UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, International Court of Justice President: Investigate the Possibility that Israel is Committing the Crime of Genocide Against the Indigenous Palestinian People.
After 20 months of the Israeli genocidal assault on Gaza, Palestinians are not just dying, they are being starved, isolated and pushed past every limit of human endurance as living conditions have reached disastrous levels. This is not only the darkest phase of the genocide, it’s also the most deliberate.
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- Israel’s efforts to control — and now destroy — the systems of education in Gaza and throughout Palestine have been devastating. But they will ultimately be unsuccessful.
- Palestinians, in the middle of a genocide, have already gathered to try and rebuild the education system and redevelop important systems of teaching and learning. That these efforts have begun — even before the rubble of destroyed schools has been cleared and before the students and staff killed have been properly mourned — demonstrates the Palestinian commitment to education and aspirations for freedom.
… Ahead of Wednesday’s “Fund Education, Not Genocide” march in Washington D.C., Braxton Brewington, who works on communications for the Debt Collective, called for people everywhere in the United States who care about education and who care about the genocide in Gaza to join in unity and resistance.
… Genocide depends on the dominance of the oppressors’ narratives. Young people in Gaza, who have been given opportunities to develop writing and storytelling skills thanks to the education system, and thanks to teachers like Alareer, continue to counter this narrative.
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