American academia’s silence on Palestine reveals its hypocritical embrace of ‘diversity’ principles
Rohit Chopra | 06 January 2024 | The Scroll
On the eve of 2024, Israel was in the midst of its 13th week of war on the Palestinian people, with no plans of letting up. Israel’s action, a retaliation for a terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7 that killed over 1,200 Israelis, at this point meets the definition of a genocide, as South Africa contends in its rigorously argued case in the International Court of Justice.
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and the West Bank has included the targeted destruction of hospitals, churches and mosques, and refugee camps, as well as the deliberate killings of civilians, resulting in the deaths of over 21,000 people, the majority of whom are women and children.
With strong support in the country for Israel’s response, the country’s leaders have announced plans for the “voluntary migration” of displaced Palestinians, essentially a project of forced ethnic cleansing. Neither the admonitions of the United Nations, nor the unequivocal identification of Israeli actions as war crimes by international human rights organisations like Amnesty International, nor the Pope’s condemnation of Israel’s actions as “terrorism” have had the slightest deterrent effect on the….