The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam>, 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 <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-israel-katz-isaac-herzog-israel-gaza-palestine-war-meets-hamas-hostages> “has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-support-yemen-airstrikes-us-uk> 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. Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-gaza-strikes-continue/> by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/> and students <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-2023/> have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_palestine_2022_en.pdf>. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded. Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid/> to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st>. Telecommunications systems are shut down <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardment-as-internet-and-phone-services-go-down>, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>. Because Israeli citizens who protest <https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war> the actions of their government (including on social media) face <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-hamas/> jail <https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-citizens-expressing-solidarity-with-gaza-2023-10-20/> and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-jail-time>. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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. Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-untold-history-of-jewish-opposition-to-zionism.html> opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism. 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 <https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza/index.html> Jewish <https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-ceasefire-2023-12-15/> people <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-washington-dc>. We should not allow them to claim that they do. We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-criminalized-warns-academic/> a high <https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feature/> cost <https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statement-taken-down-after-pushback/> on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position. But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope. With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation, sky.
Well said. -- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies ThomasHaleResearch.com On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 < https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail < https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish < https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people < https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high < https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost < https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Thank you Sky for this courageous email. A number of societies and associations have statements out on the situation, like this one: https://www.theasa.net/gazastatement and this one: https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/10/20/mes-amea-joint-statement-on-palest... Would be good to do something, kindly, cc -- *Dr. Carolina Cambre (she |her) Associate ProfessorConcordia University, Montréal * *Chercheuse associée à IRCAV-Paris 2020-2025https://www.carolinacambre.com/ <https://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre>https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre <https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre>* *Concordia University is located on Kanien’kehá:ka territory.* *University of Alberta is located on Treaty 6 / Métis territory.* On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:45 PM Tom Hale via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Well said.
-- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies ThomasHaleResearch.com
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Dear all, Will the ''statement'' also include mention of the horrible terrorist attack by Hamas on civilians, babies and elderly killed, hostages taken? yours sincerely, Michael Baron On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 14:58, MC Cambre via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thank you Sky for this courageous email. A number of societies and associations have statements out on the situation, like this one: https://www.theasa.net/gazastatement and this one:
https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/10/20/mes-amea-joint-statement-on-palest...
Would be good to do something, kindly, cc --
*Dr. Carolina Cambre (she |her) Associate ProfessorConcordia University, Montréal *
*Chercheuse associée à IRCAV-Paris 2020-2025 https://www.carolinacambre.com/ <https://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre> https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre < https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre
*
*Concordia University is located on Kanien’kehá:ka territory.*
*University of Alberta is located on Treaty 6 / Métis territory.*
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:45 PM Tom Hale via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Well said.
-- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies ThomasHaleResearch.com
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition < https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Colleagues, After 25 emails on this thread, I believe the various positions and stances have been well represented, and the only thing we will accomplish with further discussion is to devolve into partisanship and infighting, which none of us wants. I propose we have a discursive cease fire, at least until the AoIR Executive Committee (which would be the source of any official organizational statement) has the opportunity to deliberate amongs itself and present us with their thoughts. With love, respect, and appreciation for all of you, Aram
On Jan 22, 2024, at 8:42 AM, Dr Michael Baron via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
External Email: Use caution with links and attachments.
Dear all, Will the ''statement'' also include mention of the horrible terrorist attack by Hamas on civilians, babies and elderly killed, hostages taken? yours sincerely, Michael Baron
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 14:58, MC Cambre via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thank you Sky for this courageous email. A number of societies and associations have statements out on the situation, like this one: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theasa.net/gazastatement__;!!IaT_gp1... and this one:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/10/20/mes-am...
Would be good to do something, kindly, cc --
*Dr. Carolina Cambre (she |her) Associate ProfessorConcordia University, Montréal *
*Chercheuse associée à IRCAV-Paris 2020-2025 https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.carolinacambre.com/__;!!IaT_gp1N!354... <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacamb... > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/facult... < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/facult...
*
*Concordia University is located on Kanien’kehá:ka territory.*
*University of Alberta is located on Treaty 6 / Métis territory.*
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:45 PM Tom Hale via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Well said.
-- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies ThomasHaleResearch.com
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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.com/v3/__https://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott__;!!IaT... >). 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 <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-de...
, 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 <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/__;!!... > “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israe...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-unive... >, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-a...
and students <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-b... >. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploa...
. Calls for protection <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/030... > have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/i...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://notechforapartheid.com/__;!!IaT_gp1N!354... >.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel...
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/...
jail <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel...
and threats of violence <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-... >, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-i...
. 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.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Int... > 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/a... . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-j...
opposition < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-ant... > to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-pal...
Jewish <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group...
people <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/je...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-pales...
a high <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/dox...
cost <
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws__;!!... >. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/__;!!... >, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/__;!!IaT_g... >) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://aoir.org__;!!IaT_gp1N!354DlfqWx4RzEtFQB7F... Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir...
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Dear all, I would expect that the AoIR will issue a statement that (1) condemns Hamas on the use of civilian Gaza’n facilities (above, within, and below), including hospitals, schools, and UNIVERSITIES for TERROR acts against Israel (which, along with the October 7th genocide attempt, have led to the inevitable destruction by the Israeli defense force); (2) Call Hamas to release the rest of the 136 kidnapped Israelies (at the age of 1 to 76 years old) RIGHT NOW!; and (3) Call Hamas to disarm, and transfer their merciless control and governmental power on Gaza strip to a moderate Muslim state until the establishment of a new civilized government. Thanks in advance! Dr. Gahl Silverman *Research Associate, Coller School of Management,** Tel-Aviv University.* On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 6:25 PM Dr Michael Baron via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear all, Will the ''statement'' also include mention of the horrible terrorist attack by Hamas on civilians, babies and elderly killed, hostages taken? yours sincerely, Michael Baron
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 14:58, MC Cambre via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org
wrote:
Thank you Sky for this courageous email. A number of societies and associations have statements out on the situation, like this one: https://www.theasa.net/gazastatement and this one:
https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/10/20/mes-amea-joint-statement-on-palest...
Would be good to do something, kindly, cc --
*Dr. Carolina Cambre (she |her) Associate ProfessorConcordia University, Montréal *
*Chercheuse associée à IRCAV-Paris 2020-2025 https://www.carolinacambre.com/ <https://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre>
https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre
<
https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre
*
*Concordia University is located on Kanien’kehá:ka territory.*
*University of Alberta is located on Treaty 6 / Métis territory.*
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:45 PM Tom Hale via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Well said.
-- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies ThomasHaleResearch.com
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott ). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition < https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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I completely agree with you, Dr. Michael Baron. Best regards, D. Elizabeth Cohen On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:35 AM Dr Michael Baron via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear all, Will the ''statement'' also include mention of the horrible terrorist attack by Hamas on civilians, babies and elderly killed, hostages taken? yours sincerely, Michael Baron
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 14:58, MC Cambre via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org
wrote:
Thank you Sky for this courageous email. A number of societies and associations have statements out on the situation, like this one: https://www.theasa.net/gazastatement and this one:
https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/10/20/mes-amea-joint-statement-on-palest...
Would be good to do something, kindly, cc --
*Dr. Carolina Cambre (she |her) Associate ProfessorConcordia University, Montréal *
*Chercheuse associée à IRCAV-Paris 2020-2025 https://www.carolinacambre.com/ <https://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre>
https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre
<
https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre
*
*Concordia University is located on Kanien’kehá:ka territory.*
*University of Alberta is located on Treaty 6 / Métis territory.*
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:45 PM Tom Hale via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Well said.
-- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies ThomasHaleResearch.com
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott ). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition < https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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hmm, if we go back to Oct. 7th then that presents only a 3 month history, effectively erasing the violent Zionist gangs who 'cleared the land' by killing Palestinians - you know the European colonial declaration of 'terra nullius'; let's also not forget the horrors of the massacres of Deir Yassin, and the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly removed from their own land. As academics, let's at least present a good historical record, including the 17 yr. blockade & siege of Gaza, the Apartheid state, & 24/7 surveillance of Palestinians on the occupied territories, the imprisonment, concentration camp, starvation diets and the ever constant incursion of American & European settlers who say, "If I don't take you house, then someone else will!" Sky & others, thank you for initiating this important topic, I am fully in support of a statement, especially in such a repressive, anti-democratic climate as we are currently. Feels like the Mcarthyite era all over again, despite all the talk of 'democracy' & 'Western values' in the imperial West. We haven't learned anything. Warm regards, Firoza On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:18 PM D. Elizabeth Cohen via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I completely agree with you, Dr. Michael Baron.
Best regards,
D. Elizabeth Cohen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:35 AM Dr Michael Baron via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear all, Will the ''statement'' also include mention of the horrible terrorist attack by Hamas on civilians, babies and elderly killed, hostages taken? yours sincerely, Michael Baron
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 14:58, MC Cambre via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org
wrote:
Thank you Sky for this courageous email. A number of societies and associations have statements out on the situation, like this one: https://www.theasa.net/gazastatement and this one:
https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/10/20/mes-amea-joint-statement-on-palest...
Would be good to do something, kindly, cc --
*Dr. Carolina Cambre (she |her) Associate ProfessorConcordia
University,
Montréal *
*Chercheuse associée à IRCAV-Paris 2020-2025 https://www.carolinacambre.com/ <https://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre>
https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre
<
https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre
*
*Concordia University is located on Kanien’kehá:ka territory.*
*University of Alberta is located on Treaty 6 / Métis territory.*
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:45 PM Tom Hale via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Well said.
-- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies ThomasHaleResearch.com
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott ). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection < https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers
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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition < https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left
to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Thank you, Sky for initiating this discussion, and the thoughtful contributions many have made to think through how this community can take action. I would also support issuing of a statement and principles for taking action in support of the end of the blockade, siege, and destruction of Gaza and the Occupation more generally. I agree with Sky and others who have suggested a focus on institutions not individuals, and on issues that our community is most affected by, and the issues our community is best placed to speak authoritatively on. Regards, Glen ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of F. Elavia via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2024 9:38 AM To: dr.deborahcohen@gmail.com <dr.deborahcohen@gmail.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having hmm, if we go back to Oct. 7th then that presents only a 3 month history, effectively erasing the violent Zionist gangs who 'cleared the land' by killing Palestinians - you know the European colonial declaration of 'terra nullius'; let's also not forget the horrors of the massacres of Deir Yassin, and the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly removed from their own land. As academics, let's at least present a good historical record, including the 17 yr. blockade & siege of Gaza, the Apartheid state, & 24/7 surveillance of Palestinians on the occupied territories, the imprisonment, concentration camp, starvation diets and the ever constant incursion of American & European settlers who say, "If I don't take you house, then someone else will!" Sky & others, thank you for initiating this important topic, I am fully in support of a statement, especially in such a repressive, anti-democratic climate as we are currently. Feels like the Mcarthyite era all over again, despite all the talk of 'democracy' & 'Western values' in the imperial West. We haven't learned anything. Warm regards, Firoza On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:18 PM D. Elizabeth Cohen via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I completely agree with you, Dr. Michael Baron.
Best regards,
D. Elizabeth Cohen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:35 AM Dr Michael Baron via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear all, Will the ''statement'' also include mention of the horrible terrorist attack by Hamas on civilians, babies and elderly killed, hostages taken? yours sincerely, Michael Baron
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 14:58, MC Cambre via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org
wrote:
Thank you Sky for this courageous email. A number of societies and associations have statements out on the situation, like this one: https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theasa.net%2Fgazastatement&data=05%7C02%7Cglen.berman%40anu.edu.au%7Cb34763b502884f086a8a08dc1be0b347%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638415899109075304%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ULoeg1h7lpTeTbOz%2F%2FLmZ4WnX%2BE1rZ2DHKo%2BmdDZkYA%3D&reserved=0<https://www.theasa.net/gazastatement> and this one:
Would be good to do something, kindly, cc --
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University,
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:45 PM Tom Hale via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Well said.
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbdsmovemen... ). 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 <
, 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 <
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cglen.berman%40anu.edu.au%7Cb34763b502884f086a8a08dc1be0b347%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638415899109117836%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tcQn7vYcNe0SRzpmBNROYi6tbyd5IUc1vMxBddLKeXU%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Flament-for-the-universities%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cglen.berman%40anu.edu.au%7Cb34763b502884f086a8a08dc1be0b347%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638415899109124856%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Mf%2Bf9LediEgpQGS6ZxOSEykaedqOVWZI%2F%2FrTkfKhG2c%3D&reserved=0<https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
and students <
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Fi-have-left-all-my-books-behind%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cglen.berman%40anu.edu.au%7Cb34763b502884f086a8a08dc1be0b347%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638415899109136245%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=1M581%2FXHWafP%2FNh%2BNf74FA7K5DaLB1KTcVN0TW%2BxPG4%3D&reserved=0<https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnotechforapartheid.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cglen.berman%40anu.edu.au%7Cb34763b502884f086a8a08dc1be0b347%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638415899109166275%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cnn0tYoM0qzDMCWcdyyTzaShJOKv6GsIWqZ8GETyKsM%3D&reserved=0<https://notechforapartheid.com/>>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
jail <
and threats of violence <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.972mag.com%2Fisraeli-protest-gaza-war-repression%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cglen.berman%40anu.edu.au%7Cb34763b502884f086a8a08dc1be0b347%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638415899109181650%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Qnr4ncY5zEzuYB6Am81H%2FyNr%2Bn2WSaUIHndMECXaMlA%3D&reserved=0<https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
. 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://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikiped...
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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishvoiceforpeace.org%2F2023%2F11%2F09%2Fantisemitism-dangerous%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cglen.berman%40anu.edu.au%7Cb34763b502884f086a8a08dc1be0b347%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638415899109192925%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VdFZviydwW5H0uwsKd8V5Y%2F7gn5I23%2FrusSMDHMog2c%3D&reserved=0<https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/> . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
Jewish <
people <
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
a high <
cost <
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAnti-BDS_laws&data=05%7C02%7Cglen.berman%40anu.edu.au%7Cb34763b502884f086a8a08dc1be0b347%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638415899109229109%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DVp2qhNofkBZr3Jr0%2F3Ms2CiRtfJAGjlgzABN30pGeo%3D&reserved=0>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cglen.berman%40anu.edu.au%7Cb34763b502884f086a8a08dc1be0b347%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638415899109232861%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kvp2fPfvs4eYsIeKaNYPWpnR3SjE8xsdqSSPIfETOXs%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Faoir2023%2Faoir2023cfp%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cglen.berman%40anu.edu.au%7Cb34763b502884f086a8a08dc1be0b347%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638415899109237227%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XAbH8b9mLm3xmNIR7QjekS5sDYgeeez83T4muNwx%2Fcw%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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In unconditional agreement and solidarity. Aatika Singh - PhD, Art History, Stanford University On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 at 19:53, Tom Hale via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Well said.
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Thank you, Sky. It took a lot of courage to post this! 100% behind any action decided upon. Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 21, 2024, at 20:39, Aatika Singh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
In unconditional agreement and solidarity. Aatika Singh - PhD, Art History, Stanford University
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 at 19:53, Tom Hale via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Well said.
-- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies ThomasHaleResearch.com
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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RMIT Classification: Trusted I agree Sky. Keen to support Palestine and to stop this genocide. Prof. (Dr) A. Hickey-Moody 0416452466 ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Tom Hale via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 2:41:31 PM To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Well said. -- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies ThomasHaleResearch.com On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbdsmovement.net%2Facademic-boycott&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kEAy3ueZhkTuPgI1pHr9iiyBeRBYEvJhM4Y1ewBfgU4%3D&reserved=0<https://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>>). 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?
, 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 < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Faustralia-news%2F2024%2Fjan%2F17%2Fpenny-wong-meets-israel-katz-isaac-herzog-israel-gaza-palestine-war-meets-hamas-hostages&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3LbGgD7C7Naz8fU7dIp67goKbWz0Tqt7rwfYT3QGFxo%3D&reserved=0<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-israel-katz-isaac-herzog-israel-gaza-palestine-war-meets-hamas-hostages>
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Faustralia-news%2F2024%2Fjan%2F12%2Faustralia-military-support-yemen-airstrikes-us-uk&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FqsrSrgoXYexDgCrkp6OPSLPmohBSvaRwBMw4qai7GQ%3D&reserved=0<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-support-yemen-airstrikes-us-uk>
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ALssqdTICc3hr7VmGpY9jGnoWilTSTDSlzUBLm3GUIU%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-gaza-strikes-continue%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LgtwfSYCa1aSs6j6EsJ5nZqfnWy5H4gmI6iL6ptgFFE%3D&reserved=0<https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-gaza-strikes-continue/>
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Flament-for-the-universities%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Ah57HlXaxgwbvNAPnDAK3rXlj4E5xc0UbyWVyZorfSM%3D&reserved=0<https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnu...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Fi-have-left-all-my-books-behind%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AD%2Bdl%2FqJ2P8XCaDd5e2WHQ7wbp8oemKhkRXPMO7vS%2Fs%3D&reserved=0<https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprotectingeducation.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fimpact_attackeducation_palestine_2022_en.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3XVAauA4hike4gn6qcLY3WQZZk2OdadnXsn686%2B0A58%3D&reserved=0<https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_palestine_2022_en.pdf>
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amnesty.org%2Fen%2Flatest%2Fnews%2F2023%2F05%2Fisrael-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xRD3RP7vwQ7R8CCv23%2BaEPPoakUHsaE1atfJk4WnSYo%3D&reserved=0<https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid/>
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2023%2F12%2F14%2F1218643254%2Fisrael-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YKVADUQfrifqFeml%2FM%2BXWdjPVwBt0cAZppGdq3WTYXY%3D&reserved=0<https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st>
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2023%2F10%2F27%2Fisrael-intensifies-gaza-bombardment-as-internet-and-phone-services-go-down&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=FB4jZIO59yzIBBtBQgaLY716%2FCy5mXl5Z93D9Ohk3Ws%3D&reserved=0<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardment-as-internet-and-phone-services-go-down> , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnotechforapartheid.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3dlwH848xg9n0PMEqg7l7mv3sucB1FlbDQHJL64GFws%3D&reserved=0<https://notechforapartheid.com/>>.
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2F2023%2F11%2F12%2Fisrael-free-speech-arrests-hamas%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zk9Hx%2FBo1vqcGy0jzH8ts6c2EQ8UKAT5VnbYc8dsmCg%3D&reserved=0<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-hamas/>
and threats of violence <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.972mag.com%2Fisraeli-protest-gaza-war-repression%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xhcWG7W%2BTrCTGB%2BBculEubB4e4S2cp0%2FYSsG7TlYtow%3D&reserved=0<https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.france24.com%2Fen%2Flive-news%2F20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-jail-time&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GpGPExm7%2Biy5kkkKEhEloj1x3ERBkHqk1vjI73L2XVU%3D&reserved=0<https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-jail-time>
. 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://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAssociation_of_Internet_Researchers&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BLcT9MtVpqEH7oH3CFDQKgGjVYcEyExPrfRFmFnwh%2FM%3D&reserved=0<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers>> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishvoiceforpeace.org%2F2023%2F11%2F09%2Fantisemitism-dangerous%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ov0QtGkWINO4sh1DTVdluMdbRBcTVGABLofoipIno0U%3D&reserved=0<https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wrmea.org%2F2008-december%2Fisrael-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-untold-history-of-jewish-opposition-to-zionism.html&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dqXHiFDWTNStnRHLAR8jMVS%2FX4G5Z%2BuJT1SqC%2BtEwro%3D&reserved=0<https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-untold-history-of-jewish-opposition-to-zionism.html>
opposition <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjacobin.com%2F2020%2F07%2Fisrael-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hAplqzw8U2G72VxK0RWF63sRFQ1QFLFmBKsqQdlZDfI%3D&reserved=0<https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left>> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2023%2F10%2F23%2Fus%2Fjewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza%2Findex.html&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pG2qm7khMwkM8SndP1clKFZ4djJZzHDWPSDT8OOgFQQ%3D&reserved=0<https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza/index.html>
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthout.org%2Farticles%2Fadvocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-criminalized-warns-academic%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wG8cjVrGiAHSZoqNH8SO9a67P%2FAAtgb20mxxvw3vFbQ%3D&reserved=0<https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-criminalized-warns-academic/>
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAnti-BDS_laws&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=90YV277PRE3Hom%2FKkpq1LGn9TBzld9ngF9nKxDOEcEU%3D&reserved=0<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ndH28J5lDoPMbKQfulAjGYPfC2wM8DFqbMJGHxT2VXQ%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Faoir2023%2Faoir2023cfp%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zEugW%2FUC%2FgwO0BrrhqufTZiythI93JdJmXbqpzARkk4%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Completely agree Other academic associations have issued solidarity statements earlier on. In the current climate it is increasingly and incredibly hard and unsafe to speak up for Gaza and Palestine, in academia in particular As AoiRs we will have already noticed the huge role played by digital technologies in this , from platform censorship to fake news to the use of AI in warfare, so it's not just a little relevant, it is as relevant as it gets, professionally and humanly In solidarityAdi Yahoo Mail: Seamless Account Control On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 6:33 AM, Anna Hickey-Moody via Air-L<air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: RMIT Classification: Trusted I agree Sky. Keen to support Palestine and to stop this genocide. Prof. (Dr) A. Hickey-Moody 0416452466 ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Tom Hale via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 2:41:31 PM To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Well said. -- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies ThomasHaleResearch.com On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:33 Sky Croeser via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbdsmovement.net%2Facademic-boycott&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kEAy3ueZhkTuPgI1pHr9iiyBeRBYEvJhM4Y1ewBfgU4%3D&reserved=0<https://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>>). 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?
, 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 < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Faustralia-news%2F2024%2Fjan%2F17%2Fpenny-wong-meets-israel-katz-isaac-herzog-israel-gaza-palestine-war-meets-hamas-hostages&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3LbGgD7C7Naz8fU7dIp67goKbWz0Tqt7rwfYT3QGFxo%3D&reserved=0<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-israel-katz-isaac-herzog-israel-gaza-palestine-war-meets-hamas-hostages>
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Faustralia-news%2F2024%2Fjan%2F12%2Faustralia-military-support-yemen-airstrikes-us-uk&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FqsrSrgoXYexDgCrkp6OPSLPmohBSvaRwBMw4qai7GQ%3D&reserved=0<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-support-yemen-airstrikes-us-uk>
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ALssqdTICc3hr7VmGpY9jGnoWilTSTDSlzUBLm3GUIU%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-gaza-strikes-continue%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LgtwfSYCa1aSs6j6EsJ5nZqfnWy5H4gmI6iL6ptgFFE%3D&reserved=0<https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-gaza-strikes-continue/>
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Flament-for-the-universities%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Ah57HlXaxgwbvNAPnDAK3rXlj4E5xc0UbyWVyZorfSM%3D&reserved=0<https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnu...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Fi-have-left-all-my-books-behind%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AD%2Bdl%2FqJ2P8XCaDd5e2WHQ7wbp8oemKhkRXPMO7vS%2Fs%3D&reserved=0<https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprotectingeducation.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fimpact_attackeducation_palestine_2022_en.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3XVAauA4hike4gn6qcLY3WQZZk2OdadnXsn686%2B0A58%3D&reserved=0<https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_palestine_2022_en.pdf>
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amnesty.org%2Fen%2Flatest%2Fnews%2F2023%2F05%2Fisrael-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xRD3RP7vwQ7R8CCv23%2BaEPPoakUHsaE1atfJk4WnSYo%3D&reserved=0<https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid/>
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2023%2F12%2F14%2F1218643254%2Fisrael-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YKVADUQfrifqFeml%2FM%2BXWdjPVwBt0cAZppGdq3WTYXY%3D&reserved=0<https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st>
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2023%2F10%2F27%2Fisrael-intensifies-gaza-bombardment-as-internet-and-phone-services-go-down&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=FB4jZIO59yzIBBtBQgaLY716%2FCy5mXl5Z93D9Ohk3Ws%3D&reserved=0<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardment-as-internet-and-phone-services-go-down> , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnotechforapartheid.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3dlwH848xg9n0PMEqg7l7mv3sucB1FlbDQHJL64GFws%3D&reserved=0<https://notechforapartheid.com/>>.
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2F2023%2F11%2F12%2Fisrael-free-speech-arrests-hamas%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zk9Hx%2FBo1vqcGy0jzH8ts6c2EQ8UKAT5VnbYc8dsmCg%3D&reserved=0<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-hamas/>
and threats of violence <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.972mag.com%2Fisraeli-protest-gaza-war-repression%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xhcWG7W%2BTrCTGB%2BBculEubB4e4S2cp0%2FYSsG7TlYtow%3D&reserved=0<https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.france24.com%2Fen%2Flive-news%2F20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-jail-time&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GpGPExm7%2Biy5kkkKEhEloj1x3ERBkHqk1vjI73L2XVU%3D&reserved=0<https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-jail-time>
. 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://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAssociation_of_Internet_Researchers&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048102452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BLcT9MtVpqEH7oH3CFDQKgGjVYcEyExPrfRFmFnwh%2FM%3D&reserved=0<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers>> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishvoiceforpeace.org%2F2023%2F11%2F09%2Fantisemitism-dangerous%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ov0QtGkWINO4sh1DTVdluMdbRBcTVGABLofoipIno0U%3D&reserved=0<https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wrmea.org%2F2008-december%2Fisrael-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-untold-history-of-jewish-opposition-to-zionism.html&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dqXHiFDWTNStnRHLAR8jMVS%2FX4G5Z%2BuJT1SqC%2BtEwro%3D&reserved=0<https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-untold-history-of-jewish-opposition-to-zionism.html>
opposition <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjacobin.com%2F2020%2F07%2Fisrael-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hAplqzw8U2G72VxK0RWF63sRFQ1QFLFmBKsqQdlZDfI%3D&reserved=0<https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left>> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2023%2F10%2F23%2Fus%2Fjewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza%2Findex.html&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pG2qm7khMwkM8SndP1clKFZ4djJZzHDWPSDT8OOgFQQ%3D&reserved=0<https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza/index.html>
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthout.org%2Farticles%2Fadvocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-criminalized-warns-academic%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wG8cjVrGiAHSZoqNH8SO9a67P%2FAAtgb20mxxvw3vFbQ%3D&reserved=0<https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-criminalized-warns-academic/>
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAnti-BDS_laws&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=90YV277PRE3Hom%2FKkpq1LGn9TBzld9ngF9nKxDOEcEU%3D&reserved=0<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ndH28J5lDoPMbKQfulAjGYPfC2wM8DFqbMJGHxT2VXQ%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Faoir2023%2Faoir2023cfp%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canna.hickey-moody%40rmit.edu.au%7Cd53f61e2a9a94d6967ca08dc1afd6abf%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C638414923048258699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zEugW%2FUC%2FgwO0BrrhqufTZiythI93JdJmXbqpzARkk4%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Hello everyone, I completely agree that there is much that AoIR can and should say about what is happening in Gaza. Some of the reasons why the Israeli attacks targeting Gaza are relevant to internet researchers can be seen in this 3-months-old statement <https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/palestine-10-25-23/> by DAIR. Shortly after DAIR's statement, we had a rather heated debate at Labor Tech Research Network <http://labortechresearchnetwork.org/> about endorsing the statement. We did endorse the statement after taking a vote <https://fediscience.org/@labortech@union.place/111479269052133974>, but the process has been rather difficult. This is why I would like to share my blog post <https://academicborderlands.substack.com/p/the-noise-of-state-violence> written as a response to colleagues who were not comfortable with endorsing the statement (I had already stopped using Substack for political reasons by the way, but I made an exception at the time because I did not have another platform, I moved my blog <https://blogs.fediscience.org/academic-borderlands/> to FediScience since then). As a researcher whose latest work focuses on dehumanization on digital platforms, I am willing to offer whatever contribution I can regarding the topic, even though I am perfectly aware of the possible problems such debates can cause. I think having these discussions is essentially a good thing and a part of our responsibility as academics. All the best, Serhat Tutkal El dom, 21 ene 2024 a las 21:41, Sky Croeser via Air-L (< air-l@listserv.aoir.org>) escribió:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 < https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail < https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish < https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people < https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high < https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost < https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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.net_academi...
