And in the ivory towers of academia, there is no direction forward without a recognition of the exploitative nature of our institutions and their complicity in the violence we are now witnessing against Palestine and the Arabic tradition to which it belongs. This Genocide is calling us to wake up, to shake off the implicit and now blatantly explicit limits on our lives and our work. Innocent blood is demanding that we affirm our right to advocate for and defend the culture we study and its people as human beings before we even dare study them as creatives and intellectuals and mine their history and culture for our own profit.
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