. For this reason it is everyone\\u2019s duty to reflect on what happened.\\u201d Dr. Small continues by reflecting on contemporary antisemtisim and the demonization of Israel. He notes that while the UN Charter unequivocally states that incitement to genocide is punishable by death, today the Iranian revolutionary regime openly calls for the elimination of the State of Israel. He asserts, however, that the Iranian regime is not only a threat to the State of Israel, but to the world at large. Reflecting on the role of researchers, Dr. Small says that the role of the scholar is to do high caliber, cutting-edge, impeccable research and penetrate the academy even when such views are unpopular because we live in a world in which the international order is based on interests and rarely morality or ethics.'