). 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 < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.oxfam.org_en_press-...
, 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 < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_aus...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_aus...
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.
Because AoIR is < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dan...
“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.thenational.scot_ne...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_lam...
, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_tri...
and students < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_tri...
have been killed, injured, and displaced < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_i-2...
. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__protectingeducation.org... . Calls for protection < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.tandfonline.com_doi... have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amnesty.org_en_late...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.npr.org_2023_12_14_...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.aljazeera.com_news_... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__notechforapartheid.com_... .
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.npr.org_2024_01_19_...
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_...
jail < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.reuters.com_world_m...
and threats of violence < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.972mag.com_israeli-...
, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.france24.com_en_liv... . 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.org_wiki_A...
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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.jewishvoiceforpeace...
. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.wrmea.org_2008-2Dde...
opposition < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__jacobin.com_2020_07_isr...
to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10...
Jewish < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.reuters.com_world_u...
people < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_wor...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__truthout.org_articles_a...
a high < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.thecrimson.com_arti...
cost < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cuindependent.com_2...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_A...
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dan...
, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2... ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Yes, many thanks, Sky and all the respondents so far, indeed. FWIW: I have been wrestling with all of this - in some ways, for more than 5 decades, and from both large perspectives (e.g., Just War Theory, Holocaust studies ..) and more focused ones, e.g., my wife's experience in Israel and Palestine as an Ecumenical Accompanier (see https://eappi.org/en/), and, most specifically, whether or not to respond positively to a request from an Israeli university for a faculty evaluation. I have been appalled beyond all sense and words by much of what has happened with and since the horrific attacks on Oct. 7. I'll let the International Court of Justice determine whether Israel's clearly disproportionate responses (in the fairly clear definitions of Just War Theory) indeed count as war crimes and genocide. (All but certainly in the first case, and rather clearly in the second, so far as I can gather, FWIW.) But the horrific daily slaughter of the innocents - far, far more than actual combatants - in Gaza and the West Bank, coupled with the destruction of all universities in Gaza and what appear to be planned and targeted killings of academics: there's just no room left in my tiny little mind for moral equivocation and uncertainty. (For one account of the attacks on the universities and academics: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6108?fbclid=IwAR3ENgwTaGizaHpC-XQpXQuU... I would welcome any criticism, correction, etc. of this report if anyone has better / more complete information.) We can and should debate whether an apparent genocide unfolding before our eyes calls for a statement of condemnation / solidarity from AoIR. What I think is beyond debate, at least in my tiny little mind: the cultural genocide that has been taking placing for some time on many different fronts and levels now includes academic institutions, professors, students, employees. Whatever our responses to the former, I would call for our developing a strong statement specifically regarding the latter, as events that directly impact and concern us as academics and as an academic organization. Ideally, such a statement would include dialogue with and consideration for our Israeli colleagues as well as our Palestinian ones. I am rather certain that more than one or two of the former are as deeply appalled and horrified as many of the rest of us outside of Israel and Palestine: but that given the current complexity of conditions, they may well find it too difficult to speak or protest openly. If I am right about this, facilitating such a conversation will be that much more difficult indeed. My two cents. Again, many thanks for starting this up. All best, despite it all, - charles ess -- Professor Emeritus University of Oslo http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics: http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428 <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428> On 22/01/2024, 09:43, "Alia ElKattan via Air-L" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org <mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org <mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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.net_academi... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=VWYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM&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 < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.oxfam.org_en_press-... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.oxfam.org_en_press-2Dreleases_daily-2Ddeath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dconflict-2Doxfam&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=Es7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY&e=>
, 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 < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_aus... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_australia-2Dnews_2024_jan_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2Dgaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=S0mk_R5rD7PRdobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0&e=>
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_aus... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_australia-2Dnews_2024_jan_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=QS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8&e=>
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.
Because AoIR is < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dan... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dand-2Dinclusivity_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=zdb3GeVNJiWgHyIV5jiywyKQesYbA4F_Xv7En6vt9_g&e=>
“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.thenational.scot_ne... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2Ddestroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=4hjph_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE&e=>
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_lam... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_lament-2Dfor-2Dthe-2Duniversities_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=6Llq6af44spESU8trqbPNLIqtNLI_Gtwr4oCvQ6CYUY&e=>
, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_tri... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_tributes-2Dto-2Drefaat-2Dalareer-2Dkilled-2Ddec-2D9-2D2023_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=1yaLGsSrCaTjngPaE7q5GwlGCp1MJNKD31yCTcnqa3w&e=>
and students < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_tri... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_tributes-2Dto-2Dmohammed-2Dzaher-2Dhamo-2Dkilled-2Dnov-2D24-2D2023_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=lSs3pevyMwgC3iyz68xp8RCSeVMRWiJ6pCcncTOSDZ4&e=>
have been killed, injured, and displaced < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_i-2... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_i-2Dhave-2Dleft-2Dall-2Dmy-2Dbooks-2Dbehind_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=bVNHNyKDciFfSLl4Lfr_pDS1AWRkKIUdCjlQQ-yv-ko&e=>
. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__protectingeducation.org... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__protectingeducation.org_wp-2Dcontent_uploads_impact-5Fattackeducation-5Fpalestine-5F2022-5Fen.pdf&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=kfaD5kXUupXmxvmAXfZpJeBoMu8zWq4rVu-r7hq6WMo&e=> . Calls for protection < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.tandfonline.com_doi... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.tandfonline.com_doi_full_10.1080_03057925.2021.1987192&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=N009Bbb3NRRmD-PBIuu3lT3zZ04RE5TS-CgsU8CniB0&e=> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amnesty.org_en_late... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amnesty.org_en_latest_news_2023_05_israel-2Dopt-2Disraeli-2Dauthorities-2Dare-2Dusing-2Dfacial-2Drecognition-2Dtechnology-2Dto-2Dentrench-2Dapartheid_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=z3yN16H20IeCLMqYrTQe3VJBAj4SWs08PN15szpM7c4&e=>
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.npr.org_2023_12_14_... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.npr.org_2023_12_14_1218643254_israel-2Dis-2Dusing-2Dan-2Dai-2Dsystem-2Dto-2Dfind-2Dtargets-2Din-2Dgaza-2Dexperts-2Dsay-2Dits-2Djust-2Dthe-2Dst&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=VRBbgVDfEXmO5q6V-UiqsWPO8X6wlhVKPEefh7IsvvQ&e=>
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.aljazeera.com_news_... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.aljazeera.com_news_2023_10_27_israel-2Dintensifies-2Dgaza-2Dbombardment-2Das-2Dinternet-2Dand-2Dphone-2Dservices-2Dgo-2Ddown&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=7zh8kicz0laiHtTm5EDLxghWdHR1vlX0niqo_RwXWTo&e=> , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__notechforapartheid.com_... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__notechforapartheid.com_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=QMKX3ir7awUmHsZr7q84xS7-4Jt7Rtu8UjHOEKJJXL0&e=> .
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.npr.org_2024_01_19_... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.npr.org_2024_01_19_1225651180_israel-2Dtel-2Daviv-2Dprotest-2Dgaza-2Dwar&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=vHdMLRLtOqs-iBo0VZ1iCLM7m_Woiv1gY5rlrAH0VDw&e=>
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_world_2023_11_12_israel-2Dfree-2Dspeech-2Darrests-2Dhamas_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=CDMattXcGS8KmlqZzzSXu_fBiDi-spX3Vq3W5ZgYSgE&e=>
jail < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.reuters.com_world_m... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.reuters.com_world_middle-2Deast_israeli-2Dpolice-2Dcrack-2Ddown-2Darab-2Dcitizens-2Dexpressing-2Dsolidarity-2Dwith-2Dgaza-2D2023-2D10-2D20_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=Mdeym_6VKtaxmyl8NJ4mafl2H0mqBINt7D6dkMRGqeg&e=>
and threats of violence < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.972mag.com_israeli-... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.972mag.com_israeli-2Dprotest-2Dgaza-2Dwar-2Drepression_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=IYhOwSdG-urhS9cgkTMsdz4WJn-qSydxvRHGl77Lleg&e=>
, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.france24.com_en_liv... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.france24.com_en_live-2Dnews_20240115-2Disrael-2Ds-2Dwar-2Dresisters-2Drisk-2Djail-2Dtime&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=Z1tjK1EM3Iu1BuPt7xCCkO1OdsCn0Dz-98xj7lGDML4&e=> . 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.org_wiki_A... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Association-5Fof-5FInternet-5FResearchers&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=JK3xRfUH8400Z5hsCG9Q6mHPZcai0aBzCtw-0GBqt1A&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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.jewishvoiceforpeace... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org_2023_11_09_antisemitism-2Ddangerous_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=Y2sVZ7y9PphIfz8yfArhx1ym3AnznR9C2rJG4bkgN9k&e=>
. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.wrmea.org_2008-2Dde... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.wrmea.org_2008-2Ddecember_israel-2Dand-2Djudaism-2Dthe-2Dlong-2Dand-2Dlargely-2Duntold-2Dhistory-2Dof-2Djewish-2Dopposition-2Dto-2Dzionism.html&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=TznVcbqnhbrxv3AYKf6qZggwJkYyp1K_13jMwGqVjok&e=>
opposition < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__jacobin.com_2020_07_isr... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__jacobin.com_2020_07_israel-2Dpalestine-2Danti-2Dzionism-2Dhistory-2Dleft&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=naEPiysn6lMoXg7QYE4ff-wJquAl1vYB9Yg7bk_CEFg&e=>
to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpalestinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=giDJckAd4bRXVtRcmle-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c&e=>
Jewish < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.reuters.com_world_u... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.reuters.com_world_us_us-2Djewish-2Dgroup-2Dprotests-2Deight-2Dcities-2Dgaza-2Dceasefire-2D2023-2D12-2D15_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=_HvW6OscS_gnbUjgGFrqBZNHyydSlDCZvnl8rUNY1lU&e=>
people < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_wor... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_world_2023_oct_19_jewish-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza-2Dwashington-2Ddc&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=L3BRo1ujWB-EM5SQTA53Y19lVmgP4Q3I05DunEvfvI8&e=>
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__truthout.org_articles_a... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__truthout.org_articles_advocacy-2Dfor-2Dpalestinians-2Dhas-2Dbeen-2Doutright-2Dcriminalized-2Dwarns-2Dacademic_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=5ktQz5plEYO-osR6sKMVqMZ9A_xp4nKnRIdTCPxHYr4&e=>
a high < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.thecrimson.com_arti... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.thecrimson.com_article_2023_12_8_doxxing-2Dstudents-2Dpalestine-2Dfeature_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=SGoo4QAbn39h4pX5gQ0-2hzbT1E-hsIJ_hGKlcx-7vM&e=>
cost < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cuindependent.com_2... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cuindependent.com_2023_11_05_ethnic-2Dstudies-2Dpro-2Dpalestine-2Dstatement-2Dtaken-2Ddown-2Dafter-2Dpushback_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=VZglkOaBgywEPNrqgUpncP-9wDYneOd_aZRaaXZMhf0&e=>
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_A... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=PVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8&e=>
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dan... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dand-2Dinclusivity_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=zdb3GeVNJiWgHyIV5jiywyKQesYbA4F_Xv7En6vt9_g&e=>
, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=ph7FX9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M&e=> ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Dear AIR-L members, I appreciate the discussion on the Middle East conflict. It is very important for us to be concerned about the loss of life and the potential for escalation. I would simply like to issue a reminder that our email conversations are not private and will be archived. http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/ Best, Amy On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:42 AM Charles Melvin Ess via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Yes, many thanks, Sky and all the respondents so far, indeed.
FWIW: I have been wrestling with all of this - in some ways, for more than 5 decades, and from both large perspectives (e.g., Just War Theory, Holocaust studies ..) and more focused ones, e.g., my wife's experience in Israel and Palestine as an Ecumenical Accompanier (see https://eappi.org/en/), and, most specifically, whether or not to respond positively to a request from an Israeli university for a faculty evaluation.
I have been appalled beyond all sense and words by much of what has happened with and since the horrific attacks on Oct. 7. I'll let the International Court of Justice determine whether Israel's clearly disproportionate responses (in the fairly clear definitions of Just War Theory) indeed count as war crimes and genocide. (All but certainly in the first case, and rather clearly in the second, so far as I can gather, FWIW.) But the horrific daily slaughter of the innocents - far, far more than actual combatants - in Gaza and the West Bank, coupled with the destruction of all universities in Gaza and what appear to be planned and targeted killings of academics: there's just no room left in my tiny little mind for moral equivocation and uncertainty. (For one account of the attacks on the universities and academics:
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6108?fbclid=IwAR3ENgwTaGizaHpC-XQpXQuU... I would welcome any criticism, correction, etc. of this report if anyone has better / more complete information.)
We can and should debate whether an apparent genocide unfolding before our eyes calls for a statement of condemnation / solidarity from AoIR. What I think is beyond debate, at least in my tiny little mind: the cultural genocide that has been taking placing for some time on many different fronts and levels now includes academic institutions, professors, students, employees. Whatever our responses to the former, I would call for our developing a strong statement specifically regarding the latter, as events that directly impact and concern us as academics and as an academic organization. Ideally, such a statement would include dialogue with and consideration for our Israeli colleagues as well as our Palestinian ones. I am rather certain that more than one or two of the former are as deeply appalled and horrified as many of the rest of us outside of Israel and Palestine: but that given the current complexity of conditions, they may well find it too difficult to speak or protest openly. If I am right about this, facilitating such a conversation will be that much more difficult indeed.
My two cents. Again, many thanks for starting this up.
All best, despite it all, - charles ess
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On 22/01/2024, 09:43, "Alia ElKattan via Air-L" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org <mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org <mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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.net_academi... < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ&m=nITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG&s=VWYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM&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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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured
them
that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
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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.
Because AoIR is <
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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
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by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <
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, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
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and students <
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have been killed, injured, and displaced <
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. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
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. Calls for protection <
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have gone unheeded.
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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, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <
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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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and threats of violence <
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, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
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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 <
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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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <
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. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
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opposition <
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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims
that
groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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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Jewish <
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people <
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
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a high <
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cost <
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety
of
governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins
of
our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <
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Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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.
Because AoIR is < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dand-2Dinclusivity_%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3Dzdb3GeVNJiWgHyIV5jiywyKQesYbA4F_Xv7En6vt9_g%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjU3MDM6ZTczYz c3ZWZmMjEwZWY0ZTY3MTRiMTllMjUxODNiYWU2NTc2NTg5MGJiODY3OTJlM2MzOGY0NGQw NTA1Mjc5ODpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722484903%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=C0ji%2FQpWqP% 2B9AZRdJnL41PIknads6jqpw4CmbYBPyuw%3D&reserved=0
“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2d/ destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_lament-2Dfor-2Dthe-2Duni versities_%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VTh FwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5 g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D6Llq6af44spESU8trqbPNLIqtNLI_Gtwr4oCvQ6CYUY%26e%3D_ __.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo 2OjAyOWI6ZmRjNDI4YmYzZDU4NWIzNWY5MjAyMTA0MzAzNjQ4YzUwNDY3ZDFmNDE5YjBkZ TQxYmQxZTM3NTY4ODk1Zjk0YzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il% 7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84% 7C1%7C0%7C638415098722496085%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwM DAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdat a=A%2FZiRJl8TAsqD3IJNcFLULZVQq2jtQw0hLAdGch1yNU%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
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I was aware that an argument like this would probably emerge. I feel it is unlikely that we all on this list are likely to agree on the "trigger" for this "war" (though I do not agree that it is a war). I don't think that we need to. There is, as we all know, a long history here that goes back not just to October 7th 2023 but also well before it. I hope that most of us can also agree that however brutal the attacks of 2023 may have been, no action by a small section of a population can justify the widespread massacre of the broader civilian population, including thousands of children. As I have noted, many of us (myself included) live in countries where our governments have spoken against the attacks of October 7th. Many of our governments, including the Australian, have also offered Israel diplomatic or military support in the wake of those attacks. Our governments have not offered the same meaningful action in support of Palestinian civilians under attack. I am aware that many other states engage in unjust violence. I was on the streets when Australia invaded Iraq. I hope we will all continue to protest against our governments when we need to, even as protest is criminalised in many places. We do not have to offer a diagnosis of the full history of the region to speak up against the current actions of the Israeli state. We can say that we will speak up where our governments do not. We can say that nothing justifies the widespread massacre of civilians. We can offer solidarity to students, researchers, and teachers in Palestine who are are among those desperately trying to stay alive. We can offer solidarity to those in Israel and elsewhere who face repression when calling for an end to the attacks on Palestinian civilians. On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 6:43 pm, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum. No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.npr.org_2023_12_14_1218643254_israel-2di/ s-2Dusing-2Dan-2Dai-2Dsystem-2Dto-2Dfind-2Dtargets-2Din-2Dgaza-2Dexper ts-2Dsay-2Dits-2Djust-2Dthe-2Dst%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0 g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhV eAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DVRBbgVDfEXmO5q6V-UiqsWPO8X6wl hVKPEefh7IsvvQ%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjN TY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjlkY2M6NTlkNzlmODQ1ZjE0ODY3OWY2YmQ3MDM0YmYzMDQ wOTQyMzE4MzhkMWJjMjJkMGUwNDY5ZWNjOWRiZTk4MTc2ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cay elet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2 e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722536635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZ sb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3 D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gfS4u4nkAB%2FJavMrLiiDCBjzWX1QPhY6QjDqhlJL4x8% 3D&reserved=0
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, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.france24.com_en_live-2dnews_20240115-2di/ srael-2Ds-2Dwar-2Dresisters-2Drisk-2Djail-2Dtime%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Dsl rrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHq MCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DZ1tjK1EM3Iu1B uPt7xCCkO1OdsCn0Dz-98xj7lGDML4%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmM zg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjZhNDM6ZDUzYzcyN2FjYzI3OThlZmR mMmE4OGY5NWFiY2ViMjc4NTRkZjI5Zjk0ZGIwZTQ3MWFkOWY4ZjU2MWE2ZTFjNTpwOlQ&d ata=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b2657 54%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722578642%7CU nknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1ha WwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GlSSmcONdhI9efLfSg8y8djdp29qal xtSOySRQjsSsw%3D&reserved=0 . They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGZ2ubh_rKyRq3TXPPELXBGKOrjpIAKgMaWpnXAO... . If you want to discuss further please reply directly. Miriyam Aouragh From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum. No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.oxfam.org_en_press-2dreleases_daily-2dde/ ath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dco nflict-2Doxfam%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DEs7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OmRlZDU6NTk0MjllYWNiN2VjODBhNzlkNjBmZmU3NTY5MTJkYzcxODQzYTkxMTFlM jQ1ODZjMTg4NzdlYzI3MzNiZjg5ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722468741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=jlFoDFRZtptQmLmkzwEPkGRoVepjm1Kda5veB%2BoLQGM%3D&reserved=0
, 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2d/ destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_lament-2Dfor-2Dthe-2Duni versities_%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VTh FwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5 g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D6Llq6af44spESU8trqbPNLIqtNLI_Gtwr4oCvQ6CYUY%26e%3D_ __.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo 2OjAyOWI6ZmRjNDI4YmYzZDU4NWIzNWY5MjAyMTA0MzAzNjQ4YzUwNDY3ZDFmNDE5YjBkZ TQxYmQxZTM3NTY4ODk1Zjk0YzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il% 7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84% 7C1%7C0%7C638415098722496085%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwM DAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdat a=A%2FZiRJl8TAsqD3IJNcFLULZVQq2jtQw0hLAdGch1yNU%3D&reserved=0
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. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__protectingeducation.org_wp-2Dcontent_uploads _impact-5Fattackeducation-5Fpalestine-5F2022-5Fen.pdf%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c %3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O- sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DkfaD5kXU upXmxvmAXfZpJeBoMu8zWq4rVu-r7hq6WMo%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzpl MzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjRiMTY6MWQ3MTVlODUzZWM5OD EwOTU3NWYxZDAxNzdjYTE3ODRmMjdiYTQ5YTlhMzRhOWFlNTU4MjNkM2M2NDZlNjY4Njpw OlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1 b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872251998 8%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6 Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WgwuV5sNtLZq%2FHrUi7PuvlM G6FuEgEaPtogfl5EB9mI%3D&reserved=0 . Calls for protection < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.tandfonline.com_doi_full_10.1080_0305792/ 5.2021.1987192%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DN009Bbb3NRRmD-PBIuu3lT3zZ04RE5TS-CgsU8CniB0%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OjQ1NzI6MDI3MWFhMTQyZGIzNjVkYTc4ZGNlYTkxYzYxMGQ4ODYwMjJmMjg2YjliY jc2MDFiYzRkNmMwNzc3NDkxM2ZlYTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722526096%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=EpXkC4xnn78EqWtLQDYlwL4yoQ5vGrTeWnAnL8KYpsQ%3D&reserved=0 have gone unheeded.
