Academic boycotts are counterproductive and foolish. AIR should remain nonpartisan and nonideological, to all extents possible. If, like the ASA and other organizations focused on science and objective understanding, it starts passing normative resolutions, it will alienate and lose members - and much faster than any such resolution would have any effect, if you imagine that anyone outside of AIR even cares what resolution on Gaza AIR adopts.
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Aparajita Bhandari via Air-L Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:41 AM To: Josir Gomes <josircg@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thank you so much Sky and others for having the courage to start this conversation. I would agree with Alia and others to say that in addition to a statement it would be helpful to consider momentum for an academic boycott akin to the one recently passed by colleagues in Anthropology: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https- 3A__www.anthroboycott.org_&d=DwIGaQ&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRf Qtp-j14fFwh71U&r=GkVr_WnzKhJSEnJfRRWR3pxvkEQQVBgue- uUa05rcls&m=QzItrbI0UYPPQirKRN144vbcMNcwcduOojQND2xqf7bgEBeyuRi4ls QRd3LwyMRr&s=5ASveBQxaRG8kf1XOqvyJy0FcGrqthun1SFMlpq92fk&e= to move towards a concrete action.
Best, Aparajita
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 8:23 AM Josir Gomes via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thank you Sky for this courageous email. In unconditional agreement and solidarity. Stop the Palestinian genocide.
Josir Cardoso Gomes Phd in Information Science / Programmer / Teacher Rio de Janeiro / Brazil
Em seg., 22 de jan. de 2024 às 00:37, Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> escreveu:
Hi everyone,
This is a difficult message to write, and I know that it will probably open some difficult conversations. I realised this morning that I was shying away from having these conversations because I don’t want to create problems for the many colleagues who I respect and am fond of within AoIR. And while I do care about all of you, sometimes care means being brave (and perhaps annoying) instead of being polite.
So. We need to talk about Gaza. And we need to talk about Israel. Many of us have been speaking up individually, but our voices have more power when we bring them together. I have signed on to other open letters, but I think there are also important reasons for the Association of Internet Researchers to take a stance.
*What I am suggesting?*
I am asking for us to have a discussion about some form of public solidarity with Palestinians who are currently under attack, and with those within Israel and around the world who are speaking up against the actions of the Israeli state.
It might involve a statement of solidarity for those who are under attack in Gaza and other parts of Palestine, and for people engaged in non-violent resistance to the actions of the Israeli state. It might involve joining the international call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions complicit in the ongoing violence against Palestinians (the guidelines for which are available here <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bdsmovement.ne t_academic-2Dboycott&d=DwIGaQ&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRfQtp- j14fFwh71U&r=GkVr_WnzKhJSEnJfRRWR3pxvkEQQVBgue- uUa05rcls&m=QzItrbI0UYPPQirKRN144vbcMNcwcduOojQND2xqf7bgEBeyuRi4ls QRd3LwyMRr&s=SJw7oJN5VfiDGyEFzSyxqtGLrsXVT-kXsI1IFrOSWq0&e= >). It might involve a commitment to ask our own academic institutions to cut their ties with the Israeli state. It might take some other format.
*Why now?*
There are many acts of violence and oppression happening around the world. Why should our academic organisation speak up on this, specifically?
Because the scale of the violence is immense and continuing <
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, exceeding that of any recent armed conflict. There is no end in sight, and the deliberate restriction of food, water, and medicine means that people within Gaza face starvation and disease as well as bombing and other forms of direct violence.
Because many of us are based in countries which are prepared to condemn other atrocities, but are unwilling to issue more than lukewarm statements about the Israeli state’s violence against Palestinians. For example, Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong <
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in retailation for their disruption of shipping routes to Israel. Where our own governments will not speak up for human rights, we have an obligation to raise our voices.
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Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
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to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
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. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
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Because Israeli citizens who protest <
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the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
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jail <
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. They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
I do not think that AoIR has tended to position itself as a neutral or apolitical organisation. Past conference themes <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.o rg_wiki_Association-5Fof-5FInternet-5FResearchers&d=DwIGaQ&c=Oo8bPJf 7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRfQtp- j14fFwh71U&r=GkVr_WnzKhJSEnJfRRWR3pxvkEQQV Bgue- uUa05rcls&m=QzItrbI0UYPPQirKRN144vbcMNcwcduOojQND2xqf7bgEBeyuRi4ls QRd3LwyMRr&s=TRbbJ70xAX2AEYg8fT9ZEKW8_7YazetLqo2waDMtRPE&e= > have included “Revolutions” and “Decolonising the Internet”. My sense is that there was also a response and a discussion within the organisation to the Black Lives Matter movement, among other issues.
Of course, I am aware that academic organisations will not often respond to international events. Perhaps the silence so far is entirely for this reason. Perhaps we are afraid that if we speak up on this we will also be asked to speak about Sudan, Congo, and other issues (would that be terrible?)
However, I think that we must also acknowledge the chilling effect that many academics and others experience specifically on the matter of Israel.
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I understand that many people do not want to contribute to the real antisemitism faced by our friends, colleagues, and students face. We all have a duty to oppose antisemitism in our communities and universities. Perhaps that leads to a reluctance to speak out about the Israeli state’s actions. However, I believe that we can oppose both antisemitism and Israeli state violence. The Israeli state does not speak for, or act for, all <
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