Israel W. Charny (Hebrew: ישראל צ'רני; 1931 – 14 December 2024) was an Israeli psychologist and genocide scholar.

An affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, the International Association of Genocide Scholars was founded in 1994 by Israel Charny,[5] Helen Fein, Robert Melson and Roger Smith.

He once wrote, "...Genocide in the generic sense means the mass killing of substantial numbers of human beings, when not in the course of military action against the military forces of an avowed enemy, under conditions of the essential defencelessness of the victim..." Charny, a clinical psychologist and practicing psychotherapist, was Professor of Psychology and Family Therapy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was the Founder and first Director of the Program for Advanced Studies in Integrative Psychotherapy (Family, Couples, Individual and Group Therapy) of the Martin Buber Center and Department of Psychology.

At the same time, Israel should underscore its readiness to return to massive destruction of Gaza in response to any further bombings or invasions by Hamas.

"[10][11] Israel's Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide Denial, State Deception, Truth versus Politicization of History.