Executive Council of the American Educational Studies Association, AESA’s statement sends a clear message to Palestinians, namely that Palestinian life is worthless whereby Israelis are justified in murdering them with impunity in a so-called “conflict” that assumes two equal forces. The statement does not address or concede that Israel is a settler colonial project, whose explicit goal is the systematic killing and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It assigns no responsibility or blame to a nuclear power that has outrightly acknowledged its aim is Palestinian genocide as civilian casualties are assigned the euphemism 'collateral damage.' The statement thus presents the “loss of life” as a result of an apparent conflict that began on October 7
Thank you for this. Adding my name to this list og academics in solidarity.
Stephanie Zubriski, PhD(c), Dalhousie University
Great work