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== Education ==

== Education ==

Shalev earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from [[McGill University]] in Canada.<ref name="kohelet-bio" /> He later completed a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies at [[Bar-Ilan University]] in Israel.<ref name="muckrack">{{cite web |title=Avraham Russell Shalev |url=https://muckrack.com/avraham-russell-shalev |website=Muck Rack |access-date=June 20, 2026}}</ref>

Shalev earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from [[McGill University]] in Canada.<ref name="kohelet-bio" /> He later completed a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and a master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies at [[Bar-Ilan University]] in Israel.<ref name="muckrack">{{cite web |title=Avraham Russell Shalev |url=https://muckrack.com/avraham-russell-shalev |website=Muck Rack |access-date=June 20, 2026}}</ref>

== Career ==

== Career ==

=== Legal Analysis of the October 7 Attacks ===

=== Legal Analysis of the October 7 Attacks ===

In August 2025, Shalev published a comprehensive legal study in the ''Israel Law Review'' titled ''"Hamas' October 7th Genocide: Legal Analysis and the Weaponisation of Reverse Accusations – A Study in Modern Genocide Recognition and Denial."''<ref name="cambridge-ilr">{{cite journal |last=Shalev |first=Avraham Russell |date=August 9, 2025 |title=Hamas’ October 7th Genocide: Legal Analysis and the Weaponisation of Reverse Accusations – A Study in Modern Genocide Recognition and Denial |journal=[[Israel Law Review]] |volume=58 |issue=2-3 |pages=343–382 |doi=10.2139/ssrn.5183482 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/israel-law-review/article/hamas-october-7th-genocide-legal-analysis-and-the-weaponisation-of-reverse-accusations-a-study-in-modern-genocide-recognition-and-denial/322198E636341BE82F37ED7147FEB0F5 |access-date=June 20, 2026}}</ref>  

In August 2025, Shalev published a comprehensive legal study in the ''Israel Law Review'' titled ''"Hamas' October 7th Genocide: Legal Analysis and the Weaponisation of Reverse Accusations – A Study in Modern Genocide Recognition and Denial."''<ref name="cambridge-ilr">{{cite journal |last=Shalev |first=Avraham Russell |date=August 9, 2025 |title=Hamas' October 7th Genocide: Legal Analysis and the Weaponisation of Reverse Accusations – A Study in Modern Genocide Recognition and Denial |journal=[[Israel Law Review]] |volume=58 |issue=2-3 |pages=343–382 |doi=10.2139/ssrn.5183482 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/israel-law-review/article/hamas-october-7th-genocide-legal-analysis-and-the-weaponisation-of-reverse-accusations-a-study-in-modern-genocide-recognition-and-denial/322198E636341BE82F37ED7147FEB0F5 |access-date=June 20, 2026}}</ref>  

Applying the [[Genocide Convention]] and international case law, Shalev argued that the [[7 October attacks|October 7 attacks]] executed by [[Hamas]] legally constituted genocide, meeting both the physical act requirements and the strict ''dolus specialis'' (special intent) thresholds.<ref name="cambridge-ilr" /> He posited that the reciprocal genocide accusations brought against Israel by entities like South Africa function as a rhetorical tactic of "reverse accusation" designed to shield Hamas from legal accountability and shift culpability back onto the victims.<ref name="cambridge-ilr" />

Applying the [[Genocide Convention]] and international case law, Shalev argued that the [[7 October attacks|October 7 attacks]] executed by [[Hamas]] legally constituted genocide, meeting both the physical act requirements and the strict ''dolus specialis'' (special intent) thresholds.<ref name="cambridge-ilr" /> He posited that the reciprocal genocide accusations brought against Israel by entities like South Africa function as a rhetorical tactic of "reverse accusation" designed to shield Hamas from legal accountability and shift culpability back onto the victims.<ref name="cambridge-ilr" />

=== Critique of Academic Discourse ===

=== Critique of Academic Discourse ===

Shalev has also critiqued contemporary academia's framing of the [[Israel–Hamas war]]. In an October 2025 paper titled ''"The Misuse of Genocide: Academia’s Betrayal of Truth,"'' he asserted that the academic consensus alleging an Israeli [false] genocide in Gaza relies on partisan networks, such as the ''Journal of Genocide Research'' (JGR), which seek to intentionally dilute the legal definitions of genocide.<ref name="kohelet-article">{{cite web |last=Shalev |first=Avraham |title=The Misuse of Genocide: Academia’s Betrayal of Truth |url=https://www.kohelet.org.il/en/article/11606 |website=Kohelet Policy Forum |date=October 26, 2025 |access-date=June 20, 2026}}</ref> "The INOGS was founded in 1999 by genocide scholars who explicitly sought to refocus the field away from the Holocaust. As Holocaust scholar Israel Charny put it in a 2016 paper, the minimisation of the Shoah has been central to the INOGS project. As Charny records, the JGR has published articles denying that the Nazis explicitly targeted Jews and arguing that the Wannsee conference, where the Nazis formulated the Final Solution, was actually developing German policy towards minorities as a whole." Shalev reminds that such accusations ignore the military realities of dense urban warfare, rely on unverified or circular NGO data, and use out-of-context quotes from political leaders to delegitimize the sovereign status of Israel.<ref name="kohelet-article" />

Shalev has also critiqued contemporary academia's framing of the [[Israel–Hamas war]]. In an October 2025 paper titled ''"The Misuse of Genocide: Academia’s Betrayal of Truth,"'' he asserted that the academic consensus alleging an Israeli [false] genocide in Gaza relies on partisan networks, such as the ''Journal of Genocide Research'' (JGR), which seek to intentionally dilute the legal definitions of genocide.<ref name="kohelet-article">{{cite web |last=Shalev |first=Avraham |title=The Misuse of Genocide: Academia's Betrayal of Truth |url=https://www.kohelet.org.il/en/article/11606 |website=Kohelet Policy Forum |date=October 26, 2025 |access-date=June 20, 2026}}</ref> "The INOGS was founded in 1999 by genocide scholars who explicitly sought to refocus the field away from the Holocaust. As Holocaust scholar Israel Charny put it in a 2016 paper, the minimisation of the Shoah has been central to the INOGS project. As Charny records, the JGR has published articles denying that the Nazis explicitly targeted Jews and arguing that the Wannsee conference, where the Nazis formulated the Final Solution, was actually developing German policy towards minorities as a whole." Shalev reminds that such accusations ignore the military realities of dense urban warfare, rely on unverified or circular NGO data, and use out-of-context quotes from political leaders to delegitimize the sovereign status of Israel.<ref name="kohelet-article" />

== See also ==

== See also ==

[[Category:Middle East]]

[[Category:Middle East]]

[[Category:lawyers]]

[[Category:Lawyers]]

[[Category:McGill University alumni]]

[[Category:McGill University alumni]]

[[Category:Bar-Ilan University alumni]]

[[Category:Bar-Ilan University alumni]]

[[Category:Kohelet Policy Forum people]]

[[Category:Kohelet Policy Forum people]]