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, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.france24.com_en_live-2dnews_20240115-2di/ srael-2Ds-2Dwar-2Dresisters-2Drisk-2Djail-2Dtime%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Dsl rrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHq MCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DZ1tjK1EM3Iu1B uPt7xCCkO1OdsCn0Dz-98xj7lGDML4%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmM zg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjZhNDM6ZDUzYzcyN2FjYzI3OThlZmR mMmE4OGY5NWFiY2ViMjc4NTRkZjI5Zjk0ZGIwZTQ3MWFkOWY4ZjU2MWE2ZTFjNTpwOlQ&d ata=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b2657 54%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722578642%7CU nknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1ha WwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GlSSmcONdhI9efLfSg8y8djdp29qal xtSOySRQjsSsw%3D&reserved=0 . They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best. If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media<https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20> Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<http://www.vikkikatz.com/> | Faculty Profile<https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having External Message [External Message] Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1080%2F19436149.2016.1179432&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7Cdb6f6b7e47f44e06f79408dc1b66e537%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638415375977764784%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vu6mbbHm2KQ83mnqh6zx4VXgxl0l%2Bnh8XBEDwZ5M5e8%3D&reserved=0<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? 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Miriyam Aouragh From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum. No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenati... destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
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Vikki I do not suggest any such thing, it's a strange interpretation and rather unkind how you deliberately word it as suggestive of undemocratic motives. Besides trying to protect activists and those with racialised characteristics (this is exactly what happened on other lists) by warning against falling in the trap of deliberate derailment as is pretty typical of political controversy on listservs, I was indeed also suggesting that once the initial responses are clear and collected, those people continue to organise outside this infrastructure. You surely don't think organising drafts that includes exchanging lists of examples to how to formulate demands is to be done one this list? I've never seen that but by all means go for it. I'd be surprised anyone would want their inboxes clogged that way -and its usually very off-putting leading to potential allies withdrawing - but I am open to try if thats a better approach. Just don't use this argument in order to actually try delegitimise another point, okay? Appreciated! M ________________________________ From: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Sent: 22 January 2024 16:45 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best. If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media<https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20> Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<http://www.vikkikatz.com/> | Faculty Profile<https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having External Message [External Message] Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1080%2F19436149.2016.1179432&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7Cdb6f6b7e47f44e06f79408dc1b66e537%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638415375977764784%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vu6mbbHm2KQ83mnqh6zx4VXgxl0l%2Bnh8XBEDwZ5M5e8%3D&reserved=0<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? 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Miriyam Aouragh From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum. No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dand-2Dinclusivity_%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3Dzdb3GeVNJiWgHyIV5jiywyKQesYbA4F_Xv7En6vt9_g%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OmQ0YzE6NzAyMT I5NDc2ZWEyMzBjMTAyMzVmNjk2Yzc1OTgzOGI1YWQ3N2Q0MTE5NTM0ZjE0NzQ1NWFiMzA1 YzE2Mzc2NDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722668940%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EytPxMOeADV3i aHe7sFyeEWqrs7a0dbqL5zsoKtvg3g%3D&reserved=0
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Miriyam: My message noted that I do not see, as you phrase it, a "clear and collected" mandate on this thread, which itself only reflects the views of a small number of AoIR members. A clear and collected mandate would seem to me to be the impetus for crafting a statement on behalf of an organization, rather than a statement that reflects the perspectives of a set of individuals that could be circulated for signature. I did not accuse you of undemocratic motives. Vikki ________________________________ From: Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 9:57 AM To: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Vikki I do not suggest any such thing, it's a strange interpretation and rather unkind how you deliberately word it as suggestive of undemocratic motives. Besides trying to protect activists and those with racialised characteristics (this is exactly what happened on other lists) by warning against falling in the trap of deliberate derailment as is pretty typical of political controversy on listservs, I was indeed also suggesting that once the initial responses are clear and collected, those people continue to organise outside this infrastructure. You surely don't think organising drafts that includes exchanging lists of examples to how to formulate demands is to be done one this list? I've never seen that but by all means go for it. I'd be surprised anyone would want their inboxes clogged that way -and its usually very off-putting leading to potential allies withdrawing - but I am open to try if thats a better approach. Just don't use this argument in order to actually try delegitimise another point, okay? Appreciated! M ________________________________ From: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Sent: 22 January 2024 16:45 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best. If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media<https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20> Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<http://www.vikkikatz.com/> | Faculty Profile<https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having External Message [External Message] Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1080%2F19436149.2016.1179432&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7Cdb6f6b7e47f44e06f79408dc1b66e537%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638415375977764784%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vu6mbbHm2KQ83mnqh6zx4VXgxl0l%2Bnh8XBEDwZ5M5e8%3D&reserved=0<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? 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Miriyam Aouragh From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum. No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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This is fascinating, the derailment in practice irt. Dont know if you are deliberately misinterpreting or we use different semantics since "once it is" clearky denotes it's in the making. So, I will not engage in this manner about something as absurd as explaining the difference between present and future tense connotations as its clear you are not communicating with me in.good faith. This is a massive mailinglist, let's give the rest here a break. This will be my last reply to you. M ________________________________ From: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Sent: 22 January 2024 18:07 To: Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Miriyam: My message noted that I do not see, as you phrase it, a "clear and collected" mandate on this thread, which itself only reflects the views of a small number of AoIR members. A clear and collected mandate would seem to me to be the impetus for crafting a statement on behalf of an organization, rather than a statement that reflects the perspectives of a set of individuals that could be circulated for signature. I did not accuse you of undemocratic motives. Vikki ________________________________ From: Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 9:57 AM To: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Vikki I do not suggest any such thing, it's a strange interpretation and rather unkind how you deliberately word it as suggestive of undemocratic motives. Besides trying to protect activists and those with racialised characteristics (this is exactly what happened on other lists) by warning against falling in the trap of deliberate derailment as is pretty typical of political controversy on listservs, I was indeed also suggesting that once the initial responses are clear and collected, those people continue to organise outside this infrastructure. You surely don't think organising drafts that includes exchanging lists of examples to how to formulate demands is to be done one this list? I've never seen that but by all means go for it. I'd be surprised anyone would want their inboxes clogged that way -and its usually very off-putting leading to potential allies withdrawing - but I am open to try if thats a better approach. Just don't use this argument in order to actually try delegitimise another point, okay? Appreciated! M ________________________________ From: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Sent: 22 January 2024 16:45 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best. If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media<https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20> Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<http://www.vikkikatz.com/> | Faculty Profile<https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having External Message [External Message] Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1080%2F19436149.2016.1179432&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7Cdb6f6b7e47f44e06f79408dc1b66e537%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638415375977764784%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vu6mbbHm2KQ83mnqh6zx4VXgxl0l%2Bnh8XBEDwZ5M5e8%3D&reserved=0<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? 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Miriyam Aouragh From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum. No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wrmea.o... Djudaism-2Dthe-2Dlong-2Dand-2Dlargely-2Duntold-2Dhistory-2Dof-2Djewish -2Dopposition-2Dto-2Dzionism.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO 0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbh VeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DTznVcbqnhbrxv3AYKf6qZggwJkYy p1K_13jMwGqVjok%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNj NTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJkMGI6NzdlYWQ3YmUyMzE3YmNjODY3ZjJiMTI3ODdmND FjMzlhZDU5MzFmNDI3OTgyYzRjMDBjODJhOTg2NDFmMWFiZjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Ca yelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee 2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722600238%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbG Zsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0% 3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=G5wyjm6VBiyr6cbZur9wxgYnaQnJEVE9MIrdXpREFOc%3 D&reserved=0
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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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AOIR should refrain from making any statement. As seen from this discussion, there’s no real agreement on a position, and there’s no clear “good” side or “bad” side. Atrocities by all parties have been committed in the region since the 1940s. There is no moral high ground here. Rod Carveth Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 1:22:53 PM To: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having This is fascinating, the derailment in practice irt. Dont know if you are deliberately misinterpreting or we use different semantics since "once it is" clearky denotes it's in the making. So, I will not engage in this manner about something as absurd as explaining the difference between present and future tense connotations as its clear you are not communicating with me in.good faith. This is a massive mailinglist, let's give the rest here a break. This will be my last reply to you. M ________________________________ From: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Sent: 22 January 2024 18:07 To: Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Miriyam: My message noted that I do not see, as you phrase it, a "clear and collected" mandate on this thread, which itself only reflects the views of a small number of AoIR members. A clear and collected mandate would seem to me to be the impetus for crafting a statement on behalf of an organization, rather than a statement that reflects the perspectives of a set of individuals that could be circulated for signature. I did not accuse you of undemocratic motives. Vikki ________________________________ From: Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 9:57 AM To: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Vikki I do not suggest any such thing, it's a strange interpretation and rather unkind how you deliberately word it as suggestive of undemocratic motives. Besides trying to protect activists and those with racialised characteristics (this is exactly what happened on other lists) by warning against falling in the trap of deliberate derailment as is pretty typical of political controversy on listservs, I was indeed also suggesting that once the initial responses are clear and collected, those people continue to organise outside this infrastructure. You surely don't think organising drafts that includes exchanging lists of examples to how to formulate demands is to be done one this list? I've never seen that but by all means go for it. I'd be surprised anyone would want their inboxes clogged that way -and its usually very off-putting leading to potential allies withdrawing - but I am open to try if thats a better approach. Just don't use this argument in order to actually try delegitimise another point, okay? Appreciated! M ________________________________ From: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Sent: 22 January 2024 16:45 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best. If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media<https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20> Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<http://www.vikkikatz.com/> | Faculty Profile<https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having External Message [External Message] Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1080%2F19436149.2016.1179432&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7Cdb6f6b7e47f44e06f79408dc1b66e537%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638415375977764784%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vu6mbbHm2KQ83mnqh6zx4VXgxl0l%2Bnh8XBEDwZ5M5e8%3D&reserved=0<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? 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Miriyam Aouragh From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum. No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenati... destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
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I would like to emphasize the importance of refraining from pushing one's political agenda towards a community like our academic one. I would also like to make it clear that any statement that is directly or indirectly can contribute to legitimization of Hamas or any other terrorist organisation for this matter will prompt me to unsubscribe immediately. On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 10:38, Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Vikki I do not suggest any such thing, it's a strange interpretation and rather unkind how you deliberately word it as suggestive of undemocratic motives. Besides trying to protect activists and those with racialised characteristics (this is exactly what happened on other lists) by warning against falling in the trap of deliberate derailment as is pretty typical of political controversy on listservs, I was indeed also suggesting that once the initial responses are clear and collected, those people continue to organise outside this infrastructure. You surely don't think organising drafts that includes exchanging lists of examples to how to formulate demands is to be done one this list? I've never seen that but by all means go for it. I'd be surprised anyone would want their inboxes clogged that way -and its usually very off-putting leading to potential allies withdrawing - but I am open to try if thats a better approach. Just don't use this argument in order to actually try delegitimise another point, okay? Appreciated!
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________________________________ From: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Sent: 22 January 2024 16:45 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Miriyam Aouragh < M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best.
If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic.
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________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
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Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara< https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfo... <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.googl... < https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGZ2ubh_rKyRq3TXPPELXBGKOrjpIAKgMaWpnXAOptM/edit> . If you want to discuss further please reply directly. Miriyam Aouragh
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe.
Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum.
No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread
I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfam.o... ath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dco nflict-2Doxfam%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DEs7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OmRlZDU6NTk0MjllYWNiN2VjODBhNzlkNjBmZmU3NTY5MTJkYzcxODQzYTkxMTFlM jQ1ODZjMTg4NzdlYzI3MzNiZjg5ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722468741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=jlFoDFRZtptQmLmkzwEPkGRoVepjm1Kda5veB%2BoLQGM%3D&reserved=0
, 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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Hey everyone. There are, for sure, many reasons why this conversation needs to happen. But might it be possible to create a forum for those who want to get more actively involved in this? I feel that at this stage this email chain is going away from the usual subject matter of the mailing list... and although it is understandable, as a Salvadoran citizen, for example, I would love also love to see how Air would engage with important political injustices/killing/jailings in Latin America. Still, I feel that a dedicated forum, or opt-in email chain, to discuss stances/statements would be more appropriate. Thanks for your time. Best, On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 13:38, Dr Michael Baron via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I would like to emphasize the importance of refraining from pushing one's political agenda towards a community like our academic one. I would also like to make it clear that any statement that is directly or indirectly can contribute to legitimization of Hamas or any other terrorist organisation for this matter will prompt me to unsubscribe immediately.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 10:38, Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Vikki I do not suggest any such thing, it's a strange interpretation and rather unkind how you deliberately word it as suggestive of undemocratic motives. Besides trying to protect activists and those with racialised characteristics (this is exactly what happened on other lists) by warning against falling in the trap of deliberate derailment as is pretty typical of political controversy on listservs, I was indeed also suggesting that once the initial responses are clear and collected, those people continue to organise outside this infrastructure. You surely don't think organising drafts that includes exchanging lists of examples to how to formulate demands is to be done one this list? I've never seen that but by all means go for it. I'd be surprised anyone would want their inboxes clogged that way -and its usually very off-putting leading to potential allies withdrawing - but I am open to try if thats a better approach. Just don't use this argument in order to actually try delegitimise another point, okay? Appreciated!
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________________________________ From: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Sent: 22 January 2024 16:45 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Miriyam Aouragh < M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best.
If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic.
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Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<
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<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers
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Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum.
No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread
I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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. They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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Thank you so much for your words Miriyam. With apologies for adding to the deluge of messages coming across this listserv, I thought I would chime in and share how the Labor Tech Research Network came to agree to endorse DAIR’s statement (which Serhat previously mentioned). Perhaps AOIR might find some of the points here useful. 1. We moved the discussion off-list into our newly-created Discord. It is true that a listserv is not an ideal place for hard discussions. We created our Discord server with multiple channels for people to discuss what LTRN’s next actions should be. We also made a channel for sharing resources (e.g., articles about genocide and technology, labor actions, existing letters, etc.). We did have content moderation on the Discord. Mostly, this meant asking some members to refrain from posting so often and let others in the group speak. 2. We invited members to form subgroups (as many as they would like) to discuss and propose actions forward. Groups created their own channels on our Discord server. 3. Through these discussions, it became clear that many members wanted our next steps to be put to a vote. We formed another subgroup that workshopped the language of the vote, the options available to voters, the platform to use, etc. 4. We ended up using OpaVote on the basis of multiple recommendations from members (We made it clear that the results of this poll did not preclude LTRN from taking additional actions going forward). Our options were: (1) Endorse the DAIR statement, (2) Write our own statement, (3) do both, and (4) do neither. We had a clear majority vote for endorsing the DAIR statement. As Serhat said, we posted our endorsement on social media. 5. As a result of these discussions, we now have a process in place for future actions. As mentioned previously on this listserv, there are many other crises in the world that AOIR has not made a statement about—I don’t understand why this is being lodged as a criticism against people supporting Palestinians. It’s an opportunity to do more in the future, not a “gotcha” at people who are against the genocide. This could be a moment to pilot a new process for social justice actions within the organization (for example, as Ernesto mentioned, injustices in Latin America). The process was very difficult. It required a lot of emotional one-on-one discussions, and hours and hours of labor. Our most precariously employed members worried about voicing their position publicly, which required a lot of back-end discussions on the part of the leadership team to incorporate their feedback. Some of our members had already been the victims of harassment campaigns at that point. But in the end we were able to come to an agreement—and members who did not agree with the final outcome have still been incredibly supportive and understanding of why LTRN took the action it did, respecting the democratic vote. We also now have a process in place for future social justice actions that can be initiated by members. As an organization dedicated to anti-racist, feminist, and transnational research, I am proud of what we accomplished, as imperfect as it was. I hope some of this information might be helpful going forward. From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ernesto Oyarbide M. via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 2:42 PM To: Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Hey everyone. There are, for sure, many reasons why this conversation needs to happen. But might it be possible to create a forum for those who want to get more actively involved in this? I feel that at this stage this email chain is going away from the usual subject matter of the mailing list... and although it is understandable, as a Salvadoran citizen, for example, I would love also love to see how Air would engage with important political injustices/killing/jailings in Latin America. Still, I feel that a dedicated forum, or opt-in email chain, to discuss stances/statements would be more appropriate. Thanks for your time. Best, On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 13:38, Dr Michael Baron via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I would like to emphasize the importance of refraining from pushing one's political agenda towards a community like our academic one. I would also like to make it clear that any statement that is directly or indirectly can contribute to legitimization of Hamas or any other terrorist organisation for this matter will prompt me to unsubscribe immediately.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 10:38, Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Vikki I do not suggest any such thing, it's a strange interpretation and rather unkind how you deliberately word it as suggestive of undemocratic motives. Besides trying to protect activists and those with racialised characteristics (this is exactly what happened on other lists) by warning against falling in the trap of deliberate derailment as is pretty typical of political controversy on listservs, I was indeed also suggesting that once the initial responses are clear and collected, those people continue to organise outside this infrastructure. You surely don't think organising drafts that includes exchanging lists of examples to how to formulate demands is to be done one this list? I've never seen that but by all means go for it. I'd be surprised anyone would want their inboxes clogged that way -and its usually very off-putting leading to potential allies withdrawing - but I am open to try if thats a better approach. Just don't use this argument in order to actually try delegitimise another point, okay? Appreciated!
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________________________________ From: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Sent: 22 January 2024 16:45 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Miriyam Aouragh < M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best.
If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic.
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________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
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Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<
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<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers
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. If you want to discuss further please reply directly. Miriyam Aouragh
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be
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Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum.
No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread
I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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http://www.tandfonline.com_doi_full_10.1080_0305792/
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have gone unheeded.
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http://www.amnesty.org_en_latest_news_2023_05_israe/
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to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
http://www.npr.org_2023_12_14_1218643254_israel-2di/
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http://www.aljazeera.com_news_2023_10_27_israel-2di/
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http://www.npr.org_2024_01_19_1225651180_israel-2dt/
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http://www.washingtonpost.com_world_2023_11_12_isra/
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http://www.972mag.com_israeli-2dprotest-2dgaza-2dwa/
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, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
http://www.france24.com_en_live-2dnews_20240115-2di/
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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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Association-5Fof-5FInt ernet-5FResearchers%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_q xx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf 6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DJK3xRfUH8400Z5hsCG9Q6mHPZcai0aBzCtw-0GBqt1 A%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOW YzNTE0Mjo2OmRlZGI6YWM3NmFjNjdmYzkwNzFmYzM0ZjdmMGY5ODM3YTYwZWMwYjAzMzky MTY3YTk1MWViN2UzMzRjMjEyYWMwNGZlYTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40techni on.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855 f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722584169%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoi MC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7 C%7C&sdata=OKJ1qm0n48T3gdzGk20I2SkLAPj7PjJ2BwwJe6CSv2M%3D&reserved=0
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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org_2023_11_09_antis/
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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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http://www.reuters.com_world_us_us-2djewish-2dgroup/
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http://www.thecrimson.com_article_2023_12_8_doxxing/
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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In my opinion, the focus should be the ceasefire. What can we all do, if anything, as a group of experts on the Internet to obtain a ceasefire? Don't we all want a ceasefire? How can we use the Internet to get there? I think it is time "to reach out". There will be time "for pointing at". https://www.instagram.com/p/C16y9qhoeiN/?img_index=1 "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;" (John Donne) Jose Alarcón ___________ Phd in Moral and Political Philosophy ___________ Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) - MPhil Thunderbird School of Global Management - MBA ___________ Mobil: +34 628 142 174 E-mail: jfag3@msn.com ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ernesto Oyarbide M. via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 2:00 PM Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Hey everyone. There are, for sure, many reasons why this conversation needs to happen. But might it be possible to create a forum for those who want to get more actively involved in this? I feel that at this stage this email chain is going away from the usual subject matter of the mailing list... and although it is understandable, as a Salvadoran citizen, for example, I would love also love to see how Air would engage with important political injustices/killing/jailings in Latin America. Still, I feel that a dedicated forum, or opt-in email chain, to discuss stances/statements would be more appropriate. Thanks for your time. Best, On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 13:38, Dr Michael Baron via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I would like to emphasize the importance of refraining from pushing one's political agenda towards a community like our academic one. I would also like to make it clear that any statement that is directly or indirectly can contribute to legitimization of Hamas or any other terrorist organisation for this matter will prompt me to unsubscribe immediately.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 10:38, Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Vikki I do not suggest any such thing, it's a strange interpretation and rather unkind how you deliberately word it as suggestive of undemocratic motives. Besides trying to protect activists and those with racialised characteristics (this is exactly what happened on other lists) by warning against falling in the trap of deliberate derailment as is pretty typical of political controversy on listservs, I was indeed also suggesting that once the initial responses are clear and collected, those people continue to organise outside this infrastructure. You surely don't think organising drafts that includes exchanging lists of examples to how to formulate demands is to be done one this list? I've never seen that but by all means go for it. I'd be surprised anyone would want their inboxes clogged that way -and its usually very off-putting leading to potential allies withdrawing - but I am open to try if thats a better approach. Just don't use this argument in order to actually try delegitimise another point, okay? Appreciated!
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________________________________ From: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Sent: 22 January 2024 16:45 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Miriyam Aouragh < M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best.
If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic.
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________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
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Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<
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Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum.
No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread
I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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. They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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I'd add, as a member of the MECCSA list mentioned below - it descended into hateful discourse on both sides, and a pile-on more akin to twitter, of criticism against one Israeli member who was upset at the October 7 attacks, culminating in an attempt to have them excluded from the list. The discussion was halted by the MECCSA list coordinator. It's hardly a model for moving forward here. I second Aram's warning that this is likely to become divisive and harmful and not likely to produce an actual statement people will agree on. Emma 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 08:50, Katz, Vikki via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best.
If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic.
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Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara< https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfo... <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.googl... < https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGZ2ubh_rKyRq3TXPPELXBGKOrjpIAKgMaWpnXAOptM/edit> . If you want to discuss further please reply directly. Miriyam Aouragh
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe.
Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum.
No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread
I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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Dear all, As the nature of the discourse has changed over the ~60 emails distributed so far today, I’m left wondering if this is the right medium through which to have this discussion (especially as some views will, realistically and understandably, not converge). The AoIR statement of Inclusivity* would suggest that some of the actions proposed in this thread are in contradiction (noting the reference to nationality). The AoIR description of the mailing list** suggests it may not be the appropriate medium for this discussion, unless this is considered ‘information dissemination’ which has typically included CfPs, conference announcements, research news, etc.. Perhaps it might instead be more appropriate to have any related suggestion/proposal be submitted directly to the AoIR Executive Committee for consideration and potential action. My best, Constantinos ===== https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/ *AoIR Statement of Inclusivity The Association of Internet Researchers is committed to the inclusion and recognition of all members regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity or nationality, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital status, religious affiliation, and socioeconomic status. We affirm the worth and dignity of every member of the Association. https://aoir.org/mailing-lists/ **Currently, the list has over 5000 subscribers and provides an excellent environment in which to disseminate information, discuss key research concerns, and network with similarly-minded scholars. ===== On Jan 22, 2024, at 5:00 PM, Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: I'd add, as a member of the MECCSA list mentioned below - it descended into hateful discourse on both sides, and a pile-on more akin to twitter, of criticism against one Israeli member who was upset at the October 7 attacks, culminating in an attempt to have them excluded from the list. The discussion was halted by the MECCSA list coordinator. It's hardly a model for moving forward here. I second Aram's warning that this is likely to become divisive and harmful and not likely to produce an actual statement people will agree on. 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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 08:50, Katz, Vikki via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best. If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media< https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20__;!!HXCxU... > Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.vikkikatz.com/__;!!HXCxUKc!zpNjhGm2-F... > | Faculty Profile<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz__... > ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having External Message [External Message] Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara< https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?... <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1943... >> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?... < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGZ2ubh_rKyR... > . If you want to discuss further please reply directly. Miriyam Aouragh From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum. No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: 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. 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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? 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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. 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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. Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. 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Dr. Vikki Katz, I see that you take the silence of most participants as a sign of support to your position in the issue. I am of the opinion that the aggressive and insulting responses have rightly dissuaded most people from participating in the discussion. In any case, at this point the only possible action regarding an AoIR statement is, as Dr. Sinnreich stated, to wait for an official proposal by the AoIR Executive Committee. Dr. Aouragh, on the other hand, has never suggested that some people write a statement and force it to the rest of the AoIR members as a joint statement. I fear that singling her out in this way for an email prior to your last message can lead to making her a target for mass harassment. I sure hope that this was not your aim, but it is always good to be extra careful during discussions about mass violence. I will repost what I had previously shared regarding the discussions. I wrote it three months ago, but I am not seeing new arguments, so I think it is still a good enough response to colleagues who are genuinely asking for elaboration: https://academicborderlands.substack.com/p/the-noise-of-state-violence In the end, I am not that interested in whether AoIR will make a statement or not. I was more interested in the discussion. As it frequently happens, I am disappointed in the results. Dr. Serhat Tutkal El lun, 22 ene 2024 a las 15:56, Katz, Vikki via Air-L (< air-l@listserv.aoir.org>) escribió:
Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best.
If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic.
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Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara< https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfo... <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.googl... < https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGZ2ubh_rKyRq3TXPPELXBGKOrjpIAKgMaWpnXAOptM/edit> . If you want to discuss further please reply directly. Miriyam Aouragh
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe.
Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum.
No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread
I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Serhal, Miriyam and I had a further conversation in private to spare the listserv further discussion. There was no offense intended and I apologized if I had offended inadvertently. If anything, Miriyam's and my interaction earlier today underscores how poorly suited these technologies are to discussions of such complex issues, where nuance, tone, and nonverbal cues are essential to establishing intent. The intent of suggesting wholesale boycotts of our colleagues, as occurred repeatedly on this thread today, is less open to debate. This is best left to the EC of AoIR at this stage. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media<https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20> Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<http://www.vikkikatz.com/> | Faculty Profile<https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz> ________________________________ From: Serhat Tutkal <stutkal@unal.edu.co> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 2:55 PM To: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Dr. Vikki Katz, I see that you take the silence of most participants as a sign of support to your position in the issue. I am of the opinion that the aggressive and insulting responses have rightly dissuaded most people from participating in the discussion. In any case, at this point the only possible action regarding an AoIR statement is, as Dr. Sinnreich stated, to wait for an official proposal by the AoIR Executive Committee. Dr. Aouragh, on the other hand, has never suggested that some people write a statement and force it to the rest of the AoIR members as a joint statement. I fear that singling her out in this way for an email prior to your last message can lead to making her a target for mass harassment. I sure hope that this was not your aim, but it is always good to be extra careful during discussions about mass violence. I will repost what I had previously shared regarding the discussions. I wrote it three months ago, but I am not seeing new arguments, so I think it is still a good enough response to colleagues who are genuinely asking for elaboration: https://academicborderlands.substack.com/p/the-noise-of-state-violence In the end, I am not that interested in whether AoIR will make a statement or not. I was more interested in the discussion. As it frequently happens, I am disappointed in the results. Dr. Serhat Tutkal El lun, 22 ene 2024 a las 15:56, Katz, Vikki via Air-L (<air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>>) escribió: Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best. If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media<https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20> Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<http://www.vikkikatz.com/> | Faculty Profile<https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com<mailto:adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having External Message [External Message] Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1080%2F19436149.2016.1179432&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7Cdb6f6b7e47f44e06f79408dc1b66e537%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638415375977764784%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vu6mbbHm2KQ83mnqh6zx4VXgxl0l%2Bnh8XBEDwZ5M5e8%3D&reserved=0<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432><https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1EGZ2ubh_rKyRq3TXPPELXBGKOrjpIAKgMaWpnXAOptM%2Fedit&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7Cdb6f6b7e47f44e06f79408dc1b66e537%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638415375977773346%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=L21kW90Fd%2BLkQERTGUCpdeC3rAUKGfRzhKYfW3RGu5I%3D&reserved=0<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGZ2ubh_rKyRq3TXPPELXBGKOrjpIAKgMaWpnXAOptM/edit><https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGZ2ubh_rKyRq3TXPPELXBGKOrjpIAKgMaWpnXAOptM/edit> . If you want to discuss further please reply directly. Miriyam Aouragh From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il<mailto:ayelet@technion.ac.il>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum. No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com<http://ect.checkpoint.com/>%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com<http://2furldefense.proofpoint.com/>%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il<http://40technion.ac.il/>%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com<http://ect.checkpoint.com/>%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com<http://2furldefense.proofpoint.com/>%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7Cdb6f6b7e47f44e06f79408dc1b66e537%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638415375977788508%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xjYe1h%2Bp3ubVGtJZHroNkRKFDo33vrXxFR5sOCNOKtI%3D&reserved=0<http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/> n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il<http://40technion.ac.il/>%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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The only statement I could support regarding the genocide carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people is one that includes the following points: 1) An immediate end to all aggression against the Gaza Strip by Israel. 2) An immediate end to all military aid to Israel by the European Union and the United States. 3) The demand for the absolute respect of the UN resolutions systematically breached by the xenophobic, supremacist, racist and theocratic state of Israel. 4) The support of this group to the demand of South Africa to judge the government of Israel for Genocide. Any other statement does not have my support. Regards and free Palestine, Horacio El mar, 23 ene 2024 a las 8:32, Serhat Tutkal via Air-L (< air-l@listserv.aoir.org>) escribió:
Dr. Vikki Katz,
I see that you take the silence of most participants as a sign of support to your position in the issue. I am of the opinion that the aggressive and insulting responses have rightly dissuaded most people from participating in the discussion. In any case, at this point the only possible action regarding an AoIR statement is, as Dr. Sinnreich stated, to wait for an official proposal by the AoIR Executive Committee.
Dr. Aouragh, on the other hand, has never suggested that some people write a statement and force it to the rest of the AoIR members as a joint statement. I fear that singling her out in this way for an email prior to your last message can lead to making her a target for mass harassment. I sure hope that this was not your aim, but it is always good to be extra careful during discussions about mass violence.
I will repost what I had previously shared regarding the discussions. I wrote it three months ago, but I am not seeing new arguments, so I think it is still a good enough response to colleagues who are genuinely asking for elaboration: https://academicborderlands.substack.com/p/the-noise-of-state-violence
In the end, I am not that interested in whether AoIR will make a statement or not. I was more interested in the discussion. As it frequently happens, I am disappointed in the results.
Dr. Serhat Tutkal
El lun, 22 ene 2024 a las 15:56, Katz, Vikki via Air-L (< air-l@listserv.aoir.org>) escribió:
Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best.
If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic.
Vikki
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Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<
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<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers
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From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be
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Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum.
No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread
I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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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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. They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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How disappointing it is to discover that there are researchers here who do not know the simple meaning of the definitions "theocracy", "apartheid", "genocide" and more... maybe they think that "when Palestine will be free" (free of who? All of us Jews living here?) there will be no homophobia, xenophobia and lack of democracy in it. Oh wait, actually they will probably execute people there without trial and throw gays from rooftops as is happening today. The State of Israel will stand for many good years to come, in its morality, despite the ignorance directed towards it by people who are in the comfort of their homes thousands of kilometers away from it and do not face missiles that have been falling on them for twenty years from a land they have completely left. בתאריך יום ג׳, 23 בינו׳ 2024, 23:37, מאת Horacio Espinosa via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org>:
The only statement I could support regarding the genocide carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people is one that includes the following points:
1) An immediate end to all aggression against the Gaza Strip by Israel.
2) An immediate end to all military aid to Israel by the European Union and the United States.
3) The demand for the absolute respect of the UN resolutions systematically breached by the xenophobic, supremacist, racist and theocratic state of Israel.
4) The support of this group to the demand of South Africa to judge the government of Israel for Genocide.
Any other statement does not have my support.
Regards and free Palestine,
Horacio
El mar, 23 ene 2024 a las 8:32, Serhat Tutkal via Air-L (< air-l@listserv.aoir.org>) escribió:
Dr. Vikki Katz,
I see that you take the silence of most participants as a sign of support to your position in the issue. I am of the opinion that the aggressive and insulting responses have rightly dissuaded most people from participating in the discussion. In any case, at this point the only possible action regarding an AoIR statement is, as Dr. Sinnreich stated, to wait for an official proposal by the AoIR Executive Committee.
