An Open Letter from Gaza Academics
“We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of our colleagues and our students, and the insistence on our future, in the face of all current attempts to erase us.” – So begins an open letter from Gaza academics and administrators. It continues: We call upon our friends and colleagues around the world to resist the ongoing campaign of scholasticide in occupied Palestine, to work alongside us in rebuilding our demolished universities, and to refuse all plans seeking to bypass, erase, or weaken the integrity of our academic institutions. The future of our young people in Gaza depends upon us, and our ability to remain on our land in order to continue to serve the coming generations of our people… Our families, colleagues, and students are being assassinated, while we have once again been rendered homeless… Our civic infrastructure—universities, schools, hospitals, libraries, museums and cultural centres—built by generations of our people, lies in ruins from this deliberate continuous Nakba. The deliberate targeting of our educational infrastructure is a blatant attempt to render Gaza uninhabitable and erode the intellectual and cultural fabric of our society. However, we refuse to allow such acts to extinguish the flame of knowledge and resilience that burns within us. The letter asks for a few things: (a) for “universities and colleagues worldwide to coordinate any academic aid efforts directly with our universities” rather than through “alleged [Israeli] reconstruction schemes that seek to eliminate the possibility of independent Palestinian educational life in Gaza.” (b) for financial and technical assistance in transitioning to online teaching “to mitigate the disruption caused by the destruction of physical infrastructure,” including “comprehensive support to cover operational costs, including the salaries of academic staff.” (c) for “all concerned parties to immediately coordinate their efforts” to take the “urgent measures” needed to “address the financial crisis now faced by academic institutions, to ensure their very survival.” You can read the whole letter and see its list of signatories here. (via Matthew Smith) Related: American Philosophers Should Condemn the War in Gaza
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