Talk:Israel Charny

"Manipulating the masses"
The statement that the subject is "using his background in clinical psychology to manipulate the masses", apart from being entirely unsourced, seems apriori to violate NPOV WP standards. Firstly who are "the masses", in an encyclopedic and analytical sense? Secondly how on earth does any individual manipulate the masses armed only with a psychology degree? I mean normally some kind of privileged access to mass media or other means of mass communication would be involved, at the very least. All in all, the accusation appears demagogic and ascribes almost supernatural powers to the target individual in a manner that is consistent with antisemitic tropes of "master manipulators". Helvetius (talk) 11:11, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Charny's titles
Charny is a psychologist and - more precisely than historian - a genocide scholar per numerous sources:
 * International Association of Genocide Scholars
 * "http://www.jewishledger.com/2013/09/conversation-withdr-israel-charny/"
 * "http://www.hartford.edu/news/press-releases/2013/09/GenocideExhibit.aspx"
 * "http://www.hartford.edu/daily/Article/View/15306"
 * "http://books.google.com/books?id=xWKjSc0ql3cC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=israel+w+charny+genocide+scholar&source=bl&ots=8udJsIIrQv&sig=tF3rOnLdaZAlcLqZJsQyykMRqFc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pm8GU67HIcf9oATTnYKIBw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=israel%20w%20charny%20genocide%20scholar&f=false"

I have found no source that call hims a historian, but many - as above - that call him a genocide scholar. Lightbreather (talk) 21:14, 20 February 2014 (UTC)