Dr. Aouragh, on the other hand, has never suggested that some people write a statement and force it to the rest of the AoIR members as a joint statement. I fear that singling her out in this way for an email prior to your last message can lead to making her a target for mass harassment. I sure hope that this was not your aim, but it is always good to be extra careful during discussions about mass violence.
I will repost what I had previously shared regarding the discussions. I wrote it three months ago, but I am not seeing new arguments, so I think it is still a good enough response to colleagues who are genuinely asking for elaboration: https://academicborderlands.substack.com/p/the-noise-of-state-violence
In the end, I am not that interested in whether AoIR will make a statement or not. I was more interested in the discussion. As it frequently happens, I am disappointed in the results.
Dr. Serhat Tutkal
El lun, 22 ene 2024 a las 15:56, Katz, Vikki via Air-L (< air-l@listserv.aoir.org>) escribió:
Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best.
If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic.
Vikki
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Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<
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<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers
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. If you want to discuss further please reply directly. Miriyam Aouragh
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via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe.
Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum.
No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread
I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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. They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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Hi all, Firstly, thank you Sky and everyone for comments, suggestions, getting the conversation started. I think we owe it to our colleagues suffering in Palestine to at least put out a statement. If it’s too difficult for some they can just abstain. In the union movements so far, there have been subgroups such as ‘unionists for Palestine’— we could have a similar approach and sign a statement that way those who disagree or are worried about their jobs or whatever don’t have to sign. It shouldn’t be difficult to organise, and I am happy to be in the subgroup and contribute to such a statement. I am in the same camp as Horacio, if there are no calls for end to genocidal practices, military support, etc than such a statement does not have my support. Let’s get this going. I’m not interested in a back and forth with those who have anti-Palestinian or anti-Arab/SWANA views, rather, I would suggest reading about these issues (including critical scholarship on Palestine and resistance movements) before foaming at the mouth with terrorist accusations. Cheers, Scheherazade Scheherazade Bloul Research assistant PhD Candidate at the UNESCO Chair, Comparative Research in Cultural Diversity and Social Justice Alfred Deakin Institute of Citizenship and Globalisation, Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University<https://mail.deakin.edu.au/ecp/Customize/www.deakin.edu.au> I acknowledge that I meet and work on the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation where sovereignty was never ceded. I pay respect to Elders, past, present, and emerging, and acknowledge the continued resilience of First Nation peoples in the face of ongoing colonisation and settlement. 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125 CRICOS Provider Code 00113B Important Notice: The contents of this email are intended solely for the named addressee and are confidential; any unauthorised use, reproduction or storage of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and any attachments immediately and advise the sender by return email or telephone. From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Horacio Espinosa via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Wednesday, 24 January 2024 at 8:39 am To: Serhat Tutkal <stutkal@unal.edu.co> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having The only statement I could support regarding the genocide carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people is one that includes the following points: 1) An immediate end to all aggression against the Gaza Strip by Israel. 2) An immediate end to all military aid to Israel by the European Union and the United States. 3) The demand for the absolute respect of the UN resolutions systematically breached by the xenophobic, supremacist, racist and theocratic state of Israel. 4) The support of this group to the demand of South Africa to judge the government of Israel for Genocide. Any other statement does not have my support. Regards and free Palestine, Horacio El mar, 23 ene 2024 a las 8:32, Serhat Tutkal via Air-L (< air-l@listserv.aoir.org>) escribió:
Dr. Vikki Katz,
I see that you take the silence of most participants as a sign of support to your position in the issue. I am of the opinion that the aggressive and insulting responses have rightly dissuaded most people from participating in the discussion. In any case, at this point the only possible action regarding an AoIR statement is, as Dr. Sinnreich stated, to wait for an official proposal by the AoIR Executive Committee.
Dr. Aouragh, on the other hand, has never suggested that some people write a statement and force it to the rest of the AoIR members as a joint statement. I fear that singling her out in this way for an email prior to your last message can lead to making her a target for mass harassment. I sure hope that this was not your aim, but it is always good to be extra careful during discussions about mass violence.
I will repost what I had previously shared regarding the discussions. I wrote it three months ago, but I am not seeing new arguments, so I think it is still a good enough response to colleagues who are genuinely asking for elaboration: https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademicborderlands.substack.com%2Fp%2Fthe-noise-of-state-violence&data=05%7C02%7Cscheherazade.bloul%40deakin.edu.au%7C6875fdfe55264a30899d08dc1c5bb740%7Cd02378ec168846d585401c28b5f470f6%7C0%7C0%7C638416427466512329%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=c4mLvOt%2F%2BsBpYpSJgS1HZOh03SUxS%2BEvNWg2HUUbIaA%3D&reserved=0<https://academicborderlands.substack.com/p/the-noise-of-state-violence>
In the end, I am not that interested in whether AoIR will make a statement or not. I was more interested in the discussion. As it frequently happens, I am disappointed in the results.
Dr. Serhat Tutkal
El lun, 22 ene 2024 a las 15:56, Katz, Vikki via Air-L (< air-l@listserv.aoir.org>) escribió:
Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best.
If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic.
Vikki
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________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
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Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<
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From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be
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Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum.
No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread
I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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. They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dand-2Dinclusivity_%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3Dzdb3GeVNJiWgHyIV5jiywyKQesYbA4F_Xv7En6vt9_g%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OmQ0YzE6NzAyMT I5NDc2ZWEyMzBjMTAyMzVmNjk2Yzc1OTgzOGI1YWQ3N2Q0MTE5NTM0ZjE0NzQ1NWFiMzA1 YzE2Mzc2NDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722668940%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EytPxMOeADV3i aHe7sFyeEWqrs7a0dbqL5zsoKtvg3g%3D&reserved=0
, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
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Thank you Serhat That is exactly why I mentioned that people will disengage, mainly because we have different positionalities – I am not surprised that I am an ‘easier’ target – but also as someone else said putting words in peoples mouth, straw-manning or dog whistle tactics have *real* repercussions for some of us. Discursive exercises are *never* equal, don’t we teach that the ideal public sphere is a fata morgana? This said, its exactly as Adi Kuntsman predicted very early on: this dynamic is Hasbara in its essence. As I explained several times - and then was misrepresented, I do not personally care about having a statement *on behalf of* this group. I can even imagine many people have no interest whatsoever, it could be true that it’s not their ‘thing’, which I do respect even if I might not ever like it. More importantly, like you I am not really invested in an Air statement. As much as I want it, the many statements have shown it has no direct weight in the real world, as we see with the UN ceasefire votes or ICJ case, geopolitics and imperialism have different parameters. But like many such exercises, it does have value in what it exposes, the process rather than the outcome, can be liberating. If this mailing-list provided the means with which another community could be established outside of this group, then that should be welcomed. We can’t only want initiatives that mirror our own objectives and ideologies. To those who don’t like the spirit of Palestine solidarity initiatives, they can set up other groups or statements although I do understand it is not very likely garnering the same motivation because those would be the kinds of framings and paradigms already overwhelmingly part of the dominant discourse. Again nobody here is denying that can be done, and equally nobody can stop others. But scaring/demoralising is what smearing (describing their suggestions as being pro-Hamas) and censoring (changing the rules of comms/exchange on a list) and whataboutery (where are your concerns for Sudan or Tibet) does. Even if it’s not surprising it is sad to see this played out on our list. Lets leave it for now as a space for what Sky proposed and support Sky who will be having a hard time digesting the barrage of stressful responses. On that note, and to not bother the list managers who are putting a diet on the comms, I am open to building a new community with the people who do agree on basic parameters. I’d love for us here who share ideas about disseminating the kinds of freedoms we want for ourselves also for others, and try to think beyond only the metaphors of decolonialities we instrumentalise in our writings, to perhaps meet and brainstorm what this could mean for our discipline at this historical juncture. Bw Miriyam From: Serhat Tutkal <stutkal@unal.edu.co> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 23:55 To: Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Miriyam Aouragh <M.Aouragh@westminster.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Dr. Vikki Katz, I see that you take the silence of most participants as a sign of support to your position in the issue. I am of the opinion that the aggressive and insulting responses have rightly dissuaded most people from participating in the discussion. In any case, at this point the only possible action regarding an AoIR statement is, as Dr. Sinnreich stated, to wait for an official proposal by the AoIR Executive Committee. Dr. Aouragh, on the other hand, has never suggested that some people write a statement and force it to the rest of the AoIR members as a joint statement. I fear that singling her out in this way for an email prior to your last message can lead to making her a target for mass harassment. I sure hope that this was not your aim, but it is always good to be extra careful during discussions about mass violence. I will repost what I had previously shared regarding the discussions. I wrote it three months ago, but I am not seeing new arguments, so I think it is still a good enough response to colleagues who are genuinely asking for elaboration: https://academicborderlands.substack.com/p/the-noise-of-state-violence In the end, I am not that interested in whether AoIR will make a statement or not. I was more interested in the discussion. As it frequently happens, I am disappointed in the results. Dr. Serhat Tutkal El lun, 22 ene 2024 a las 15:56, Katz, Vikki via Air-L (<air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>>) escribió: Miriyam: It seems to me that Sky was assessing AoIR members' support for making a statement, and from the responses to their initial message, the support for such a statement is mixed at best. If you are suggesting taking the conversation into a private forum to craft a statement that represents the individuals involved in drafting such a statement rather than AoIR as a whole, that is of course your right. If you are suggesting doing so in order to present some kind of finished product to a membership where a minority of people have weighed in with vastly different viewpoints, that strikes me as neither transparent nor democratic. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media<https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20> Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<http://www.vikkikatz.com/> | Faculty Profile<https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of Miriyam Aouragh via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:50 AM To: Adi Kuntsman <adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com<mailto:adi_kuntsman@yahoo.com>>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having External Message [External Message] Thank you for your message Sky, Thanks for your bravery and please don’t despair. I was initially shocked by the silence here, but soon didn’t expect much else because the moral arguments has led to trench tactics in a lot of formal spaces but also in the general catch-22 (risk being called antisemitic/condoning Hamas is a real concern for poc and junior academics). What is indeed different is that this has especially dominated professional academic spaces—previously the purvey of critical, anti-war, transgressive, intellectual thinking. We can see the impact of decades of neoliberalism and managerial task forces. But thankfully our professional groups are not a barometer. Obviously the rift between ordinary peoples - both in the UK and across the world and our institutions/politicians - has never been this wide. It’s exactly as Adi Kuntsman outlines, for which I thank them, by creating a false Us vs Them framework and by disseminating government-echoed hasbara that is delivered as ordinary voices, merely concern, the discussions are derailed before they even started. but as Adi reminds, this is totally expected so thank you for reminding us to not waste our time on this too much. As someone who works on this, Hasbara<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1080%2F19436149.2016.1179432&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7Cdb6f6b7e47f44e06f79408dc1b66e537%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638415375977764784%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vu6mbbHm2KQ83mnqh6zx4VXgxl0l%2Bnh8XBEDwZ5M5e8%3D&reserved=0<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432><https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432>> is essentially a form of gaslighting/distracting so we focus on defending, explaining and retorting this and that, instead of working in our union branches build solidarity and in our community collectives to increase justice. Let us by all means organise and mobilise, share petitions and sign them, but let us not mistakenly think that any form of liberation comes from discursive struggles where we try to convince people on mailing lists. Probably the best is for those who do want to think further, to contact you directly, and then together with those who already responded positively, you reach out outside of this list, and we can all organise an online meeting to discuss what further options there are? I am happy to help. There are also those who tried to organise the MeCCSA letter about British coverage, they had to endure a lot of abuse, but still did an amazing job. Why not join forces as I see much overlap? I think this was the original letter and list of signatories, some are internet researchers https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1EGZ2ubh_rKyRq3TXPPELXBGKOrjpIAKgMaWpnXAOptM%2Fedit&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7Cdb6f6b7e47f44e06f79408dc1b66e537%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638415375977773346%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=L21kW90Fd%2BLkQERTGUCpdeC3rAUKGfRzhKYfW3RGu5I%3D&reserved=0<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGZ2ubh_rKyRq3TXPPELXBGKOrjpIAKgMaWpnXAOptM/edit><https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGZ2ubh_rKyRq3TXPPELXBGKOrjpIAKgMaWpnXAOptM/edit> . If you want to discuss further please reply directly. Miriyam Aouragh From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of Adi Kuntsman via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 at 12:52 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il<mailto:ayelet@technion.ac.il>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University. Do not click on any links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Dear everyone A response like one by Ayelet below is expected - we hear it all too often in the heated international debate. "yes but". Somehow, the years of Israeli brutal occupation of Gaza and its military and economic control of it which has not at all stopped after Israel's so called "withdrawal"; and the 75-and-counting years of Israeli settler colonialism are conveniently omitted in the requests like this, to focus on what has "triggered" the war, as if the trigger happened in a vacuum. No, I do not excuse Hamas or what happened in October. However, I do think Israel is a violent settler colonial state, ejoying international immpunity- for a very long time and especially in the last 3 months. Yes, the attack on Israelis on the 7th of October is beyond horrific and like many other people with Jewish/Israeli connections, I mourn every child, elder, family assaulted or displaced. But no, this does not excise the wipe out of lives, hopes, schools, hospitals, doctors, journalists in Gaza- not in the last three months and not before- and its a great shame to any Jewish person to allow this to be done in their name. I abhore Israel's manipulation of pain and death, and its abandonment of its own citizens including those the kidnapped. If anyone wants to bring up names and mourn Harry Potters -- which we should! ---make sure these aren't only limited to your own community. The faces and names of every Gazan child killed, and their devastated parents if they were lucky enough to survive, should haunt us all, if we have any humanty left in us. And yet I don't see their names on this thread I shall stop here as the last thing I do is to have two Jewish people dominating the discussion about the horrendous level of violence which is inexcusable- but it was important for me to say this . in solidarityAdi On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:43:11 AM GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com<http://ect.checkpoint.com/>%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com<http://2furldefense.proofpoint.com/>%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il<http://40technion.ac.il/>%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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?)
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us. On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.npr.org_2023_12_14_1218643254_israel-2di/ s-2Dusing-2Dan-2Dai-2Dsystem-2Dto-2Dfind-2Dtargets-2Din-2Dgaza-2Dexper ts-2Dsay-2Dits-2Djust-2Dthe-2Dst%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0 g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhV eAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DVRBbgVDfEXmO5q6V-UiqsWPO8X6wl hVKPEefh7IsvvQ%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjN TY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjlkY2M6NTlkNzlmODQ1ZjE0ODY3OWY2YmQ3MDM0YmYzMDQ wOTQyMzE4MzhkMWJjMjJkMGUwNDY5ZWNjOWRiZTk4MTc2ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cay elet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2 e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722536635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZ sb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3 D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gfS4u4nkAB%2FJavMrLiiDCBjzWX1QPhY6QjDqhlJL4x8% 3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dand-2Dinclusivity_%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3Dzdb3GeVNJiWgHyIV5jiywyKQesYbA4F_Xv7En6vt9_g%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OmQ0YzE6NzAyMT I5NDc2ZWEyMzBjMTAyMzVmNjk2Yzc1OTgzOGI1YWQ3N2Q0MTE5NTM0ZjE0NzQ1NWFiMzA1 YzE2Mzc2NDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722668940%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EytPxMOeADV3i aHe7sFyeEWqrs7a0dbqL5zsoKtvg3g%3D&reserved=0
, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Dear Air-Ls, I am aware that 80 km southwest of my window, there are people in Gaza who can’t imagine a tomorrow, people who lost their kids under rubble, and people who will be shut down dead if they speak against Hamas. And I feel pain for their suffering. But I also know that 61 km southwest from my window is Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara. That people from Gaza, including civilians and even teenagers, just slaughtered, and many, many more publicly celebrated their murder. And I know that each dollar and each litter of gasoline getting into Gaza is mobilized to do that again. This is not an assumption – that’s what Hamas says they’ll do. So, with all my innate optimism, I am unable to imagine a solution. I am lost. Do you have one? I believe it is the place of the international community to create a space for dialogue and hope. But in order to do so, humanitarian messages must demand peace and a safe solution for both sides, including the return of the Israeli hostages kidnapped from their homes and from a party and the cessation of rocket fire on Israel, which my kids and I have experienced for years now. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology From: g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 13:35 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having You don't often get email from mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk<mailto:mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk>. Learn why this is important<https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzpkNDE3MmQzMGMwM2YyY2MzYWFhZTU3MWFjMzI4MWU5Zjo2OmUzMTY6ZWZjZTRjNGNiZTM3NDkwMDkxYzQ3M2FiMjVkYzk4ZmUyMjk5MjlkMzgwMWFlZTk3YTNiZjNlYWZlMDUyOTY3MjpoOlQ> Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us. On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.oxfam.org_en_press-2drelease... ath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dco nflict-2Doxfam%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DEs7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OmRlZDU6NTk0MjllYWNiN2VjODBhNzlkNjBmZmU3NTY5MTJkYzcxODQzYTkxMTFlM jQ1ODZjMTg4NzdlYzI3MzNiZjg5ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722468741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=jlFoDFRZtptQmLmkzwEPkGRoVepjm1Kda5veB%2BoLQGM%3D&reserved=0
, 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2d... n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2d... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Thanks for your reply Ayelet. I don't think we can find a solution as such, but there is a concrete suggestion here by Sky to oppose the destruction of universities and academic infrastructure and so on. Noam, Hamas is considered as a terror organisation in the UK, where I live, and anyone who 'parrots' or perpetuates their propaganda would face very serious consequences including incarceration and deportation. So I'd rather anyone be mindful of this before they throw such an accusation on this public platform. Lastly, Ulrike, you're not in a position to tell me where I should oppose genocide and destruction of academic institutions just because it makes you uncomfortable for some reason (you can simply delete the emails). On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 13:09:09 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, I am aware that 80 km southwest of my window, there are people in Gaza who can’t imagine a tomorrow, people who lost their kids under rubble, and people who will be shut down dead if they speak against Hamas. And I feel pain for their suffering. But I also know that 61 km southwest from my window is Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara. That people from Gaza, including civilians and even teenagers, just slaughtered, and many, many more publicly celebrated their murder. And I know that each dollar and each litter of gasoline getting into Gaza is mobilized to do that again. This is not an assumption – that’s what Hamas says they’ll do. So, with all my innate optimism, I am unable to imagine a solution. I am lost. Do you have one? I believe it is the place of the international community to create a space for dialogue and hope. But in order to do so, humanitarian messages must demand peace and a safe solution for both sides, including the return of the Israeli hostages kidnapped from their homes and from a party and the cessation of rocket fire on Israel, which my kids and I have experienced for years now. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology From: g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 13:35 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having You don't often get email from mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk<mailto:mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk>. Learn why this is important<https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzpkNDE3MmQzMGMwM2YyY2MzYWFhZTU3MWFjMzI4MWU5Zjo2OmUzMTY6ZWZjZTRjNGNiZTM3NDkwMDkxYzQ3M2FiMjVkYzk4ZmUyMjk5MjlkMzgwMWFlZTk3YTNiZjNlYWZlMDUyOTY3MjpoOlQ> Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us. On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2d... n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2d... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Dear AOIR members, don't be afraid to stand up to these far left activists. They are not academics, they are here to push a political agenda. I do not recall any motion by them to take a political stand when dozens of teenage girls were raped, thousands murdered and hundreds including infants taken hostage. If AOIR will join in on this pro-Hamas Jew hating motion, it will prove itself to be just another morally bankrupt far left political organization and not an academic one. Let's keep the politics of the far left (or right, or anyone) out of universities and get back to the business of social scientific academic research that promotes knowledge rather than a political ideology. Best, Guy Golan (Proud American, Proud Israeli, Proud social scientist) * Silence is cowardness, stand up for the university On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 9:30 AM g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thanks for your reply Ayelet. I don't think we can find a solution as such, but there is a concrete suggestion here by Sky to oppose the destruction of universities and academic infrastructure and so on.
Noam, Hamas is considered as a terror organisation in the UK, where I live, and anyone who 'parrots' or perpetuates their propaganda would face very serious consequences including incarceration and deportation. So I'd rather anyone be mindful of this before they throw such an accusation on this public platform.
Lastly, Ulrike, you're not in a position to tell me where I should oppose genocide and destruction of academic institutions just because it makes you uncomfortable for some reason (you can simply delete the emails).
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 13:09:09 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, I am aware that 80 km southwest of my window, there are people in Gaza who can’t imagine a tomorrow, people who lost their kids under rubble, and people who will be shut down dead if they speak against Hamas. And I feel pain for their suffering. But I also know that 61 km southwest from my window is Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara. That people from Gaza, including civilians and even teenagers, just slaughtered, and many, many more publicly celebrated their murder. And I know that each dollar and each litter of gasoline getting into Gaza is mobilized to do that again. This is not an assumption – that’s what Hamas says they’ll do. So, with all my innate optimism, I am unable to imagine a solution. I am lost. Do you have one? I believe it is the place of the international community to create a space for dialogue and hope. But in order to do so, humanitarian messages must demand peace and a safe solution for both sides, including the return of the Israeli hostages kidnapped from their homes and from a party and the cessation of rocket fire on Israel, which my kids and I have experienced for years now. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..)
Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2d... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.thenational.scot_news_240593... destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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I am shock that an AOIR member would call, publicly, several other members of the organization “Jew hating” without reprimand, and remind the poster of the Code of Conduct https://aoir.org/codeofconduct/ and Statement of Principles https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/
On Jan 22, 2024, at 11:40, Guy Golan via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear AOIR members, don't be afraid to stand up to these far left activists. They are not academics, they are here to push a political agenda. I do not recall any motion by them to take a political stand when dozens of teenage girls were raped, thousands murdered and hundreds including infants taken hostage. If AOIR will join in on this pro-Hamas Jew hating motion, it will prove itself to be just another morally bankrupt far left political organization and not an academic one. Let's keep the politics of the far left (or right, or anyone) out of universities and get back to the business of social scientific academic research that promotes knowledge rather than a political ideology. Best, Guy Golan (Proud American, Proud Israeli, Proud social scientist) * Silence is cowardness, stand up for the university
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 9:30 AM g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thanks for your reply Ayelet. I don't think we can find a solution as such, but there is a concrete suggestion here by Sky to oppose the destruction of universities and academic infrastructure and so on.
Noam, Hamas is considered as a terror organisation in the UK, where I live, and anyone who 'parrots' or perpetuates their propaganda would face very serious consequences including incarceration and deportation. So I'd rather anyone be mindful of this before they throw such an accusation on this public platform.
Lastly, Ulrike, you're not in a position to tell me where I should oppose genocide and destruction of academic institutions just because it makes you uncomfortable for some reason (you can simply delete the emails).
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 13:09:09 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, I am aware that 80 km southwest of my window, there are people in Gaza who can’t imagine a tomorrow, people who lost their kids under rubble, and people who will be shut down dead if they speak against Hamas. And I feel pain for their suffering. But I also know that 61 km southwest from my window is Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara. That people from Gaza, including civilians and even teenagers, just slaughtered, and many, many more publicly celebrated their murder. And I know that each dollar and each litter of gasoline getting into Gaza is mobilized to do that again. This is not an assumption – that’s what Hamas says they’ll do. So, with all my innate optimism, I am unable to imagine a solution. I am lost. Do you have one? I believe it is the place of the international community to create a space for dialogue and hope. But in order to do so, humanitarian messages must demand peace and a safe solution for both sides, including the return of the Israeli hostages kidnapped from their homes and from a party and the cessation of rocket fire on Israel, which my kids and I have experienced for years now. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..)
Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2d... n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2d... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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This is extremely insincere, nowhere did this member call anyone Jew-hating? It's dissapointing and quite boring to see a conversation among academics deteriorate into straw-manning and concern trolling. -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Natalie Rock via Air-L Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 6:51 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having EXTERNAL EMAIL: Please be cautious before clicking on any links or downloading attachments. I am shock that an AOIR member would call, publicly, several other members of the organization “Jew hating” without reprimand, and remind the poster of the Code of Conduct https://aoir.org/codeofconduct/ and Statement of Principles https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/
On Jan 22, 2024, at 11:40, Guy Golan via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear AOIR members, don't be afraid to stand up to these far left activists. They are not academics, they are here to push a political agenda. I do not recall any motion by them to take a political stand when dozens of teenage girls were raped, thousands murdered and hundreds including infants taken hostage. If AOIR will join in on this pro-Hamas Jew hating motion, it will prove itself to be just another morally bankrupt far left political organization and not an academic one. Let's keep the politics of the far left (or right, or anyone) out of universities and get back to the business of social scientific academic research that promotes knowledge rather than a political ideology. Best, Guy Golan (Proud American, Proud Israeli, Proud social scientist) * Silence is cowardness, stand up for the university
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 9:30 AM g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thanks for your reply Ayelet. I don't think we can find a solution as such, but there is a concrete suggestion here by Sky to oppose the destruction of universities and academic infrastructure and so on.
Noam, Hamas is considered as a terror organisation in the UK, where I live, and anyone who 'parrots' or perpetuates their propaganda would face very serious consequences including incarceration and deportation. So I'd rather anyone be mindful of this before they throw such an accusation on this public platform.
Lastly, Ulrike, you're not in a position to tell me where I should oppose genocide and destruction of academic institutions just because it makes you uncomfortable for some reason (you can simply delete the emails).
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 13:09:09 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, I am aware that 80 km southwest of my window, there are people in Gaza who can’t imagine a tomorrow, people who lost their kids under rubble, and people who will be shut down dead if they speak against Hamas. And I feel pain for their suffering. But I also know that 61 km southwest from my window is Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara. That people from Gaza, including civilians and even teenagers, just slaughtered, and many, many more publicly celebrated their murder. And I know that each dollar and each litter of gasoline getting into Gaza is mobilized to do that again. This is not an assumption – that’s what Hamas says they’ll do. So, with all my innate optimism, I am unable to imagine a solution. I am lost. Do you have one? I believe it is the place of the international community to create a space for dialogue and hope. But in order to do so, humanitarian messages must demand peace and a safe solution for both sides, including the return of the Israeli hostages kidnapped from their homes and from a party and the cessation of rocket fire on Israel, which my kids and I have experienced for years now. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..)
Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.oxfam.org_en_press-2drelease... ath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dco nflict-2Doxfam%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DEs7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OmRlZDU6NTk0MjllYWNiN2VjODBhNzlkNjBmZmU3NTY5MTJkYzcxODQzYTkxMTFlM jQ1ODZjMTg4NzdlYzI3MzNiZjg5ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722468741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=jlFoDFRZtptQmLmkzwEPkGRoVepjm1Kda5veB%2BoLQGM%3D&reserved=0
, 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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2d... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.thenational.scot_news_240593... destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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screenshot attached On Tue, 23 Jan 2024, 10:29 am Amy Mowle via Air-L, <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
This is extremely insincere, nowhere did this member call anyone Jew-hating? It's dissapointing and quite boring to see a conversation among academics deteriorate into straw-manning and concern trolling.
