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Janelle Carlson

Janelle Carlson is a graduate student at the University of Bayreuth and a graduate of the University of South Dakota’s International Studies Program where she focused on the Middle East, minority rights and genocide studies. She has published in Informed Comment, Responsible Statecraft, and The International Journal of Yazidi Studies.

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This is Why the Students are Protesting: Eyes on Israel's Killing Fields in Gaza

This is Why the Students are Protesting: Eyes on Israel’s Killing Fields in Gaza

Janelle Carlson

Bayreuth, Germany (Special to Informed Comment- Feature) – Lisa Hajjar has compared what is happening in Gaza to the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Yet where she argues that “Unlike the Khmer Rouge, the Israeli government’s exterminationist policy is not fueled by an ideological vision to remake Gaza anew. Total destruction is the goal.” As has […]

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