About 90% of these emails are people bickering or bitching about or at each other and getting wound up. Please can everyone just stop. Thank you. Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Associate Professor at Monash University Fellow at Bard College, Human Rights Project Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Speaking agent: Chartwell Speakers <https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/emma-briant/> Book agent: Inkwell Management <https://inkwellmanagement.com/> Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Support my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Mastodon @emmalbriant@mastodon.online Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin “Women are like teabags . We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.” - Unknown On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 18:54, Nicholas John via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear all
I have been following the discussion here very closely throughout what has been a very long day. I wish to address a couple of points from the various posts that have been sent.
For those of you who don’t know me, I am, among other things, the President of AoIR, Jewish, and Israeli. I have skin in the game. For some, this may disqualify me from speaking; for others, my lived experience may be considered relevant. If you know me, you likely know my views on the conflict and the current government. I do not feel a need to share them here. For the sake of openness, though, I can say that I am yet to see a statement about the conflict that does justice to the complexities of the situation.
My primary concern right now, therefore, is for AoIR. I think it is already clear that it is unlikely that the AoIR community will agree on a statement about the current situation in the Middle East. So far, the discussion has, by and large, been pretty civil, though I am extremely concerned that it might stop being so. Let me remind everyone of our code of conduct ( https://aoir.org/codeofconduct) and the rules of use ( https://aoir.org/mailing-lists/mailing-list-rules-and-etiquette) for the mailing list.
On a practical note, and after conversations with the exec members who were available today, the conversation on this list will be slowed down a bit. Every message will get through (unless it really shouldn’t), though not immediately. It’s 1am where I am, but tomorrow morning I will release a bunch of messages, and will continue to do so through the day.
I know that this conflict has already cost people real friendships within academia. It must not cost us our community.
Nik
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