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Natalie Rock via Air-L Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 6:51 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
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I am shock that an AOIR member would call, publicly, several other members of the organization “Jew hating” without reprimand, and remind the poster of the Code of Conduct https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_codeofconduct_... and Statement of Principles https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dan...
On Jan 22, 2024, at 11:40, Guy Golan via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
wrote:
Dear AOIR members, don't be afraid to stand up to these far left
activists.
They are not academics, they are here to push a political agenda. I do not recall any motion by them to take a political stand when dozens of teenage girls were raped, thousands murdered and hundreds including infants taken hostage. If AOIR will join in on this pro-Hamas Jew hating motion, it will prove itself to be just another morally bankrupt far left political organization and not an academic one. Let's keep the politics of the far left (or right, or anyone) out of universities and get back to the business of social scientific academic research that promotes knowledge rather than a political ideology. Best, Guy Golan (Proud American, Proud Israeli, Proud social scientist) * Silence is cowardness, stand up for the university
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 9:30 AM g. tavmen via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thanks for your reply Ayelet. I don't think we can find a solution as such, but there is a concrete suggestion here by Sky to oppose the destruction of universities and academic infrastructure and so on.
Noam, Hamas is considered as a terror organisation in the UK, where I live, and anyone who 'parrots' or perpetuates their propaganda would face very serious consequences including incarceration and deportation. So I'd rather anyone be mindful of this before they throw such an accusation on this public platform.
Lastly, Ulrike, you're not in a position to tell me where I should oppose genocide and destruction of academic institutions just because it makes you uncomfortable for some reason (you can simply delete the emails).
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 13:09:09 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, I am aware that 80 km southwest of my window, there are people in Gaza who can’t imagine a tomorrow, people who lost their kids under rubble, and people who will be shut down dead if they speak against Hamas. And I feel pain for their suffering. But I also know that 61 km southwest from my window is Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara. That people from Gaza, including civilians and even teenagers, just slaughtered, and many, many more publicly celebrated their murder. And I know that each dollar and each litter of gasoline getting into Gaza is mobilized to do that again. This is not an assumption – that’s what Hamas says they’ll do. So, with all my innate optimism, I am unable to imagine a solution. I am lost. Do you have one? I believe it is the place of the international community to create a space for dialogue and hope. But in order to do so, humanitarian messages must demand peace and a safe solution for both sides, including the return of the Israeli hostages kidnapped from their homes and from a party and the cessation of rocket fire on Israel, which my kids and I have experienced for years now. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..)
Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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 <
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*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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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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
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have gone unheeded.
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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thanks, Natalie! and everyone. Its fascinating, isn't it, how a call to end indiscriminate violence towards Gazans is quickly labelled "proHamas" and Jew hating" ... and a call for boycott a state or its institutions like universities somehow becomes an attack on individual academics-- and as Sky reminded us so crucially, those who concerned about attacks on academics should be very concerned about the deadly assault on Gazan universitires, scholars, and students, so many of whom were killed in the last three months. Even more concerning than the descent into name calling is the piling excuses for the killings and destruction of Gaza- these have reached an unprecedented scale in the last three months, but are in no way new and have a very long history- have we forgotten the 20008-09; 2014, and so many more deadly bombings before and after? my 5p as to whether there can be an official AoIR statement - there hasn't been one so far, and what Sky's email did was opening up a much needed discussion, which in itself is important as I personally cant see how one can comfortably focus on CFPs and paper submissions when atrocities are going on, so many of them supported and financed) by the states and countries that AoiR members are from (US for starters). I second Miriyam's suggestion to draft a solidarity statement by those who want to do so, and to have this discussion off the list. Adi On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 02:19:53 AM GMT, Natalie Rock via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: I am shock that an AOIR member would call, publicly, several other members of the organization “Jew hating” without reprimand, and remind the poster of the Code of Conduct https://aoir.org/codeofconduct/ and Statement of Principles https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/
On Jan 22, 2024, at 11:40, Guy Golan via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear AOIR members, don't be afraid to stand up to these far left activists. They are not academics, they are here to push a political agenda. I do not recall any motion by them to take a political stand when dozens of teenage girls were raped, thousands murdered and hundreds including infants taken hostage. If AOIR will join in on this pro-Hamas Jew hating motion, it will prove itself to be just another morally bankrupt far left political organization and not an academic one. Let's keep the politics of the far left (or right, or anyone) out of universities and get back to the business of social scientific academic research that promotes knowledge rather than a political ideology. Best, Guy Golan (Proud American, Proud Israeli, Proud social scientist) * Silence is cowardness, stand up for the university
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 9:30 AM g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thanks for your reply Ayelet. I don't think we can find a solution as such, but there is a concrete suggestion here by Sky to oppose the destruction of universities and academic infrastructure and so on.
Noam, Hamas is considered as a terror organisation in the UK, where I live, and anyone who 'parrots' or perpetuates their propaganda would face very serious consequences including incarceration and deportation. So I'd rather anyone be mindful of this before they throw such an accusation on this public platform.
Lastly, Ulrike, you're not in a position to tell me where I should oppose genocide and destruction of academic institutions just because it makes you uncomfortable for some reason (you can simply delete the emails).
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 13:09:09 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, I am aware that 80 km southwest of my window, there are people in Gaza who can’t imagine a tomorrow, people who lost their kids under rubble, and people who will be shut down dead if they speak against Hamas. And I feel pain for their suffering. But I also know that 61 km southwest from my window is Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara. That people from Gaza, including civilians and even teenagers, just slaughtered, and many, many more publicly celebrated their murder. And I know that each dollar and each litter of gasoline getting into Gaza is mobilized to do that again. This is not an assumption – that’s what Hamas says they’ll do. So, with all my innate optimism, I am unable to imagine a solution. I am lost. Do you have one? I believe it is the place of the international community to create a space for dialogue and hope. But in order to do so, humanitarian messages must demand peace and a safe solution for both sides, including the return of the Israeli hostages kidnapped from their homes and from a party and the cessation of rocket fire on Israel, which my kids and I have experienced for years now. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..)
Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
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*Why now?*
There are many acts of violence and oppression happening around the world. Why should our academic organisation speak up on this, specifically?
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2d... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.thenational.scot_news_240593... destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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My thoughts exactly, Adi and Natalie -- Thank you for stressing the point and for the other members on this thread who have not succumbed to the attacks and accusations a few individuals have lobbied towards anyone expressing solidarity towards the Palestinians in Gaza. On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 2:09 PM Adi Kuntsman via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
thanks, Natalie! and everyone.
Its fascinating, isn't it, how a call to end indiscriminate violence towards Gazans is quickly labelled "proHamas" and Jew hating" ... and a call for boycott a state or its institutions like universities somehow becomes an attack on individual academics-- and as Sky reminded us so crucially, those who concerned about attacks on academics should be very concerned about the deadly assault on Gazan universitires, scholars, and students, so many of whom were killed in the last three months.
Even more concerning than the descent into name calling is the piling excuses for the killings and destruction of Gaza- these have reached an unprecedented scale in the last three months, but are in no way new and have a very long history- have we forgotten the 20008-09; 2014, and so many more deadly bombings before and after?
my 5p as to whether there can be an official AoIR statement - there hasn't been one so far, and what Sky's email did was opening up a much needed discussion, which in itself is important as I personally cant see how one can comfortably focus on CFPs and paper submissions when atrocities are going on, so many of them supported and financed) by the states and countries that AoiR members are from (US for starters). I second Miriyam's suggestion to draft a solidarity statement by those who want to do so, and to have this discussion off the list.
Adi
On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 02:19:53 AM GMT, Natalie Rock via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I am shock that an AOIR member would call, publicly, several other members of the organization “Jew hating” without reprimand, and remind the poster of the Code of Conduct https://aoir.org/codeofconduct/ and Statement of Principles https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/
On Jan 22, 2024, at 11:40, Guy Golan via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
wrote:
Dear AOIR members, don't be afraid to stand up to these far left
activists.
They are not academics, they are here to push a political agenda. I do not recall any motion by them to take a political stand when dozens of teenage girls were raped, thousands murdered and hundreds including infants taken hostage. If AOIR will join in on this pro-Hamas Jew hating motion, it will prove itself to be just another morally bankrupt far left political organization and not an academic one. Let's keep the politics of the far left (or right, or anyone) out of universities and get back to the business of social scientific academic research that promotes knowledge rather than a political ideology. Best, Guy Golan (Proud American, Proud Israeli, Proud social scientist) * Silence is cowardness, stand up for the university
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 9:30 AM g. tavmen via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thanks for your reply Ayelet. I don't think we can find a solution as such, but there is a concrete suggestion here by Sky to oppose the destruction of universities and academic infrastructure and so on.
Noam, Hamas is considered as a terror organisation in the UK, where I live, and anyone who 'parrots' or perpetuates their propaganda would face very serious consequences including incarceration and deportation. So I'd rather anyone be mindful of this before they throw such an accusation on this public platform.
Lastly, Ulrike, you're not in a position to tell me where I should oppose genocide and destruction of academic institutions just because it makes you uncomfortable for some reason (you can simply delete the emails).
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 13:09:09 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, I am aware that 80 km southwest of my window, there are people in Gaza who can’t imagine a tomorrow, people who lost their kids under rubble, and people who will be shut down dead if they speak against Hamas. And I feel pain for their suffering. But I also know that 61 km southwest from my window is Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara. That people from Gaza, including civilians and even teenagers, just slaughtered, and many, many more publicly celebrated their murder. And I know that each dollar and each litter of gasoline getting into Gaza is mobilized to do that again. This is not an assumption – that’s what Hamas says they’ll do. So, with all my innate optimism, I am unable to imagine a solution. I am lost. Do you have one? I believe it is the place of the international community to create a space for dialogue and hope. But in order to do so, humanitarian messages must demand peace and a safe solution for both sides, including the return of the Israeli hostages kidnapped from their homes and from a party and the cessation of rocket fire on Israel, which my kids and I have experienced for years now. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..)
Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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. They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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Thanks Ayelet for your message and sharing your experience on the ground with us and your vulnerability about this. Kol Tov, Avi Lonny aka "Mixcoatl" ("Our Galaxy" in Nahuatl, language of the Aztecs/Toltecs) Kol Tov L'Hitraot (Be well, see you soon) Lonny J Avi Brooks, PhD. <https://lonny-avi-brooks.com/> *Professor* in Strategic Communication, Foresight and Afrofuturism Department of Communication California State University East Bay *+ Creative Director, Afrorithm Futures Group <https://www.afrorithmsfromthefuture.org/>* *AfroRithm Research Happenings & Bio:* https://linktr.ee/lonnyavibrooks *IG:* @avilonny <https://www.instagram.com/avilonny/> *“She told me the world was made of stories, nothing else, just stories, and stories about stories.” ― Tommy Orange, There There <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/books/review/tommy-orange-there-there.html>* On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 4:53 AM Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, I am aware that 80 km southwest of my window, there are people in Gaza who can’t imagine a tomorrow, people who lost their kids under rubble, and people who will be shut down dead if they speak against Hamas. And I feel pain for their suffering. But I also know that 61 km southwest from my window is Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara. That people from Gaza, including civilians and even teenagers, just slaughtered, and many, many more publicly celebrated their murder. And I know that each dollar and each litter of gasoline getting into Gaza is mobilized to do that again. This is not an assumption – that’s what Hamas says they’ll do. So, with all my innate optimism, I am unable to imagine a solution. I am lost. Do you have one? I believe it is the place of the international community to create a space for dialogue and hope. But in order to do so, humanitarian messages must demand peace and a safe solution for both sides, including the return of the Israeli hostages kidnapped from their homes and from a party and the cessation of rocket fire on Israel, which my kids and I have experienced for years now. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..)
Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com<mailto:scroeser@gmail.com>> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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No one reacted to other messages in this thread that they are “parroting” the Hamas propaganda, so please respect the discussant here even if they are not supporting your agenda. -- Noam Tirosh, Ph.D. Communication Studies Ben - Gurion University of the Negev On Jan 22, 2024 at 14:12 +0200, g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, wrote:
Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.npr.org_2023_12_14_1218643254_israel-2di/ s-2Dusing-2Dan-2Dai-2Dsystem-2Dto-2Dfind-2Dtargets-2Din-2Dgaza-2Dexper ts-2Dsay-2Dits-2Djust-2Dthe-2Dst%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0 g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhV eAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DVRBbgVDfEXmO5q6V-UiqsWPO8X6wl hVKPEefh7IsvvQ%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjN TY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjlkY2M6NTlkNzlmODQ1ZjE0ODY3OWY2YmQ3MDM0YmYzMDQ wOTQyMzE4MzhkMWJjMjJkMGUwNDY5ZWNjOWRiZTk4MTc2ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cay elet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2 e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722536635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZ sb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3 D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gfS4u4nkAB%2FJavMrLiiDCBjzWX1QPhY6QjDqhlJL4x8% 3D&reserved=0
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, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.france24.com_en_live-2dnews_20240115-2di/ srael-2Ds-2Dwar-2Dresisters-2Drisk-2Djail-2Dtime%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Dsl rrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHq MCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DZ1tjK1EM3Iu1B uPt7xCCkO1OdsCn0Dz-98xj7lGDML4%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmM zg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjZhNDM6ZDUzYzcyN2FjYzI3OThlZmR mMmE4OGY5NWFiY2ViMjc4NTRkZjI5Zjk0ZGIwZTQ3MWFkOWY4ZjU2MWE2ZTFjNTpwOlQ&d ata=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b2657 54%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722578642%7CU nknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1ha WwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GlSSmcONdhI9efLfSg8y8djdp29qal xtSOySRQjsSsw%3D&reserved=0 . They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dand-2Dinclusivity_%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3Dzdb3GeVNJiWgHyIV5jiywyKQesYbA4F_Xv7En6vt9_g%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OmQ0YzE6NzAyMT I5NDc2ZWEyMzBjMTAyMzVmNjk2Yzc1OTgzOGI1YWQ3N2Q0MTE5NTM0ZjE0NzQ1NWFiMzA1 YzE2Mzc2NDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722668940%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EytPxMOeADV3i aHe7sFyeEWqrs7a0dbqL5zsoKtvg3g%3D&reserved=0
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I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts). I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about. On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us. On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.oxfam.org_en_press-2dreleases_daily-2dde/ ath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dco nflict-2Doxfam%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DEs7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OmRlZDU6NTk0MjllYWNiN2VjODBhNzlkNjBmZmU3NTY5MTJkYzcxODQzYTkxMTFlM jQ1ODZjMTg4NzdlYzI3MzNiZjg5ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722468741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=jlFoDFRZtptQmLmkzwEPkGRoVepjm1Kda5veB%2BoLQGM%3D&reserved=0
, 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.france24.com_en_live-2dnews_20240115-2di/ srael-2Ds-2Dwar-2Dresisters-2Drisk-2Djail-2Dtime%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Dsl rrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHq MCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DZ1tjK1EM3Iu1B uPt7xCCkO1OdsCn0Dz-98xj7lGDML4%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmM zg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjZhNDM6ZDUzYzcyN2FjYzI3OThlZmR mMmE4OGY5NWFiY2ViMjc4NTRkZjI5Zjk0ZGIwZTQ3MWFkOWY4ZjU2MWE2ZTFjNTpwOlQ&d ata=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b2657 54%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722578642%7CU nknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1ha WwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GlSSmcONdhI9efLfSg8y8djdp29qal xtSOySRQjsSsw%3D&reserved=0 . They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dand-2Dinclusivity_%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3Dzdb3GeVNJiWgHyIV5jiywyKQesYbA4F_Xv7En6vt9_g%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OmQ0YzE6NzAyMT I5NDc2ZWEyMzBjMTAyMzVmNjk2Yzc1OTgzOGI1YWQ3N2Q0MTE5NTM0ZjE0NzQ1NWFiMzA1 YzE2Mzc2NDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722668940%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EytPxMOeADV3i aHe7sFyeEWqrs7a0dbqL5zsoKtvg3g%3D&reserved=0
, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
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Let me be a voice to say that I absolutely oppose AoIR making a statement an organizational statement on an issue with the complexity, deep roots, and deep pain and loss for both Palestinians and Israelis, which its members would oppose or sign from the comfort of lives thousands of miles away from the conflict. If individual members want to make statements for others to sign that go beyond the numerous public statements already available, they should do so. Pushing for an organizational effort will tear at the fabric of this community and compromise trust that will be hard to repair. One need look no further than the response to Ayelet Baram-Tsabari who was brave enough to post on this thread, with deep sympathy for the plight of Gazan civilians, and who nonetheless was immediately painted as a right-winger with demands that she speak for all Israelis and/or the Israeli goverment. We know the technologies and platforms we study are settings where nuance and civility devolve quickly on such emotionally charged issues. The suggestion to boycott Israeli institutions that allegedly side with the current government—thereby excommunicating the scholars who work within them, many of whom spent most of 2023 in the streets protesting this very government—is abhorrent. I hope any moves forward here will remain individual and not become AoIR statements. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media<https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20> Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<http://www.vikkikatz.com/> | Faculty Profile<https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Bolsover, Gillian via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:01 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il>; g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having External Message [External Message] I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts). I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about. On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us. On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenati... destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
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Dear Vikki, Thank you for being a voice of reason in this thread. It's quite disheartening to see Internet and media researchers immediately reduced to a caricature of a web community flame-war, including reducing each other to "propaganda" mouthpieces. I've been hearing all day from many junior AoIR members who are very distraught and are afraid to speak out in fear of reprisal and career repercussions. At the very least, we should be able to hold complex conversations in this space without it becoming a social-media style contest for most likes and best personal attacks. Alex Alex Gekker, PhD. Assistant Professor in Digital Research Methods, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Profile and publications <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6042-2086> // a.gekker@uva.nl // tw: @AlexGekker <http://twitter.com/alexgekker> // mastodon @gekker@aoir.social <https://aoir.social/@gekker> Recent work includes a breakdown of QAnon as participatory digital play in SM+S <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231157300>, an analysis of “gamified” stock trading <https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jgvw_00062_1>, a post-mortem of Google Maps’ Covid-19 Layer <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20501579221143325>, and a NMS paper on platformisation in cars <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221104209> On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 19:24, Katz, Vikki via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Let me be a voice to say that I absolutely oppose AoIR making a statement an organizational statement on an issue with the complexity, deep roots, and deep pain and loss for both Palestinians and Israelis, which its members would oppose or sign from the comfort of lives thousands of miles away from the conflict. If individual members want to make statements for others to sign that go beyond the numerous public statements already available, they should do so. Pushing for an organizational effort will tear at the fabric of this community and compromise trust that will be hard to repair.
One need look no further than the response to Ayelet Baram-Tsabari who was brave enough to post on this thread, with deep sympathy for the plight of Gazan civilians, and who nonetheless was immediately painted as a right-winger with demands that she speak for all Israelis and/or the Israeli goverment. We know the technologies and platforms we study are settings where nuance and civility devolve quickly on such emotionally charged issues. The suggestion to boycott Israeli institutions that allegedly side with the current government—thereby excommunicating the scholars who work within them, many of whom spent most of 2023 in the streets protesting this very government—is abhorrent.
I hope any moves forward here will remain individual and not become AoIR statements.
Vikki
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________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Bolsover, Gillian via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:01 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il>; g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
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I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts).
I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about.
On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfam.o... ath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dco nflict-2Doxfam%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DEs7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OmRlZDU6NTk0MjllYWNiN2VjODBhNzlkNjBmZmU3NTY5MTJkYzcxODQzYTkxMTFlM jQ1ODZjMTg4NzdlYzI3MzNiZjg5ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722468741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=jlFoDFRZtptQmLmkzwEPkGRoVepjm1Kda5veB%2BoLQGM%3D&reserved=0
, 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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenati... destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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I echo and wholeheartedly agree with Vikki. This is an incredibly complex issue for which there is deep generational, intergenerational, and ongoing trauma for Palestinians and Israelis. It is not a topic on which there will uniform agreement among AoIR membership—nor should there be. As a society with a global membership, we have a wide range of views and lived experiences. Moreover, the notion of boycotting academic institutions in Israeli is antisemitic, if not in intention, then at the very least in practice. Calls for it historically have a chilling effect on Jews and Israelis inside and outside of the academy, as they did in the Soviet USSR. Meryl From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Katz, Vikki via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il>, g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk>, Bolsover, Gillian <Gillian.Bolsover@hpi.de> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Let me be a voice to say that I absolutely oppose AoIR making a statement an organizational statement on an issue with the complexity, deep roots, and deep pain and loss for both Palestinians and Israelis, which its members would oppose or sign from the comfort of lives thousands of miles away from the conflict. If individual members want to make statements for others to sign that go beyond the numerous public statements already available, they should do so. Pushing for an organizational effort will tear at the fabric of this community and compromise trust that will be hard to repair. One need look no further than the response to Ayelet Baram-Tsabari who was brave enough to post on this thread, with deep sympathy for the plight of Gazan civilians, and who nonetheless was immediately painted as a right-winger with demands that she speak for all Israelis and/or the Israeli goverment. We know the technologies and platforms we study are settings where nuance and civility devolve quickly on such emotionally charged issues. The suggestion to boycott Israeli institutions that allegedly side with the current government—thereby excommunicating the scholars who work within them, many of whom spent most of 2023 in the streets protesting this very government—is abhorrent. I hope any moves forward here will remain individual and not become AoIR statements. 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I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about. On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us. On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenati... destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
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As I asked of Vikki, I would repeat my question whether this distaste for collective punishment (even at the level of reduced access to academic opportunities) might extend to some public statement in support of Palestinian academics and academic institutions under attack, without any call for involvement in the BDS movement? On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 11:13 am, Alper, Meryl via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I echo and wholeheartedly agree with Vikki. This is an incredibly complex issue for which there is deep generational, intergenerational, and ongoing trauma for Palestinians and Israelis. It is not a topic on which there will uniform agreement among AoIR membership—nor should there be. As a society with a global membership, we have a wide range of views and lived experiences.
Moreover, the notion of boycotting academic institutions in Israeli is antisemitic, if not in intention, then at the very least in practice. Calls for it historically have a chilling effect on Jews and Israelis inside and outside of the academy, as they did in the Soviet USSR.
Meryl
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Katz, Vikki via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il>, g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk>, Bolsover, Gillian <Gillian.Bolsover@hpi.de> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Let me be a voice to say that I absolutely oppose AoIR making a statement an organizational statement on an issue with the complexity, deep roots, and deep pain and loss for both Palestinians and Israelis, which its members would oppose or sign from the comfort of lives thousands of miles away from the conflict. If individual members want to make statements for others to sign that go beyond the numerous public statements already available, they should do so. Pushing for an organizational effort will tear at the fabric of this community and compromise trust that will be hard to repair.
One need look no further than the response to Ayelet Baram-Tsabari who was brave enough to post on this thread, with deep sympathy for the plight of Gazan civilians, and who nonetheless was immediately painted as a right-winger with demands that she speak for all Israelis and/or the Israeli goverment. We know the technologies and platforms we study are settings where nuance and civility devolve quickly on such emotionally charged issues. The suggestion to boycott Israeli institutions that allegedly side with the current government—thereby excommunicating the scholars who work within them, many of whom spent most of 2023 in the streets protesting this very government—is abhorrent.
I hope any moves forward here will remain individual and not become AoIR statements.
Vikki
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________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Bolsover, Gillian via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:01 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il>; g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
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I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts).
I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about.
On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfam.o... ath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dco nflict-2Doxfam%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DEs7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OmRlZDU6NTk0MjllYWNiN2VjODBhNzlkNjBmZmU3NTY5MTJkYzcxODQzYTkxMTFlM jQ1ODZjMTg4NzdlYzI3MzNiZjg5ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722468741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=jlFoDFRZtptQmLmkzwEPkGRoVepjm1Kda5veB%2BoLQGM%3D&reserved=0
, 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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenati... destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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It is impossible to dialogue when any critical opinion to the state of Israel is taken as anti-semitism and jew-hating. It explains A LOT what is going on in Gaza and why the international community tend to defend the other side. Intolerance for the difference. Not quite different from what Hamas did - except on the extension of the damage. Shame on you, Israel. The Palestinian state must be recognized ASAP!! Em terça-feira, 23 de janeiro de 2024, Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> escreveu:
As I asked of Vikki, I would repeat my question whether this distaste for collective punishment (even at the level of reduced access to academic opportunities) might extend to some public statement in support of Palestinian academics and academic institutions under attack, without any call for involvement in the BDS movement?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 11:13 am, Alper, Meryl via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I echo and wholeheartedly agree with Vikki. This is an incredibly complex issue for which there is deep generational, intergenerational, and ongoing trauma for Palestinians and Israelis. It is not a topic on which there will uniform agreement among AoIR membership—nor should there be. As a society with a global membership, we have a wide range of views and lived experiences.
Moreover, the notion of boycotting academic institutions in Israeli is antisemitic, if not in intention, then at the very least in practice. Calls for it historically have a chilling effect on Jews and Israelis inside and outside of the academy, as they did in the Soviet USSR.
Meryl
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Katz, Vikki via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il>, g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk , Bolsover, Gillian <Gillian.Bolsover@hpi.de> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Let me be a voice to say that I absolutely oppose AoIR making a statement an organizational statement on an issue with the complexity, deep roots, and deep pain and loss for both Palestinians and Israelis, which its members would oppose or sign from the comfort of lives thousands of miles away from the conflict. If individual members want to make statements for others to sign that go beyond the numerous public statements already available, they should do so. Pushing for an organizational effort will tear at the fabric of this community and compromise trust that will be hard to repair.
One need look no further than the response to Ayelet Baram-Tsabari who was brave enough to post on this thread, with deep sympathy for the plight of Gazan civilians, and who nonetheless was immediately painted as a right-winger with demands that she speak for all Israelis and/or the Israeli goverment. We know the technologies and platforms we study are settings where nuance and civility devolve quickly on such emotionally charged issues. The suggestion to boycott Israeli institutions that allegedly side with the current government—thereby excommunicating the scholars who work within them, many of whom spent most of 2023 in the streets protesting this very government—is abhorrent.
I hope any moves forward here will remain individual and not become AoIR statements.
Vikki
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________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Bolsover, Gillian via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:01 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il>; g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk
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I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts).
I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about.
On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url= http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja% 2F&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu% 7C3f38d0637ddb494ab08508dc1b7610fa%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b92 15e7%7C0%7C0%7C638415441135832243%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAw MDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000% 7C%7C%7C&sdata=O%2B%2Fc0MkY28rUlfWCCpNkFnIsz4gOKNN hA6yZgg0Cq%2FQ%3D&reserved=0 n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__
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Thank you, Sky, for starting this conversation. Like you, I think that silence is not an option. I am certainly keen to have conversations with like-minded fellow academics on how we can contribute to stopping this massacre and support an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine beyond the usual things, the participation in marches and the sharing of information on social media platforms. It is clear by now that such conversations need to be moved somewhere else. Nik has correctly pointed out, that this list would never agree on the wording of a statement. It is also clear that many AOIR members do not want a discussion on this topic via AOIR. The way forward, it seems, is to create a platform (perhaps a new list?) for those of us who are keen to have these conversations. Andreas
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Yes, a separate list seems to be warranted. I would be happy to join it. Elena On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:35 AM Andreas Wittel via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thank you, Sky, for starting this conversation. Like you, I think that silence is not an option. I am certainly keen to have conversations with like-minded fellow academics on how we can contribute to stopping this massacre and support an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine beyond the usual things, the participation in marches and the sharing of information on social media platforms.
