Supporting Higher Education in Gaza (guest post)
“No matter what else one thinks of this conflict, our hearts should break over the loss of educational opportunities for over a million people which will extend far beyond this war.” – Preston J. Werner, senior lecturer in philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is donating to a fundraiser by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) to support higher education in Gaza, and has offered to match donations to it by any philosophers and philosophy students up to a total of £2000 (approximately $2500.00). As BRISMES notes on their fundraising page, Since October 2023, Israel has damaged or destroyed buildings on every university campus in the Gaza Strip. Libraries, science labs, and historical archives have all been obliterated. Israel has killed hundreds of university students and more than 100 academics, including numerous internationally respected scholars, deans and presidents, thus serving a harsh blow not only to the physical infrastructure of higher education in the Gaza Strip, but also to its intellectual underpinnings. At a time when the Palestinian population in Gaza needs them most, it will take years to rebuild university programmes in social work, physiotherapy and medicine, but also in engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, literature, law and history. In what follows, Dr. Werner discusses why he is donating to the fund, and encourages you to do so, too. Supporting Higher Education in Gaza by Preston J. Werner What can we do, as philosophers and academics, about the ongoing war in Gaza? This is a secondary question to what we can do, as citizens of our respective countries, and as human beings, about the ongoing war in Gaza. But the first question is a question that is also of central relevance to most people reading this blog. One answer to this question is that we can engage in moral, political, and legal thinking surrounding the war. Several people have done so on this blog and elsewhere, and while I of course have strong opinions on the issue, I don’t intend to add to that discussion here. I instead encourage you to read work on the topic by philosophers and academics who have spent large chunks of their life thinking about these issues. Here is something that I think should unite..
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