It is clear by now that such conversations need to be moved somewhere else. Nik has correctly pointed out, that this list would never agree on the wording of a statement. It is also clear that many AOIR members do not want a discussion on this topic via AOIR. The way forward, it seems, is to create a platform (perhaps a new list?) for those of us who are keen to have these conversations.
Andreas
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Dear AOIR, Since this conversation will not be resolved via email, I reiterate Constantinos' sentiments about the appropriateness of this medium for the discussion. I propose that the discussion be moved to the AOIR Discussion Forum. https://members.aoir.org/Discussion-Forums Thank you. Best, Amy On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 4:48 PM Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
As I asked of Vikki, I would repeat my question whether this distaste for collective punishment (even at the level of reduced access to academic opportunities) might extend to some public statement in support of Palestinian academics and academic institutions under attack, without any call for involvement in the BDS movement?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 11:13 am, Alper, Meryl via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I echo and wholeheartedly agree with Vikki. This is an incredibly complex issue for which there is deep generational, intergenerational, and ongoing trauma for Palestinians and Israelis. It is not a topic on which there will uniform agreement among AoIR membership—nor should there be. As a society with a global membership, we have a wide range of views and lived experiences.
Moreover, the notion of boycotting academic institutions in Israeli is antisemitic, if not in intention, then at the very least in practice. Calls for it historically have a chilling effect on Jews and Israelis inside and outside of the academy, as they did in the Soviet USSR.
Meryl
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Katz, Vikki via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il>, g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk , Bolsover, Gillian <Gillian.Bolsover@hpi.de> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Let me be a voice to say that I absolutely oppose AoIR making a statement an organizational statement on an issue with the complexity, deep roots, and deep pain and loss for both Palestinians and Israelis, which its members would oppose or sign from the comfort of lives thousands of miles away from the conflict. If individual members want to make statements for others to sign that go beyond the numerous public statements already available, they should do so. Pushing for an organizational effort will tear at the fabric of this community and compromise trust that will be hard to repair.
One need look no further than the response to Ayelet Baram-Tsabari who was brave enough to post on this thread, with deep sympathy for the plight of Gazan civilians, and who nonetheless was immediately painted as a right-winger with demands that she speak for all Israelis and/or the Israeli goverment. We know the technologies and platforms we study are settings where nuance and civility devolve quickly on such emotionally charged issues. The suggestion to boycott Israeli institutions that allegedly side with the current government—thereby excommunicating the scholars who work within them, many of whom spent most of 2023 in the streets protesting this very government—is abhorrent.
I hope any moves forward here will remain individual and not become AoIR statements.
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I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts).
I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about.
On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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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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have gone unheeded.
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. They deserve our support and solidarity.
*Why **are we** silent?*
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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 resonate deeply with Nik's message as AoIR president earlier today that the war has had enormous costs but should not cost AoIR its community, and believe others feel strongly about that shared value as well. Given the amount of pain that has been raised on this thread, Sky, I respectfully begin answering your question to Meryl and to me with one of my own: Can you clearly articulate the material benefits of what you are calling for? We are an association of internet researchers. Exactly no one is waiting to hear from us as a collective on geopolitical issues, especially 100+ days into this war when the death tolls are mercifully half of what they were a month ago<https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/briefing/israel-gaza-war-death-toll.html#:~:text=The%20daily%20death%20toll%20in,a%20change%20in%20war%20strategy.> and continuing to decline. If you wish to develop a statement of concern about the ways that technologies of surveillance are used in conflict, presuming that that is your area of scholarly expertise, that could make sense to do. I remain unsure why you feel that such a statement would need to come from the full association rather than being something generated by a subset of concerned scholars that anyone, AoIR affiliated or not, could sign if they choose. The same goes for a statement of concern for Palestinian academics and universities, of which many have already been circulated internationally in the past 3.5 months. If you feel a new version of such a statement will accomplish something important in the reality of this ongoing crisis, then you should of course pursue it with collaborators of your choosing, but it does not need to be issued by AoIR. I fully understand the impetus to do something, to say something, in the face of great suffering. The suffering is one of many commonalities between Palestinians and Israelis, two peoples native to the land who deserve equally to live in safety and whose children deserve to thrive in conditions of mutual security. There will be much work and moral courage needed toward these goals when this war concludes, and it is one of my deepest hopes to see those mutual rights realized in my lifetime. I grew up in South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s in an anti-apartheid family, so I speak from that experience in saying that what we do and say matters. For those of us with the great fortune not to live in this or other war zones around the world, our greatest responsibility, from our position of distance and comfort, is to open more doors and windows than we close for the people who live those conflicts—and their resolutions—up close. Boycotting our Israeli colleagues or their institutions (which is a distinction without a difference) does not advance such values, and I believe that those colleagues are owed an apology by those who have called for this drastic, anti-community move in the past two days. Sky asked me a direct question and so I have responded, but I am also mindful that the EC has asked that we leave decisions to them to deliberate at this stage, so this will be my last comment on this thread. Vikki -- Vikki Katz, Ph.D. Professor | Chapman University School of Communication 1 University Drive, Orange CA 92866 Editor | Journal of Children and Media<https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rchm20> Cell: 310.918.0428 | Website<http://www.vikkikatz.com/> | Faculty Profile<https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vikki-katz> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Sky Croeser via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 7:40 PM To: Alper, Meryl <m.alper@northeastern.edu> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having External Message [External Message] As I asked of Vikki, I would repeat my question whether this distaste for collective punishment (even at the level of reduced access to academic opportunities) might extend to some public statement in support of Palestinian academics and academic institutions under attack, without any call for involvement in the BDS movement? On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 11:13 am, Alper, Meryl via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I echo and wholeheartedly agree with Vikki. This is an incredibly complex issue for which there is deep generational, intergenerational, and ongoing trauma for Palestinians and Israelis. It is not a topic on which there will uniform agreement among AoIR membership—nor should there be. As a society with a global membership, we have a wide range of views and lived experiences.
Moreover, the notion of boycotting academic institutions in Israeli is antisemitic, if not in intention, then at the very least in practice. Calls for it historically have a chilling effect on Jews and Israelis inside and outside of the academy, as they did in the Soviet USSR.
Meryl
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Katz, Vikki via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il>, g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk>, Bolsover, Gillian <Gillian.Bolsover@hpi.de> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Let me be a voice to say that I absolutely oppose AoIR making a statement an organizational statement on an issue with the complexity, deep roots, and deep pain and loss for both Palestinians and Israelis, which its members would oppose or sign from the comfort of lives thousands of miles away from the conflict. If individual members want to make statements for others to sign that go beyond the numerous public statements already available, they should do so. Pushing for an organizational effort will tear at the fabric of this community and compromise trust that will be hard to repair.
One need look no further than the response to Ayelet Baram-Tsabari who was brave enough to post on this thread, with deep sympathy for the plight of Gazan civilians, and who nonetheless was immediately painted as a right-winger with demands that she speak for all Israelis and/or the Israeli goverment. We know the technologies and platforms we study are settings where nuance and civility devolve quickly on such emotionally charged issues. The suggestion to boycott Israeli institutions that allegedly side with the current government—thereby excommunicating the scholars who work within them, many of whom spent most of 2023 in the streets protesting this very government—is abhorrent.
I hope any moves forward here will remain individual and not become AoIR statements.
Vikki
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________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Bolsover, Gillian via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:01 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il>; g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
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I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts).
I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about.
On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7C0fb7e8e05aed45fba18c08dc1c2a79e0%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638416215997602324%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LQ1wbXOaaVL%2BVB%2Bnvrem9D92rcrx4leoc%2FA2HZxAiJ0%3D&reserved=0<http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/> n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2d%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cvikkikatz%40chapman.edu%7C0fb7e8e05aed45fba18c08dc1c2a79e0%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C638416215997606637%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Hd6osMce1s%2ByF6TH2z3%2BV8IT3Zb%2Fw1MnHfMi460vf30%3D&reserved=0<http://www.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2d/> destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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Have death tolls declined? Or have those who were able to count the deaths (particularly hospital staff) been overwhelmed or killed? If the death tolls are really reducing, does that mean we can all relax and simply wait for the situation to play out? Since you brought up South Africa, I also grew up in an anti-apartheid family. My father is Afrikaans, and both of my parents grew up in South Africa. I was born in Zimbabwe, where my father escaped to in order to avoid the draft. He decided that despite what his parents said about it being his duty to defend South Africa from terrorism, he could not stomach it. One of his brothers did go to the army. My mother studied at Wits at the time, so she has a direct understanding of what it was like to be a student subject to the BDS movement of the time. She tells me that she grew up utterly believing what the South African government said about the need to combat the ANC's terrorism. She was so scared of terrorists. It was only the Sharpeville massacre, and the arrest and torture of several of the young men in one of her classes (who she describes as very soft and gentle), that shifted her perspective. Do I think a statement from AoIR will somehow stop a genocide? No. That is not how social movements work. Did my mother handing out pamphlets for the ANC and getting arrested for it stop apartheid? No. Did my father refusing the draft, and subsequently experiencing a deep rift with his family, stop apartheid? No. Did a few singers refusing to perform in l South Africa stop apartheid? No. Did the ban on international sporting events stop it? Did international sanctions from some countries? Did academic boycotts? No, no, no. Would it have been better if no one had gone to protests, no one had refused the draft, no academic institutions had issued statements, no one had difficult conversations, no one had made colleagues uncomfortable? Would I think better of my parents if they had not taken their small ineffective actions? Would apartheid have ended sooner if no one had taken any actions that would not, in themselves, materially end apartheid? Perhaps I am wrong thinking it was millions of people doing their small part that helped create the impetus for change. Along the way, they also helped those who were resisting apartheid to feel like they were not forgotten. Of course there are many things we could do as a community that might have a greater material effect than issuing a statement of solidarity with Palestinian academics under attack. But given the controversy that has resulted from the suggestion that we at the least call for an end to the bombing of universities and the attack on civilians, that does not seem like a path worth discussing here. I live in Perth. I have two small children, and have not been able to make it to international conferences over the last few years. This is one of the few spaces where I can seek academic community. While it certainly seems unlikely that the organisation will issue a strong statement, opening the discussion has allowed my to find colleagues who are committed to the values professed in AoIR's charter and we will discuss further actions beyond this list. Of course anyone is welcome to contact me about that, including those like you who seem to feel we should do something more materially consequential than a statement of solidarity. On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 3:28 am, Katz, Vikki <vikkikatz@chapman.edu> wrote:
I resonate deeply with Nik's message as AoIR president earlier today that the war has had enormous costs but should not cost AoIR its community, and believe others feel strongly about that shared value as well.
Given the amount of pain that has been raised on this thread, Sky, I respectfully begin answering your question to Meryl and to me with one of my own: Can you clearly articulate the material benefits of what you are calling for? We are an association of internet researchers. Exactly no one is waiting to hear from us as a collective on geopolitical issues, especially 100+ days into this war when the death tolls are mercifully half of what they were a month ago <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/briefing/israel-gaza-war-death-toll.html#:~:text=The%20daily%20death%20toll%20in,a%20change%20in%20war%20strategy.> and continuing to decline. If you wish to develop a statement of concern about the ways that technologies of surveillance are used in conflict, presuming that that is your area of scholarly expertise, that could make sense to do. I remain unsure why you feel that such a statement would need to come from the full association rather than being something generated by a subset of concerned scholars that anyone, AoIR affiliated or not, could sign if they choose. The same goes for a statement of concern for Palestinian academics and universities, of which many have already been circulated internationally in the past 3.5 months. If you feel a new version of such a statement will accomplish something important in the reality of this ongoing crisis, then you should of course pursue it with collaborators of your choosing, but it does not need to be issued by AoIR.
I fully understand the impetus to do something, to say something, in the face of great suffering. The suffering is one of many commonalities between Palestinians and Israelis, two peoples native to the land who deserve equally to live in safety and whose children deserve to thrive in conditions of mutual security. There will be much work and moral courage needed toward these goals when this war concludes, and it is one of my deepest hopes to see those mutual rights realized in my lifetime. I grew up in South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s in an anti-apartheid family, so I speak from that experience in saying that what we do and say matters. For those of us with the great fortune not to live in this or other war zones around the world, our greatest responsibility, from our position of distance and comfort, is to open more doors and windows than we close for the people who live those conflicts—and their resolutions—up close. Boycotting our Israeli colleagues or their institutions (which is a distinction without a difference) does not advance such values, and I believe that those colleagues are owed an apology by those who have called for this drastic, anti-community move in the past two days.
Sky asked me a direct question and so I have responded, but I am also mindful that the EC has asked that we leave decisions to them to deliberate at this stage, so this will be my last comment on this thread.
Vikki
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I agree with Vikki that an academic boycott of colleagues is not the answer and excluding colleagues who are vastly more informed about the region (and making this an even more Anglo-American centric community) is indeed counterproductive to reaching a peaceful outcome in the conflict. I don't think there's harm in a statement on the situation and Israel's actions if it also includes a statement on Hamas' actions and the hostages, and calls for peace and rallies academic focus on pathways to resolution or efforts to help Palestinian colleagues get to safety somehow. I can't see any reason why the actions of Hamas should be omitted from any statement, it's not like they are protecting the Palestinian people. Emma 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 05:24, Katz, Vikki via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Let me be a voice to say that I absolutely oppose AoIR making a statement an organizational statement on an issue with the complexity, deep roots, and deep pain and loss for both Palestinians and Israelis, which its members would oppose or sign from the comfort of lives thousands of miles away from the conflict. If individual members want to make statements for others to sign that go beyond the numerous public statements already available, they should do so. Pushing for an organizational effort will tear at the fabric of this community and compromise trust that will be hard to repair.
One need look no further than the response to Ayelet Baram-Tsabari who was brave enough to post on this thread, with deep sympathy for the plight of Gazan civilians, and who nonetheless was immediately painted as a right-winger with demands that she speak for all Israelis and/or the Israeli goverment. We know the technologies and platforms we study are settings where nuance and civility devolve quickly on such emotionally charged issues. The suggestion to boycott Israeli institutions that allegedly side with the current government—thereby excommunicating the scholars who work within them, many of whom spent most of 2023 in the streets protesting this very government—is abhorrent.
I hope any moves forward here will remain individual and not become AoIR statements.
Vikki
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I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts).
I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about.
On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguar... n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenati... destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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Excuse the strong language but this very discussion clearly demonstrates how an academic community of intellectuals (such as AOIR) can be (gradually) turned into a community of the so called ''useful idiots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot'' that can (without even realizing it) throw their weight in support of terrorism and a terrorist organisation like Hamas. cheers, Michael On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 01:53, Bolsover, Gillian via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts).
I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about.
On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2d/ destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_lament-2Dfor-2Dthe-2Duni versities_%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VTh FwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5 g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D6Llq6af44spESU8trqbPNLIqtNLI_Gtwr4oCvQ6CYUY%26e%3D_ __.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo 2OjAyOWI6ZmRjNDI4YmYzZDU4NWIzNWY5MjAyMTA0MzAzNjQ4YzUwNDY3ZDFmNDE5YjBkZ TQxYmQxZTM3NTY4ODk1Zjk0YzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il% 7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84% 7C1%7C0%7C638415098722496085%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwM DAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdat a=A%2FZiRJl8TAsqD3IJNcFLULZVQq2jtQw0hLAdGch1yNU%3D&reserved=0
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. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__protectingeducation.org_wp-2Dcontent_uploads _impact-5Fattackeducation-5Fpalestine-5F2022-5Fen.pdf%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c %3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O- sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DkfaD5kXU upXmxvmAXfZpJeBoMu8zWq4rVu-r7hq6WMo%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzpl MzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjRiMTY6MWQ3MTVlODUzZWM5OD EwOTU3NWYxZDAxNzdjYTE3ODRmMjdiYTQ5YTlhMzRhOWFlNTU4MjNkM2M2NDZlNjY4Njpw OlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1 b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872251998 8%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6 Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WgwuV5sNtLZq%2FHrUi7PuvlM G6FuEgEaPtogfl5EB9mI%3D&reserved=0 . Calls for protection < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.tandfonline.com_doi_full_10.1080_0305792/ 5.2021.1987192%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DN009Bbb3NRRmD-PBIuu3lT3zZ04RE5TS-CgsU8CniB0%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OjQ1NzI6MDI3MWFhMTQyZGIzNjVkYTc4ZGNlYTkxYzYxMGQ4ODYwMjJmMjg2YjliY jc2MDFiYzRkNmMwNzc3NDkxM2ZlYTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722526096%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=EpXkC4xnn78EqWtLQDYlwL4yoQ5vGrTeWnAnL8KYpsQ%3D&reserved=0 have gone unheeded.
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to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.npr.org_2023_12_14_1218643254_israel-2di/ s-2Dusing-2Dan-2Dai-2Dsystem-2Dto-2Dfind-2Dtargets-2Din-2Dgaza-2Dexper ts-2Dsay-2Dits-2Djust-2Dthe-2Dst%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0 g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhV eAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DVRBbgVDfEXmO5q6V-UiqsWPO8X6wl hVKPEefh7IsvvQ%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjN TY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjlkY2M6NTlkNzlmODQ1ZjE0ODY3OWY2YmQ3MDM0YmYzMDQ wOTQyMzE4MzhkMWJjMjJkMGUwNDY5ZWNjOWRiZTk4MTc2ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cay elet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2 e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722536635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZ sb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3 D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gfS4u4nkAB%2FJavMrLiiDCBjzWX1QPhY6QjDqhlJL4x8% 3D&reserved=0
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.aljazeera.com_news_2023_10_27_israel-2di/ ntensifies-2Dgaza-2Dbombardment-2Das-2Dinternet-2Dand-2Dphone-2Dservic es-2Dgo-2Ddown%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D7zh8kicz0laiHtTm5EDLxghWdHR1vlX0niqo_RwXWTo%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OjhiOWM6ZmEyOWQ0Y2U5NzUzMDk0ZDVjZWU4Y2E3Y2U2YmY2NmQyMWMyYjE3MTA4O Dc4N2UzMTJiZGQxYTUzMzRiZjQwNzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722542402%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=p4dBn3EkErcudA9d8PBZXsOiBeJGgUqX0MZU6QKxA2c%3D&reserved=0 , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__notechforapartheid.com_%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DQMKX3ir7awUm HsZr7q84xS7-4Jt7Rtu8UjHOEKJJXL0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OmQ0Njg6ZjIyYzdkNWM2MzkzZDE0MT Y2ZmUxM2I4ODJlNDdkNjg5M2JhZDRiZmI3YjBjYzNjOTc4MzJjNTU1NTQzNWE4ODpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722547827%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Fh25RzoV%2BvYE1a24%2BYWOrsKrD BSvlVn38KSuzfLjWdo%3D&reserved=0 .
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the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.washingtonpost.com_world_2023_11_12_isra/ el-2Dfree-2Dspeech-2Darrests-2Dhamas_%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gB JbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophce BAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DCDMattXcGS8KmlqZzzSXu_fB iDi-spX3Vq3W5ZgYSgE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3 MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdiODI6ODA4YmY0OTcxY2Q5OTFjYzZhZGQ4MDUxMT UzYzgwMzVhODhmNzY3MWU1MmYwNGJjMTEwN2RiMDUwM2Y4MjM5OTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02 %7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c 4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722559334%7CUnknown%7CTW FpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6 Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rIvBUvk7adLfuPGPesGEI8Ku0PyxakUml9w1ViSrq bA%3D&reserved=0
jail < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.reuters.com_world_middle-2deast_israeli-/ 2Dpolice-2Dcrack-2Ddown-2Darab-2Dcitizens-2Dexpressing-2Dsolidarity-2D with-2Dgaza-2D2023-2D10-2D20_%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-I Q%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAP nRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DMdeym_6VKtaxmyl8NJ4mafl2H0mqBINt 7D6dkMRGqeg%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5 N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjU2OGE6NjljODVhOWM4OWVmZmYwOGQ4OTc3NGRjY2QwMTk0NT cyYzg2NWFmNWU0MjMxMjRiOWU0ZjNkZGFkMTYzNDAzMTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayele t%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e41 1c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722564623%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3 d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7 C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7YH1YU4Xdr1oULe0EQGNIzGYNrUhX5ht19SpnXHZv7w%3D&re served=0
and threats of violence < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.972mag.com_israeli-2dprotest-2dgaza-2dwa/ r-2Drepression_%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8h R7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRm C-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DIYhOwSdG-urhS9cgkTMsdz4WJn-qSydxvRHGl77Lleg%26 e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNT E0Mjo2OmY2NzI6NjQ4Mjk5ZTE2MmIwMjY2NjBjYTM3ZGIyODVlMGQyZjJhNjNlNGNhMDU3 OTgzMTVjNmYyYTk5Yzk3YzVmMmIxYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.a c.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f675 3b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722571032%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4w LjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C &sdata=Pvq6zVnV0ET8cV9%2Buc7u%2FKKTPkPmbceuBU4yMBoS60Y%3D&reserved=0
, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.france24.com_en_live-2dnews_20240115-2di/ srael-2Ds-2Dwar-2Dresisters-2Drisk-2Djail-2Dtime%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Dsl rrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHq MCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DZ1tjK1EM3Iu1B uPt7xCCkO1OdsCn0Dz-98xj7lGDML4%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmM zg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjZhNDM6ZDUzYzcyN2FjYzI3OThlZmR mMmE4OGY5NWFiY2ViMjc4NTRkZjI5Zjk0ZGIwZTQ3MWFkOWY4ZjU2MWE2ZTFjNTpwOlQ&d ata=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b2657 54%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722578642%7CU nknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1ha WwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GlSSmcONdhI9efLfSg8y8djdp29qal xtSOySRQjsSsw%3D&reserved=0 . 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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Association-5Fof-5FInt ernet-5FResearchers%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_q xx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf 6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DJK3xRfUH8400Z5hsCG9Q6mHPZcai0aBzCtw-0GBqt1 A%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOW YzNTE0Mjo2OmRlZGI6YWM3NmFjNjdmYzkwNzFmYzM0ZjdmMGY5ODM3YTYwZWMwYjAzMzky MTY3YTk1MWViN2UzMzRjMjEyYWMwNGZlYTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40techni on.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855 f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722584169%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoi MC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7 C%7C&sdata=OKJ1qm0n48T3gdzGk20I2SkLAPj7PjJ2BwwJe6CSv2M%3D&reserved=0
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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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My apologies if I ask for clarification here, as perhaps I am confused. Given that no one in this list has made any statements in support of Hamas (unless I have somehow missed something important), is this a claim that those of us who have suggested that: 1) we issue some statement in support of Palestinian academics and institutions who are currently being bombed, starved and displaced, and/or 2) we make some other call for a cessation of the attacks on civilians in Gaza (and potentially also elsewhere), and/or 3) we upon the global BDS call are "useful idiots" who unknowingly or secretly support terrorism? Just so that I can be clear. On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 2:25 pm, Dr Michael Baron via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Excuse the strong language but this very discussion clearly demonstrates how an academic community of intellectuals (such as AOIR) can be (gradually) turned into a community of the so called ''useful idiots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot'' that can (without even realizing it) throw their weight in support of terrorism and a terrorist organisation like Hamas. cheers, Michael
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 01:53, Bolsover, Gillian via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts).
I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about.
On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.oxfam.org_en_press-2dreleases_daily-2dde/ ath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dco nflict-2Doxfam%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DEs7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OmRlZDU6NTk0MjllYWNiN2VjODBhNzlkNjBmZmU3NTY5MTJkYzcxODQzYTkxMTFlM jQ1ODZjMTg4NzdlYzI3MzNiZjg5ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722468741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=jlFoDFRZtptQmLmkzwEPkGRoVepjm1Kda5veB%2BoLQGM%3D&reserved=0
, 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2d/ destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.wrmea.org_2008-2ddecember_israel-2dand-2/ Djudaism-2Dthe-2Dlong-2Dand-2Dlargely-2Duntold-2Dhistory-2Dof-2Djewish -2Dopposition-2Dto-2Dzionism.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO 0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbh VeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DTznVcbqnhbrxv3AYKf6qZggwJkYy p1K_13jMwGqVjok%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNj NTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJkMGI6NzdlYWQ3YmUyMzE3YmNjODY3ZjJiMTI3ODdmND FjMzlhZDU5MzFmNDI3OTgyYzRjMDBjODJhOTg2NDFmMWFiZjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Ca yelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee 2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722600238%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbG Zsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0% 3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=G5wyjm6VBiyr6cbZur9wxgYnaQnJEVE9MIrdXpREFOc%3 D&reserved=0
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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dand-2Dinclusivity_%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3Dzdb3GeVNJiWgHyIV5jiywyKQesYbA4F_Xv7En6vt9_g%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OmQ0YzE6NzAyMT I5NDc2ZWEyMzBjMTAyMzVmNjk2Yzc1OTgzOGI1YWQ3N2Q0MTE5NTM0ZjE0NzQ1NWFiMzA1 YzE2Mzc2NDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722668940%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EytPxMOeADV3i aHe7sFyeEWqrs7a0dbqL5zsoKtvg3g%3D&reserved=0
, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
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It is clear that for Zionists, whether academics or not, anyone who calls for an end to the war against Palestine is a "useful idiot" who secretly or unwittingly supports Hamas. For if life has taught me anything, it is that imbecility and cynicism is found even among those with gleaming academic degrees. El mar, 23 ene 2024 a las 16:33, Sky Croeser via Air-L (< air-l@listserv.aoir.org>) escribió:
My apologies if I ask for clarification here, as perhaps I am confused.
Given that no one in this list has made any statements in support of Hamas (unless I have somehow missed something important), is this a claim that those of us who have suggested that: 1) we issue some statement in support of Palestinian academics and institutions who are currently being bombed, starved and displaced, and/or 2) we make some other call for a cessation of the attacks on civilians in Gaza (and potentially also elsewhere), and/or 3) we upon the global BDS call
are "useful idiots" who unknowingly or secretly support terrorism?
Just so that I can be clear.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 2:25 pm, Dr Michael Baron via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Excuse the strong language but this very discussion clearly demonstrates how an academic community of intellectuals (such as AOIR) can be (gradually) turned into a community of the so called ''useful idiots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot'' that can (without even realizing it) throw their weight in support of terrorism and a terrorist organisation like Hamas. cheers, Michael
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 01:53, Bolsover, Gillian via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I support the idea of AoIR issuing a statement, as well as the idea of focusing in that on the issues that our community is most affected by or able to take action in respect of (in particular the effects on students, academics and education in Gaza as well as articulating any principles that AoIR members are encouraged to follow, such as proposed boycotts).
I understand this will be hard in such as large, diverse and bottom-up community, but I appreciate the bottom-up efforts to bring this about.
On the debate, I believe it is imperative that we are able to mention the suffering of one group without that necessarily implying the discounting of the suffering of another. ________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von g. tavmen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 12:34 An: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> Betreff: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Ayelet, you basically parrot the official Israeli propaganda that we hear over and over again on media but I'd be much more interested in what you actually have to suggest. So would you like us to ignore the catastrophic situation in Gaza because Hamas attacked first? (which, by the way, is also not true but let's go with your skewed argument..) Can you please advise as an Israeli how should we respond to the death of thousands of children, destruction of hospitals and all of the universities in Gaza and many other atrocities? Really interested in hearing this instead of telling us something we hear over and over again every single day on mass media. What should be the next step? Please guide us.
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:49:50 GMT, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.oxfam.org_en_press-2dreleases_daily-2dde/
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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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/
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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.
Because AoIR is < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2d/
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by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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. Calls for protection < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.tandfonline.com_doi_full_10.1080_0305792/
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have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.amnesty.org_en_latest_news_2023_05_israe/
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to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.npr.org_2023_12_14_1218643254_israel-2di/
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. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.aljazeera.com_news_2023_10_27_israel-2di/
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, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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.
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.npr.org_2024_01_19_1225651180_israel-2dt/
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the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.washingtonpost.com_world_2023_11_12_isra/
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jail < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.reuters.com_world_middle-2deast_israeli-/
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and threats of violence < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.972mag.com_israeli-2dprotest-2dgaza-2dwa/
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, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.france24.com_en_live-2dnews_20240115-2di/
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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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org_2023_11_09_antis/
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. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.wrmea.org_2008-2ddecember_israel-2dand-2/
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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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Thanks for your message, Ayelet. Best, Cristiane Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:15:57 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.oxfam.org_en_press-2dreleases_daily-2dde/ ath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dco nflict-2Doxfam%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DEs7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OmRlZDU6NTk0MjllYWNiN2VjODBhNzlkNjBmZmU3NTY5MTJkYzcxODQzYTkxMTFlM jQ1ODZjMTg4NzdlYzI3MzNiZjg5ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722468741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=jlFoDFRZtptQmLmkzwEPkGRoVepjm1Kda5veB%2BoLQGM%3D&reserved=0
, 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__http://www.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2d/ destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_diversity-2Dand-2Dinclusivity_%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3Dzdb3GeVNJiWgHyIV5jiywyKQesYbA4F_Xv7En6vt9_g%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OmQ0YzE6NzAyMT I5NDc2ZWEyMzBjMTAyMzVmNjk2Yzc1OTgzOGI1YWQ3N2Q0MTE5NTM0ZjE0NzQ1NWFiMzA1 YzE2Mzc2NDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722668940%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EytPxMOeADV3i aHe7sFyeEWqrs7a0dbqL5zsoKtvg3g%3D&reserved=0
, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
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This conversation feels momentous. Thank you Sky for initiating and Amy for reminding that this is essentially public discourse. Can the members of this group, with all the expertise and comprehension of sociotechnical systems and the powers of narrative and discourse, engage a problem-solving conversation to generate a compelling case — and even perhaps a pathway — for governance and economy that does not depend upon war? I’m aware academics don’t tend to lead, although some intellectuals try (with some historical success). Mainly we explain. Could we explain how to mobilize coordinated direct action on an international scale to overwhelm the motives for violence with unbending insistence on peace? sincerely, steph On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 8:07 AM Cristiane Damasceno via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thanks for your message, Ayelet. Best, Cristiane
Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:15:57 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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?
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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.
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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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to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.npr.org_2023_12_14_1218643254_israel-2di/ s-2Dusing-2Dan-2Dai-2Dsystem-2Dto-2Dfind-2Dtargets-2Din-2Dgaza-2Dexper ts-2Dsay-2Dits-2Djust-2Dthe-2Dst%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0 g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhV eAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DVRBbgVDfEXmO5q6V-UiqsWPO8X6wl hVKPEefh7IsvvQ%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjN TY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjlkY2M6NTlkNzlmODQ1ZjE0ODY3OWY2YmQ3MDM0YmYzMDQ wOTQyMzE4MzhkMWJjMjJkMGUwNDY5ZWNjOWRiZTk4MTc2ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cay elet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2 e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722536635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZ sb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3 D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gfS4u4nkAB%2FJavMrLiiDCBjzWX1QPhY6QjDqhlJL4x8% 3D&reserved=0
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*Why **are we** silent?*
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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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__edition.cnn.com_2023_10_23_us_jewish-2Dpales tinian-2Dprotest-2Disrael-2Dgaza_index.html%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7d E8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9u JophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DgiDJckAd4bRXVtRcml e-ucsiGxjshWpQg9NX0w3Do1c%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OG Q5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjhjMmY6OGQ2ZGNhYWFjY2I4Zjk2ODk5Y2Yz ZjIwM2Q4NmFlYzU4MzdjMWIzNjg4Y2RmYzk5ZThhMDRmYzViNTlhNmMxNjpwOlQ&data=0 5%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7C f1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722612941%7CUnknow n%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kSieE1VZ0bhjwIDyjukCVZqMWsrD6chxykz XtFgX144%3D&reserved=0
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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I agree, Steph, that articulating avenues towards diplomacy and peace is what is needed - and what this group is eminently qualified for. There is such a complex history and too many wrongs on both sides to justify judgment against one side or the other. A peaceful and just way forward is what is truly needed. Sincerely, Elizabeth Cohen On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM Steph Kent via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
This conversation feels momentous. Thank you Sky for initiating and Amy for reminding that this is essentially public discourse.
Can the members of this group, with all the expertise and comprehension of sociotechnical systems and the powers of narrative and discourse, engage a problem-solving conversation to generate a compelling case — and even perhaps a pathway — for governance and economy that does not depend upon war?
I’m aware academics don’t tend to lead, although some intellectuals try (with some historical success). Mainly we explain.
Could we explain how to mobilize coordinated direct action on an international scale to overwhelm the motives for violence with unbending insistence on peace?
sincerely, steph
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 8:07 AM Cristiane Damasceno via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thanks for your message, Ayelet. Best, Cristiane
Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:15:57 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0
). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.oxfam.org_en_press-2dreleases_daily-2dde/ ath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2Dmajor-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dco nflict-2Doxfam%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DEs7P284K75TmQTGEDWDU-KYL-r_nZz66TYORiCEdSjY%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OmRlZDU6NTk0MjllYWNiN2VjODBhNzlkNjBmZmU3NTY5MTJkYzcxODQzYTkxMTFlM jQ1ODZjMTg4NzdlYzI3MzNiZjg5ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722468741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=jlFoDFRZtptQmLmkzwEPkGRoVepjm1Kda5veB%2BoLQGM%3D&reserved=0
, 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael-2Dkatz-2Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2D gaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas-2Dhostages%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Ds lrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngH qMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DS0mk_R5rD7PR dobIyqLg7MJ1ZGKaF0jnyh_fXIFEda0%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJm Mzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2Ojg5MTI6NDFmZTI2YmQ5NWE3NTVlYz c4NDQyMjEwMTEzOTllYjFkMDBmMjAwOTU5MWVlZTQyYmViMGZjYzRmMzdhYzkzMzpwOlQ& data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265 754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722474257%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JUqPI2fa2HGBZr42oZOAgnC9xcjoP OscIFg3bg79uKs%3D&reserved=0
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/ n_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen-2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk%26d %3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26 m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%2 6s%3DQS8GIDLClQoZy8ZJz43BrLi5mUMQHElFaVGogURYqL8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2h uaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjdlNjI6ODI3N GZjN2ZlZjRhNTljMWJiZjBmNGE0NmJhMjY5NTZhM2Q2MGE4OGU2ODZlMmM4OWI1ZWYzNWQ 4N2ZiYTRkYzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e6333 43f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384 15098722479601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i%2F2tPnSqUC %2BFV2xKpG%2FBm2j8wmPb9KjINf6wEj6Z43o%3D&reserved=0
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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2d/ destroys-2Dlast-2Duniversity-2Dgaza-2Dstrikes-2Dcontinue_%26d%3DDwIGaQ %26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5 p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D4hjp h_PE1F0hExMHy7YEL7DaV8Y-YSCvh4ZNcJxjqpE%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6 bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjY1NTY6MzljNjk1YWIwZT BjZTZiOTFhYWQ4ZWIxZDk2ZjM2YThlN2I3NWUxYjlmYzFiMTYyNWNhYjcyNmZmMjA1MDEx ZDpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a880 8dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987224 90863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJB TiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DZtAkQi9yDJe0zon4Umlp qZwUmwkedNyqhWtZwP1sSs%3D&reserved=0
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__wearenotnumbers.org_lament-2Dfor-2Dthe-2Duni versities_%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VTh FwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5 g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3D6Llq6af44spESU8trqbPNLIqtNLI_Gtwr4oCvQ6CYUY%26e%3D_ __.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo 2OjAyOWI6ZmRjNDI4YmYzZDU4NWIzNWY5MjAyMTA0MzAzNjQ4YzUwNDY3ZDFmNDE5YjBkZ TQxYmQxZTM3NTY4ODk1Zjk0YzpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il% 7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84% 7C1%7C0%7C638415098722496085%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwM DAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdat a=A%2FZiRJl8TAsqD3IJNcFLULZVQq2jtQw0hLAdGch1yNU%3D&reserved=0
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. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__protectingeducation.org_wp-2Dcontent_uploads _impact-5Fattackeducation-5Fpalestine-5F2022-5Fen.pdf%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c %3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O- sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DkfaD5kXU upXmxvmAXfZpJeBoMu8zWq4rVu-r7hq6WMo%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzpl MzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjRiMTY6MWQ3MTVlODUzZWM5OD EwOTU3NWYxZDAxNzdjYTE3ODRmMjdiYTQ5YTlhMzRhOWFlNTU4MjNkM2M2NDZlNjY4Njpw OlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1 b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872251998 8%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6 Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WgwuV5sNtLZq%2FHrUi7PuvlM G6FuEgEaPtogfl5EB9mI%3D&reserved=0 . Calls for protection < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.tandfonline.com_doi_full_10.1080_0305792/ 5.2021.1987192%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR 7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC -UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DN009Bbb3NRRmD-PBIuu3lT3zZ04RE5TS-CgsU8CniB0%26e %3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE 0Mjo2OjQ1NzI6MDI3MWFhMTQyZGIzNjVkYTc4ZGNlYTkxYzYxMGQ4ODYwMjJmMjg2YjliY jc2MDFiYzRkNmMwNzc3NDkxM2ZlYTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac .il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753 b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722526096%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C& sdata=EpXkC4xnn78EqWtLQDYlwL4yoQ5vGrTeWnAnL8KYpsQ%3D&reserved=0 have gone unheeded.
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, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.france24.com_en_live-2dnews_20240115-2di/ srael-2Ds-2Dwar-2Dresisters-2Drisk-2Djail-2Dtime%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3Dsl rrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHq MCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DZ1tjK1EM3Iu1B uPt7xCCkO1OdsCn0Dz-98xj7lGDML4%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmM zg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjZhNDM6ZDUzYzcyN2FjYzI3OThlZmR mMmE4OGY5NWFiY2ViMjc4NTRkZjI5Zjk0ZGIwZTQ3MWFkOWY4ZjU2MWE2ZTFjNTpwOlQ&d ata=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b2657 54%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722578642%7CU nknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1ha WwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GlSSmcONdhI9efLfSg8y8djdp29qal xtSOySRQjsSsw%3D&reserved=0 . 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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Association-5Fof-5FInt ernet-5FResearchers%26d%3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_q xx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf 6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DJK3xRfUH8400Z5hsCG9Q6mHPZcai0aBzCtw-0GBqt1 A%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOW YzNTE0Mjo2OmRlZGI6YWM3NmFjNjdmYzkwNzFmYzM0ZjdmMGY5ODM3YTYwZWMwYjAzMzky MTY3YTk1MWViN2UzMzRjMjEyYWMwNGZlYTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40techni on.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855 f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C638415098722584169%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoi MC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7 C%7C&sdata=OKJ1qm0n48T3gdzGk20I2SkLAPj7PjJ2BwwJe6CSv2M%3D&reserved=0
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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Anti-2DBDS-5Flaws%26d% 3DDwIGaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m %3DnITU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26 s%3DPVrapE2SwjUZBz9rzqbJ745Q-1G8l_LBz1mClfellw8%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2hu aW9uOmM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjIxYjg6N2U5Nz U3MGM1YmQ3YzUwM2Y2NDI0NjM5ZDJjZGJkYTdiMTczODdjMGY5ODBmMzJjMWU3YzMzOWIy YjRlNDExMjpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e63334 3f73a8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841 5098722659630%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pNBSByoGGeyy7 %2Fsx7kv3g5KHUrdA6uxUAxFkES4LdO8%3D&reserved=0
. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aoir.org_aoir2023_aoir2023cfp_%26d%3DDwIGaQ% 26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnITU5p 9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3Dph7FX 9EnLluLing-Wj6GEgdiog4l_hPH-xof4dqwj0M%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6b zplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjJmYTU6MmMxNDhiNTEwNmZ jMzBkMjY3MzNkZjI0MGU5OGY2NjVjZTE0Mzk2ZWFiMzBmYmNiYzI4NWYzOGRlOWRlZTJjN zpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a8808 dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C63841509872267 5107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBT iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E4vvlLA8H05elYmEkPLkJR 9VXkzDPAMac%2FdRAH1kgB4%3D&reserved=0 ) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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It's such a dicey argument, I wouldn't want to be for or against any of the adversaries, but to address these conflicts, we must put ourselves in the shoes of the other. It's a common belief that people are indoctrinated to have a life goal of killing as many Jews as possible, Israel has also learnt to defend itself in any manner without minding who's ox is gored. Until the ideology in Gaza and Middle East changes, don't expect Israel to change tactics. Whatever statement that should be put out should reflect getting the parties back to the negotiating table, for that to happen, all Israeli hostages in Gaza must be released, so that Israel can then be pressured to end the current hostilities. We must endeavor to speak all the versions of the truth in this conflict, the truth in Gaza should not negate the truth in Israel. Ndinojuo, Ben-Collins Emeka BA, MA, PhD Faculty of Humanities Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Port Harcourt. Nigeria. Researchgate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ben_Collins_Ndinojuo Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AobhKnYAAAAJ&hl=en Academia Link - https://uniport-ng.academia.edu/ChukwuemekaCollins On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 7:48 PM D. Elizabeth Cohen via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I agree, Steph, that articulating avenues towards diplomacy and peace is what is needed - and what this group is eminently qualified for. There is such a complex history and too many wrongs on both sides to justify judgment against one side or the other.
A peaceful and just way forward is what is truly needed.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Cohen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM Steph Kent via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
This conversation feels momentous. Thank you Sky for initiating and Amy for reminding that this is essentially public discourse.
Can the members of this group, with all the expertise and comprehension of sociotechnical systems and the powers of narrative and discourse, engage a problem-solving conversation to generate a compelling case — and even perhaps a pathway — for governance and economy that does not depend upon war?
I’m aware academics don’t tend to lead, although some intellectuals try (with some historical success). Mainly we explain.
Could we explain how to mobilize coordinated direct action on an international scale to overwhelm the motives for violence with unbending insistence on peace?
sincerely, steph
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 8:07 AM Cristiane Damasceno via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thanks for your message, Ayelet. Best, Cristiane
Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:15:57 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having
Thanks so much for this Sky.
Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context.
Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance.
Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities.
Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward.
Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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). 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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.oxfam.org_en_press-2dreleases_daily-2dde/
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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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/
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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.theguardian.com_australia-2dnews_2024_ja/
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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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“is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.thenational.scot_news_24059315.israel-2d/
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by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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have been killed, injured, and displaced < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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. Calls for protection < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.tandfonline.com_doi_full_10.1080_0305792/
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have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.amnesty.org_en_latest_news_2023_05_israe/
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to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.npr.org_2023_12_14_1218643254_israel-2di/
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. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.aljazeera.com_news_2023_10_27_israel-2di/
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, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.npr.org_2024_01_19_1225651180_israel-2dt/
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the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.washingtonpost.com_world_2023_11_12_isra/
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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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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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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. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__ http://www.wrmea.org_2008-2ddecember_israel-2dand-2/
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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com %2
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Hello all: I want to add my voice to those supporting AOIR making a statement on the war. Sky, thank you for starting the conversation. It’s particularly important that AOIR, as an organization, speak up because the reality is that individual scholars rightly fear for their livelihoods for broaching any political criticism of Israel, including of the unconscionable (and, I would argue, self-destructive) way it has chosen to conduct itself in this war; i.e., by committing acts that sure look like genocide. It should not be controversial, or take excessive bravery, for anyone to condemn the excessive use of force in war, not matter how grievous the attack, or the historical complexity at play, or which country is committing the atrocities. (You also don’t need a PhD in War Crimes to speak out against atrocities.) War crimes and genocide are illegal and immoral in all circumstances. *Nothing* excuses them, no matter who commits them, for whatever reason. Yet in Canada, as elsewhere, scholars, students and workers have been censured, blacklisted and fired for expressing support for Palestinians and for criticizing Israel’s prosecution of the war. Attempts to define antisemitism to include political critiques of Israel have been weaponized so as to silence these critiques. In such a climate of chilled academic speech, it is incumbent on organizations like AOIR, and on tenured academics, to create the space for others to express themselves, including in support of basic and universal human rights. (For those interested, I’ve written about this weaponized antisemitism in the Canadian context: https://cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2024/01/academic-freedom-weaponized-antisemiti.... For those looking for further information on the debate over definitions of antisemitism in the university context, I highly recommend this 2021 report from the University of Toronto Antisemitism Working Group: https://people.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Report-of-the-Antisemi....) As for the content of the statement and any calls to action, I think Sky has some good suggestions. I, for one, have no problem with a statement that follows Amnesty International’s lead in condemning the inhumane violence from Hamas *and* Israel, e.g., https://takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/137971/petition/1, while focusing on Israel’s ongoing disproportionate actions. Since we’re an academic organization, I think particular focus should be placed (as others have also noted) on the killing of Palestinian professors, the destruction of Gaza’s university system, and the unprecedented number of killings of journalists covering the conflict. Regards, Blayne Haggart Dr. Blayne Haggart Associate Professor On sabbatical, July 2023-June 2024 Department of Political Science Brock University St. Catharines, ON Canada New book: The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (with Natasha Tusikov). Rowman and Littlefield. Open Access: https://blaynehaggart.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/haggart-tusikov-the-new-kn... Also out: Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State? Edited by Blayne Haggart, Natasha Tusikov and Jan Aart Scholte Buy it here: https://www.routledge.com/Power-and-Authority-in-Internet-Governance-Return-... On Jan 22, 2024, at 10:29 AM, D. Elizabeth Cohen via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: I agree, Steph, that articulating avenues towards diplomacy and peace is what is needed - and what this group is eminently qualified for. There is such a complex history and too many wrongs on both sides to justify judgment against one side or the other. A peaceful and just way forward is what is truly needed. Sincerely, Elizabeth Cohen On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM Steph Kent via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: This conversation feels momentous. Thank you Sky for initiating and Amy for reminding that this is essentially public discourse. Can the members of this group, with all the expertise and comprehension of sociotechnical systems and the powers of narrative and discourse, engage a problem-solving conversation to generate a compelling case — and even perhaps a pathway — for governance and economy that does not depend upon war? I’m aware academics don’t tend to lead, although some intellectuals try (with some historical success). Mainly we explain. Could we explain how to mobilize coordinated direct action on an international scale to overwhelm the motives for violence with unbending insistence on peace? sincerely, steph On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 8:07 AM Cristiane Damasceno via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Thanks for your message, Ayelet. Best, Cristiane Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ayelet Baram-Tsabari via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 5:15:57 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Dear Air-Ls, As you, I am worried about the loss of life in Gaza, but I cannot but wonder about the omission of the trigger for the war: In the wake of Saturday, October 7th, Israel was attacked by about 5000 Hamas terrorists, who systematically slaughtered and burned alive family after family in villages near the Gaza border, rapped women before killing them in the music festival in Re’im, and sadistically tortured kids in front of their parents. One of those murdered was Yasmin Zohar, a M.Sc. student of a friend of mine. Yasmin, her two daughters, her husband, and her father were all brutally slaughtered in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Saturday morning. Only her son Ariel, almost 13, survived. He moved to live with his uncles in the city of Rishon LeZion – where I grew up. So many Harry Potters were created that day. This is a complex situation with a long history. At the moment, Israel is responding to an immediate unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians by Hamas, who publicly promised to do that again. Looking at the affiliations of those responding in the list, I can safely say that your countries would have – and in fact have already done so in the past – reacted similarly to such attacks. Like you, I also follow with horror what happens in Gaza. But sometimes, it seems to me, that I care more about the hungry and futureless kids in Gaza, than the Western Pro-Palestinians protesters who, in fact, work hard to allow the continuation of Hamas control there. As I see it, this is practically like supporting the Taliban's control over Afghanistan instead of supporting Afghanis who try to get rid of the Taliban. Best Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Alia ElKattan via Air-L Sent: Monday, 22 January 2024 10:39 To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Thanks so much for this Sky. Especially as every university in Gaza had been partially or fully destroyed, hundreds of professors and academics have been killed, and academic institutions outside Gaza have engaged in targeting and suppression of pro-Palestine speech, I am fully supportive of an academic boycott and a clear stance of public solidarity and action. Also interested in any research efforts to better understand internet research in the Palestinian context. Given the online and livestreamed nature of this genocide where we've seen people telling us the horrific atrocities committed against them in real time on all our internet platforms, often followed by news of their murder, it is imperative for an association of internet researchers to take a stance. Not to mention the nature of online suppression, disinformation, doxxing, and harassment that has been at the center of a campaign to justify and even celebrate the murder of over 30,000 people and the forced starvation and displacement of millions amidst an intentional destruction of lifesaving healthcare and telecommunication (including internet) facilities. Thank you for initiating this, and please count me in for any efforts moving forward. Best, Alia ElKattan NYU Politics PhD student On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, 10:33 pm Sky Croeser via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: 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://prot/ ect.checkpoint.com%2Fv2%2F___https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2 Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__bdsmovement.net_academic-2Dboycott%26d%3DDwI GaQ%26c%3DslrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ%26r%3D_qxx8hR7VThFwWvNFxP6nQ%26m%3DnI TU5p9O-sngHqMCv9uJophceBAbhVeAPnRtuMSSssf6GRmC-UG5g8B7aYj9pqtG%26s%3DV WYyUrwvfdi6Dj-iZznUqpiO-w2cSjpoU1kPDpJN4BM%26e%3D___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uO mM6bzplMzJmMzg5OGQ5YjM3MDNjNTY5N2EwOTRjOWYzNTE0Mjo2OjgzOTg6YjViN2NhMDV kNjdjMDU1Yzc4ZDg3MDYwYjkwNjk3ZmViNGRhMWE4YmUwMDg4MTI2Yzk0MWQ3MjlkODJhM TliZTpwOlQ&data=05%7C02%7Cayelet%40technion.ac.il%7C0b68e34e633343f73a 8808dc1b265754%7Cf1502c4cee2e411c9715c855f6753b84%7C1%7C0%7C6384150987 22457179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UG4qjjAuwDr%2BU3Qu sL9gx89MOeI5sSmug5DtQEXbd4E%3D&reserved=0 ). 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? 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. 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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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 < https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail < https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish < https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people < https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high < https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost < https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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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://www.anthroboycott.org/ 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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Let’s be clear: You are endorsing academic boycotts of your colleagues on this list, in this association, reading right now, in many cases those that built it and nurtured it; Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever their denomination, because they are Israeli or work at Israeli institutions. There is no courage in singling out your colleagues for where they are from or who they are. On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM Aparajita Bhandari via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://www.anthroboycott.org/ 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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition < https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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The Anthropology boycott listed focuses on institutions, not individuals. However, it seems you have a strong concern about collective punishment. Even where some academic institutions and academics clearly endorse and support the actions of the Israeli government, they should not be subject to having access to fewer academic opportunities. Given your concerns about punishing academics for where they live and work, can we take this as an endorsement of some statement in solidarity with students and academics who have had their universities bombed, and who have been killed, injured, and displaced simply because they live (or lived) in Gaza? On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 6:38 am, Vanessa Siebler via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Let’s be clear: You are endorsing academic boycotts of your colleagues on this list, in this association, reading right now, in many cases those that built it and nurtured it; Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever their denomination, because they are Israeli or work at Israeli institutions.
There is no courage in singling out your colleagues for where they are from or who they are.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM Aparajita Bhandari via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://www.anthroboycott.org/ 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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott ). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition < https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Will a solidarity statement such as this also acknowledge Sapir College, the largest public college in Israel located a few kilometers from Gaza? The college lost seven academic and administrative staff members, along with two students who were brutally murdered on October 7th. Thousands of its students and staff members lost family members and friends or were forcibly displaced from their homes. This occurred while they were confined to shelters, amidst a backdrop where *thousands* of Palestinian terrorists – as well as Gazan civilians who miraculously managed to escape from what is derogatorily termed "concentration camps," as mentioned disrespectfully in another message, with a complete lack of regard for true Holocaust survivors – engaged in barbaric acts of arson, looting, sexual assault, and brutal massacres within their own families. Does the same solidarity extend to them, or is it reserved only for citizens of a regime, who have had countless opportunities to improve the conditions of the population that elected them, but instead chose to launch vicious and sadistic attacks that the human mind finds difficult to comprehend? בתאריך יום ג׳, 23 בינו׳ 2024 ב-9:17 מאת Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org>:
The Anthropology boycott listed focuses on institutions, not individuals.
However, it seems you have a strong concern about collective punishment. Even where some academic institutions and academics clearly endorse and support the actions of the Israeli government, they should not be subject to having access to fewer academic opportunities.
Given your concerns about punishing academics for where they live and work, can we take this as an endorsement of some statement in solidarity with students and academics who have had their universities bombed, and who have been killed, injured, and displaced simply because they live (or lived) in Gaza?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 6:38 am, Vanessa Siebler via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Let’s be clear: You are endorsing academic boycotts of your colleagues on this list, in this association, reading right now, in many cases those that built it and nurtured it; Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever their denomination, because they are Israeli or work at Israeli institutions.
There is no courage in singling out your colleagues for where they are from or who they are.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM Aparajita Bhandari via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://www.anthroboycott.org/ 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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott ). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection < https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers
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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition < https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left
to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Colleagues, Once again, I call for a discursive cease fire. Nobody is going to convince anybody of anything on this thread. Nobody is going to agree on a consensus policy on this thread. Everybody is going to fall prey to anger and resentment on this thread. As AoIR President Nik John pointed out in his email, our community can’t withstand this level of divisiveness for long, and it’s too precious to all of us to sacrifice it on the garbage fire of geopolitics. There is a lot that we can do, individually and collectively, to resist the global authoritarian turn and to play a role in preventing genocide and other atrocities. But this ain’t it. So please, stop replying to this thread before we reach the point of no return as a community. With love and admiration for you all, Aram On Jan 23, 2024, at 3:09 AM, הילה לוינשטיין-ברקאי via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: External Email: Use caution with links and attachments. Will a solidarity statement such as this also acknowledge Sapir College, the largest public college in Israel located a few kilometers from Gaza? The college lost seven academic and administrative staff members, along with two students who were brutally murdered on October 7th. Thousands of its students and staff members lost family members and friends or were forcibly displaced from their homes. This occurred while they were confined to shelters, amidst a backdrop where *thousands* of Palestinian terrorists – as well as Gazan civilians who miraculously managed to escape from what is derogatorily termed "concentration camps," as mentioned disrespectfully in another message, with a complete lack of regard for true Holocaust survivors – engaged in barbaric acts of arson, looting, sexual assault, and brutal massacres within their own families. Does the same solidarity extend to them, or is it reserved only for citizens of a regime, who have had countless opportunities to improve the conditions of the population that elected them, but instead chose to launch vicious and sadistic attacks that the human mind finds difficult to comprehend? בתאריך יום ג׳, 23 בינו׳ 2024 ב-9:17 מאת Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>>: The Anthropology boycott listed focuses on institutions, not individuals. However, it seems you have a strong concern about collective punishment. Even where some academic institutions and academics clearly endorse and support the actions of the Israeli government, they should not be subject to having access to fewer academic opportunities. Given your concerns about punishing academics for where they live and work, can we take this as an endorsement of some statement in solidarity with students and academics who have had their universities bombed, and who have been killed, injured, and displaced simply because they live (or lived) in Gaza? On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 6:38 am, Vanessa Siebler via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Let’s be clear: You are endorsing academic boycotts of your colleagues on this list, in this association, reading right now, in many cases those that built it and nurtured it; Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever their denomination, because they are Israeli or work at Israeli institutions. There is no courage in singling out your colleagues for where they are from or who they are. On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM Aparajita Bhandari via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: 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.com/v3/__https://www.anthroboycott.org/__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIf... 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<mailto: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<mailto: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.com/v3/__https://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott__;!!IaT... ). 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 < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-de... , 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 < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/... “has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/... 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. Because AoIR is <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/__;!!... > “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israe... by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-unive... >, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-a... and students < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed... have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQrfz8p5w$>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploa... . Calls for protection < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/030... > have gone unheeded. Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/i... to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel... . Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://notechforapartheid.com/__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysI... >. Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel... the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/... jail < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel... and threats of violence <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-... >, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-i... . 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.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Int... 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. Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/a... . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-j... opposition < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-ant... to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism. 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 < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-pal... Jewish < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group... people < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/je... . We should not allow them to claim that they do. We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-pales... a high < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/dox... cost < https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-... on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws__;!!... >. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position. But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/__;!!... >, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/__;!!IaT_g... >) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope. 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I second what Aram has said here. Andrew Herman, Ph. D (he/his/him) Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University DJ Ouroboros, "Low End Theory" radio show Andrew Herman's Shows | Mixcloud<https://www.mixcloud.com/andrew-herman3/> WZBC 90.3 FM Newton/Boston MA USA Low End Theory with DJ Ouroboros on WZBC 90.3 FM Newton (spinitron.com)<https://spinitron.com/WZBC/show/204144/Low-End-Theory> I acknowledge that I am on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishnaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Wilfrid Laurier University is located on the Haldimand tract, which was promised to the Six Nations. http://www.lspirg.org/knowtheland/. ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Aram Sinnreich via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 2:50 PM To: הילה לוינשטיין-ברקאי <hilalow@gmail.com> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL *] Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Colleagues, Once again, I call for a discursive cease fire. Nobody is going to convince anybody of anything on this thread. Nobody is going to agree on a consensus policy on this thread. Everybody is going to fall prey to anger and resentment on this thread. As AoIR President Nik John pointed out in his email, our community can’t withstand this level of divisiveness for long, and it’s too precious to all of us to sacrifice it on the garbage fire of geopolitics. There is a lot that we can do, individually and collectively, to resist the global authoritarian turn and to play a role in preventing genocide and other atrocities. But this ain’t it. So please, stop replying to this thread before we reach the point of no return as a community. With love and admiration for you all, Aram On Jan 23, 2024, at 3:09 AM, הילה לוינשטיין-ברקאי via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: External Email: Use caution with links and attachments. Will a solidarity statement such as this also acknowledge Sapir College, the largest public college in Israel located a few kilometers from Gaza? The college lost seven academic and administrative staff members, along with two students who were brutally murdered on October 7th. Thousands of its students and staff members lost family members and friends or were forcibly displaced from their homes. This occurred while they were confined to shelters, amidst a backdrop where *thousands* of Palestinian terrorists – as well as Gazan civilians who miraculously managed to escape from what is derogatorily termed "concentration camps," as mentioned disrespectfully in another message, with a complete lack of regard for true Holocaust survivors – engaged in barbaric acts of arson, looting, sexual assault, and brutal massacres within their own families. Does the same solidarity extend to them, or is it reserved only for citizens of a regime, who have had countless opportunities to improve the conditions of the population that elected them, but instead chose to launch vicious and sadistic attacks that the human mind finds difficult to comprehend? בתאריך יום ג׳, 23 בינו׳ 2024 ב-9:17 מאת Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>>: The Anthropology boycott listed focuses on institutions, not individuals. However, it seems you have a strong concern about collective punishment. Even where some academic institutions and academics clearly endorse and support the actions of the Israeli government, they should not be subject to having access to fewer academic opportunities. Given your concerns about punishing academics for where they live and work, can we take this as an endorsement of some statement in solidarity with students and academics who have had their universities bombed, and who have been killed, injured, and displaced simply because they live (or lived) in Gaza? On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 6:38 am, Vanessa Siebler via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Let’s be clear: You are endorsing academic boycotts of your colleagues on this list, in this association, reading right now, in many cases those that built it and nurtured it; Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever their denomination, because they are Israeli or work at Israeli institutions. There is no courage in singling out your colleagues for where they are from or who they are. On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM Aparajita Bhandari via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: 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://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.anthroboycott.org%2F__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuARGHi9z_g%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976378824%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dxijFGxDEBYa4Qe08fvVrz4xMesiZ4j5FFbd1snV2lU%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.anthroboycott.org/__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuARGHi9z_g$> 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<mailto: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<mailto: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://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense... ). 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 < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfam.org%2Fen%2Fpress-releases%2Fdaily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuATa8k-p0w%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976393366%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VSviKexs5eSEht%2B%2BtXAWOCv6F95q7ObPdqkIwCdgeJc%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuATa8k-p0w$> , exceeding that of any recent armed conflict. There is no end in sight, and the deliberate restriction of food, water, and medicine means that people within Gaza face starvation and disease as well as bombing and other forms of direct violence. Because many of us are based in countries which are prepared to condemn other atrocities, but are unwilling to issue more than lukewarm statements about the Israeli state’s violence against Palestinians. For example, Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Faustralia-news%2F2024%2Fjan%2F17%2Fpenny-wong-meets-israel-katz-isaac-herzog-israel-gaza-palestine-war-meets-hamas-hostages__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuATdNRWy-Q%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976398703%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HCqGxOZtdezQQkO7Pp%2BkQvgwmdqFWKxlQyVgFTS5%2B5o%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-israel-katz-isaac-herzog-israel-gaza-palestine-war-meets-hamas-hostages__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuATdNRWy-Q$> “has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Faustralia-news%2F2024%2Fjan%2F12%2Faustralia-military-support-yemen-airstrikes-us-uk__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuARNWuJtiA%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976404001%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ObH918VyQLd1xkLsz6XQTuFdhBwROpIydnWMRVFWVrw%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-support-yemen-airstrikes-us-uk__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuARNWuJtiA$> in retailation for their disruption of shipping routes to Israel. Where our own governments will not speak up for human rights, we have an obligation to raise our voices. Because AoIR is <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense... > “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-gaza-strikes-continue%2F__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuASRL1VBuA%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976414605%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=U2stZraWQNfzUFEcNP%2BWUu0cqDhEWLEHkaiGbf9jH5Y%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-gaza-strikes-continue/__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuASRL1VBuA$> by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense... >, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Ftributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023%2F__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQsgjDWWQ%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976425307%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GsK8PRBUboqBMsLeH7rdrPhVaAy80o%2BKs0ENGNWik8U%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQsgjDWWQ$> and students < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Ftributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-2023%2F__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuATRGLI8Sg%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976430898%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=blbrgSKA8uJhAzmS0v30aMdUIbQXVblWpW7btTrIfkU%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-2023/__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuATRGLI8Sg$> have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Fi-have-left-all-my-books-behind%2F__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQrfz8p5w%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976436456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JOvyTHK6LZneXcRPowru0STAMdVGCbzFl4g2dMMQOc8%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQrfz8p5w$>>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fprotectingeducation.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fimpact_attackeducation_palestine_2022_en.pdf__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuATGI1SgJA%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976442107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uGjugIe1LQ2uekbuiDYI%2FNeOdzwRWvcUDJwCA2qDx0I%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_palestine_2022_en.pdf__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuATGI1SgJA$> . Calls for protection < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F03057925.2021.1987192__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuATChF_Lxg%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976449111%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=F1oDRx98r0B5oW2mVNRtIiWvPkLizIdlSIZbnjwfPjA%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuATChF_Lxg$> > have gone unheeded. Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amnesty.org%2Fen%2Flatest%2Fnews%2F2023%2F05%2Fisrael-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid%2F__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuASgpY9tUg%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976454091%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jt5kosg%2Bqw5gOQkoj5sOJ2IyT2J8CAT%2B2T67uFldNSY%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid/__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuASgpY9tUg$> to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2023%2F12%2F14%2F1218643254%2Fisrael-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQQHZIXdw%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976459568%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7vTO3vrVyCXpI%2B0M8BEC%2FdTPPjQsB7O07uGROAYwr2E%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQQHZIXdw$> . Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2023%2F10%2F27%2Fisrael-intensifies-gaza-bombardment-as-internet-and-phone-services-go-down__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQOYcvnXQ%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976465346%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BnsbJy0Rt%2BZzYCzI6UH%2Fgtn%2BP0gAoEN7Z98FfG7kup4%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardment-as-internet-and-phone-services-go-down__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQOYcvnXQ$> , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense... >. 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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://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense... 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. Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishvoiceforpeace.org%2F2023%2F11%2F09%2Fantisemitism-dangerous%2F__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuASTlWjkfg%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976509274%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XsPRkw7y4yRxpBwM7iI71EEoCKkgtkggnjxlSr2fhJk%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuASTlWjkfg$> . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wrmea.org%2F2008-december%2Fisrael-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-untold-history-of-jewish-opposition-to-zionism.html__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQp-EkPfQ%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976514404%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dsxy4%2Fkejd3ab1iA%2FSH0T4lUYYX0MKAKu3LBBp%2FKWcw%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-untold-history-of-jewish-opposition-to-zionism.html__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQp-EkPfQ$> opposition < https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fjacobin.com%2F2020%2F07%2Fisrael-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left__%3B!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQFZfjMig%24&data=05%7C02%7Caherman%40wlu.ca%7Ca67f9aaeb12e4d70732b08dc1cf88872%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638417100976519559%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C62000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sy%2B265bXuhn0YeAoPCy8hAIcdSVi60T7sowUM5QiQCI%3D&reserved=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left__;!!IaT_gp1N!ysIfXBa2O5sC3UeirYKP0fLFZcYgva4CI3L0cDLJdDnv0Q84_9LKjDgUozzh9seKFGZ9vzFJuAQFZfjMig$> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism. 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. 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We should not allow them to claim that they do. 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Better coordination with the BDS movement is justified. ________________________________ De : Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> de la part de הילה לוינשטיין-ברקאי via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Envoyé : mercredi, janvier 24, 2024 1:17:13 AM À : Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc : Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Objet : Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Will a solidarity statement such as this also acknowledge Sapir College, the largest public college in Israel located a few kilometers from Gaza? The college lost seven academic and administrative staff members, along with two students who were brutally murdered on October 7th. Thousands of its students and staff members lost family members and friends or were forcibly displaced from their homes. This occurred while they were confined to shelters, amidst a backdrop where *thousands* of Palestinian terrorists – as well as Gazan civilians who miraculously managed to escape from what is derogatorily termed "concentration camps," as mentioned disrespectfully in another message, with a complete lack of regard for true Holocaust survivors – engaged in barbaric acts of arson, looting, sexual assault, and brutal massacres within their own families. Does the same solidarity extend to them, or is it reserved only for citizens of a regime, who have had countless opportunities to improve the conditions of the population that elected them, but instead chose to launch vicious and sadistic attacks that the human mind finds difficult to comprehend? בתאריך יום ג׳, 23 בינו׳ 2024 ב-9:17 מאת Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org>:
The Anthropology boycott listed focuses on institutions, not individuals.
However, it seems you have a strong concern about collective punishment. Even where some academic institutions and academics clearly endorse and support the actions of the Israeli government, they should not be subject to having access to fewer academic opportunities.
Given your concerns about punishing academics for where they live and work, can we take this as an endorsement of some statement in solidarity with students and academics who have had their universities bombed, and who have been killed, injured, and displaced simply because they live (or lived) in Gaza?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 6:38 am, Vanessa Siebler via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Let’s be clear: You are endorsing academic boycotts of your colleagues on this list, in this association, reading right now, in many cases those that built it and nurtured it; Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever their denomination, because they are Israeli or work at Israeli institutions.
There is no courage in singling out your colleagues for where they are from or who they are.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM Aparajita Bhandari via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.anthroboycott.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C898aea55a01b4aa72e9708dc1c4c1668%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638416360329070946%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zHThmc8DfG45o4AOyDz%2BrzmULRs4lmlszRE9FfULY7w%3D&reserved=0<https://www.anthroboycott.org/> 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://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbdsmovement... ). 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 <
, 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 <
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
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.
Because AoIR is <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C898aea55a01b4aa72e9708dc1c4c1668%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638416360329092499%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZE3ii1GoDC1QWsufhanUZ82Ej5ppj3p7V8C1ok0QpK8%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
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and students <
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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 <
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnotechforapartheid.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C898aea55a01b4aa72e9708dc1c4c1668%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638416360329125953%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=g0Y%2BYDKLlZr1bRw%2FsGRyWVM3QYkVjdFFTkLmxXTQFa8%3D&reserved=0<https://notechforapartheid.com/>>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
jail <
and threats of violence <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.972mag.com%2Fisraeli-protest-gaza-war-repression%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C898aea55a01b4aa72e9708dc1c4c1668%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638416360329137502%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HqPnve2P64jFSlJCRPXfNuRIvHGcqWadoTSNWvR8Gv0%3D&reserved=0<https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
. 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://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedi...
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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to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
Jewish <
people <
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
a high <
cost <
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Thanks for your email, Noam. I have also been mostly a silent observer in this group. Among the many conflicting perspectives presented in this email thread, I think we all might agree on two points: * The atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct 7th cannot be justified, and Israel has a duty to defend its citizens (~ 2 million Arabs included). * Many innocent Palestinians are, in fact, dying because of the actions of both Hamas and the Israeli army. Apart from these two points, there’s not much more that we know about this current conflict with certainty. For instance: * How much are Hamas tactics also contributing to the loss of innocent lives and the proportionality calculus in this war? * If Israel ceases fire right now, will Hamas cease fire as well? * At this point, are there other alternatives for Israel to protect its citizens other than an armed conflict? I don’t think anyone in this group has answers to these pertinent questions. Thus, it might be best to recognize the extent of our collective ignorance and not put out a statement that as an association about the conflict at this moment. Short self-disclosure: I’m originally from Brazil, but currently live in the United States. The NOVA festival was co-organized by Brazilians and Israelis, so people from my country also died on October 7th. I’m very sorry for the loss of all lives in this conflict (Palestinians, Israelis, etc.). It’s all very sad. Respectfully, Cristiane ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of הילה לוינשטיין-ברקאי via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 3:09 AM To: Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Will a solidarity statement such as this also acknowledge Sapir College, the largest public college in Israel located a few kilometers from Gaza? The college lost seven academic and administrative staff members, along with two students who were brutally murdered on October 7th. Thousands of its students and staff members lost family members and friends or were forcibly displaced from their homes. This occurred while they were confined to shelters, amidst a backdrop where *thousands* of Palestinian terrorists – as well as Gazan civilians who miraculously managed to escape from what is derogatorily termed "concentration camps," as mentioned disrespectfully in another message, with a complete lack of regard for true Holocaust survivors – engaged in barbaric acts of arson, looting, sexual assault, and brutal massacres within their own families. Does the same solidarity extend to them, or is it reserved only for citizens of a regime, who have had countless opportunities to improve the conditions of the population that elected them, but instead chose to launch vicious and sadistic attacks that the human mind finds difficult to comprehend? בתאריך יום ג׳, 23 בינו׳ 2024 ב-9:17 מאת Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org>:
The Anthropology boycott listed focuses on institutions, not individuals.
However, it seems you have a strong concern about collective punishment. Even where some academic institutions and academics clearly endorse and support the actions of the Israeli government, they should not be subject to having access to fewer academic opportunities.
Given your concerns about punishing academics for where they live and work, can we take this as an endorsement of some statement in solidarity with students and academics who have had their universities bombed, and who have been killed, injured, and displaced simply because they live (or lived) in Gaza?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 6:38 am, Vanessa Siebler via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Let’s be clear: You are endorsing academic boycotts of your colleagues on this list, in this association, reading right now, in many cases those that built it and nurtured it; Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever their denomination, because they are Israeli or work at Israeli institutions.
There is no courage in singling out your colleagues for where they are from or who they are.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM Aparajita Bhandari via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://www.anthroboycott.org/ 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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott ). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection < https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers
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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition < https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left
to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Hello list members, I am Noam Tirosh, Chair of the Communication Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Though I have been mostly a silent observer in this group and have not attended AOIR conferences, the recent events compelled me to break my silence. As our community was deeply affected by the tragic events of October 7th and the subsequent conflict (more than 100 people in the university community died during the massacre of October 7th and the following war that ensued), I feel it is my responsibility to share our experiences with you, especially considering the active participation of many of my colleagues in the AOIR community. First, we opened our academic year two months later than expected due to the war and the fact that the university is located in Beer-Sheva in Southern Israel, only 40 kilometers away from Gaza, thus heavily bombarded by Hamas missiles. In addition, almost 30% of our student population was immediately recruited to the Army Reserve. It is important to note here that the situation at Sapir Community College, an academic institution located near the Gaza border, is even graver. They have had to shift entirely to remote learning following an evacuation, not to mention the tragic loss of faculty members and the displacement of many. This postponement of the academic year causes academic chaos for us that we are still trying to mitigate. Only now are we realizing what happened to many of our students on October 7th, especially while celebrating the giant NOVA peace festival that took place that day in the area. One of our students spent the night camping with her friends at ZIKIM beach. At 6:30 am, when they woke up to the sound of a missile alarm, they went out of their tents only to realize that a Hamas naval commando was attacking them. They escaped to a nearby military base and hid inside a missile shelter. Eventually, Hamas forces invaded the army base. My student and a few of her friends are the only survivors among those hiding in the base's shelters. Others were murdered (some were probably raped before being murdered) or kidnaped to Gaza. Another student of mine lost her boyfriend a few days after October 7th. He was recruited, and a few days later, he died while fighting. They had been together for more than seven years. While not married, she considers herself a bereaved wife. These are only two examples that I know firsthand. Many other students lost family members and friends and are now either fighting in Gaza or terrified for the fate of their friends in the front. Our department is doing everything possible to support our students, prioritizing their needs to ensure they can complete the academic year under these extraordinary circumstances. I genuinely feel sorry for those in Gaza currently suffering and the loss of innocent lives there. I don't feel less like a local patriot while acknowledging this. However, I do expect people in this organization to be fair enough also to recognize their Israeli peers' distress while writing whatever letter they wish to write. Otherwise, it is not a letter of solidarity with those currently in pain but a one-sided political spectacle issued to harness the academic reputation of an organization such as AOIR to some of the organization members' current political causes. All the best, Noam -- Noam Tirosh, Ph.D. Communication Studies Ben - Gurion University of the Negev On Jan 23, 2024 at 09:24 +0200, Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com>, wrote:
can we take this as an endorsement of some statement in solidarity with
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 <
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.oxfam.org_en_ press-2Dreleases_daily-2Ddeath-2Drate-2Dgaza-2Dhigher-2Dany-2Dother-2D major-2D21st-2Dcentury-2Dconflict- 2Doxfam&d=DwIGaQ&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1 JF7vEiFxvFRfQtp-j14fFwh71U&r=GkVr_WnzKhJSEnJfRRWR3pxvkEQQVBgue- uUa05rc
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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 <
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.c om_australia-2Dnews_2024_jan_17_penny-2Dwong-2Dmeets-2Disrael- 2Dkatz-2 Disaac-2Dherzog-2Disrael-2Dgaza-2Dpalestine-2Dwar-2Dmeets-2Dhamas- 2Dho stages&d=DwIGaQ&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRfQtp- j14fFwh71U&r=GkVr_W nzKhJSEnJfRRWR3pxvkEQQVBgue- uUa05rcls&m=QzItrbI0UYPPQirKRN144vbcMNcwcd uOojQND2xqf7bgEBeyuRi4lsQRd3LwyMRr&s=sX-D5Y2--wugkfF7- iOPOVZTdAlB30III t5Q7m8T-P0&e=
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.c om_australia-2Dnews_2024_jan_12_australia-2Dmilitary-2Dsupport-2Dyemen -2Dairstrikes-2Dus-2Duk&d=DwIGaQ&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRfQtp- j1 4fFwh71U&r=GkVr_WnzKhJSEnJfRRWR3pxvkEQQVBgue- uUa05rcls&m=QzItrbI0UYPPQ
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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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. 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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. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.o rg_wiki_Anti-2DBDS- 5Flaws&d=DwIGaQ&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRfQt p-j14fFwh71U&r=GkVr_WnzKhJSEnJfRRWR3pxvkEQQVBgue- uUa05rcls&m=QzItrbI0UYPPQirKRN144vbcMNcwcduOojQND2xqf7bgEBeyuRi4ls QRd3LwyMRr&s=tbEZt1auzTz4X-7RUb79vIJv9EqhOknF1K5X2_faaSI&e= >. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
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With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Thank you, Sky for your thoughtful message and for initiating this discourse. I stand in solidarity with your message. Well written. Sacha Sharp, Ph.D, M.A. Pronouns: she/her/hers Assistant Professor of Medicine IUSM Department of Medicine On Jan 22, 2024, at 8:35 AM, Josir Gomes via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: This message was sent from a non-IU address. Please exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments from external sources. 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://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbdsmovement.net%2Facademic-boycott&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579126038%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Do81gDbbv1I0BcPmqhB%2FC9PHJxlyhvqii6DOPtczi6U%3D&reserved=0>). 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 < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfam.... , 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 < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegua... “has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegua... 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. Because AoIR is <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579148637%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=knjtMwOhflNWAiH3Nex6abI8cVFRy%2Fa%2FAU2Fnp2EyJA%3D&reserved=0> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenat... by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Flament-for-the-universities%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579156924%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HnzqP4BFRuojZzJjozdrotCiNm8uFeW2UQUh9qdPrg0%3D&reserved=0>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnu... and students < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnu... have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Fi-have-left-all-my-books-behind%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579170174%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=73fheLAcBQ9GbI3Xvfd%2F2K3VrvwAAzzpBycb6Z0Sr9Q%3D&reserved=0>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprotecting... . Calls for protection <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F03057925.2021.1987192&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579178954%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2l8CzYDRfdTX22biENhw7FwQThbq7hbOB9cxEHVoEoA%3D&reserved=0> have gone unheeded. Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amnest... to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.or... . Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljaze... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnotechforapartheid.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579197975%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ienmkaDxe9z9R%2Be7EcGX9OaxbMN3TGK56Bep941WrQw%3D&reserved=0>. Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.or... the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washin... jail < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuter... and threats of violence <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.972mag.com%2Fisraeli-protest-gaza-war-repression%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579216662%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=g9w9GaY6QIFGjd6uKaEQYjhJmCqqmT8D9JEWGZuiTmM%3D&reserved=0>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.france... . 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://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAssociation_of_Internet_Researchers&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579224660%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dCubkCdQdFLpuO9a%2BtTTAepqvyEJ%2FmfcoiErKgYgxU8%3D&reserved=0> 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. Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishvoiceforpeace.org%2F2023%2F11%2F09%2Fantisemitism-dangerous%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579228460%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GcjgwPgwn%2FKYOeyE5YnybRh9RbaqC0nU1X9O0QVUrCo%3D&reserved=0>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wrmea.... opposition <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjacobin.com%2F2020%2F07%2Fisrael-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579236664%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pXZzv8ljyo%2FJga6QH1zbt%2FgR0%2BbuNKKv5Rb%2BA1bZ7hE%3D&reserved=0> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism. 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 < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cn... Jewish < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuter... people < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegua... . We should not allow them to claim that they do. We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthout.o... a high < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecri... cost < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuinde... on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAnti-BDS_laws&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579266767%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TB0%2BBYWCJ4xwCZ743NAKqgceq2Ggn0RJISjbh4GMscI%3D&reserved=0>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position. But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579270808%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Az%2BHlDdpON7b4soFYqvAeRzb3EsjlvavPictVodGLLY%3D&reserved=0>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Faoir2023%2Faoir2023cfp%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579274796%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=62K9%2FyoAQaRWdoqkRPfXtjqBEBr8%2BzuyxOlhFurFjhc%3D&reserved=0>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope. With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation, sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2F... 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I appreciate your message Sky and also those of our Israeli colleagues who have posted here. I am Jewish, Black, Native American and I deplore the anguish and brutal suffering of the Israelis attacked and the Palestinians who have been killed in order to remove Hamas, a fairly brutal dictatorship, from power. I think that the protests are warranted as an expression of deep empathy for the destruction though lack, by their language and rhetoric, a real understanding of how Israel and Palestine came to be. And also require a thorough condemnation of Hamas’ genocidal actions as well. Truly horrific. I think more Teach-in’s and Heal-in’s would be more helpful than blanket anti-intellectual boycotts against the Israeli academy to be honest. I shutter at how dystopic that sounds to shut down against institutions of knowledge and intellectual exchange. To understand that Israel is the only Jewish state in the world and has served as a refuge for Jewish people from both Arab and African nations too is important to understand and that Zionism is what this represents and like any belief system takes various moderate to radically fundamentalist forms from simply affirming a need for a home for the Jewish people to the racist rhetoric of settlers on the West Bank who want to take over the West Bank. There is a need to understand the differences and nuances of this conflict and how at the outset in 1948, a proposition to partition the land was rejected by the Arab nations and Israel was immediately attacked. Many Arabs stayed and live in Israel today account for 21% of the population. The Oslo accords were a breakthrough for establishing the Palestinian Authority. And was derailed and has been undermined by leaders like Netanyahu and Hamas. Is there a way to educate people better in the history of this region? To understand and fully comprehend Israel’s right to security and exist annd the terrible scope of its retaliation and the Palestinians’ right for a flourishing state and to live without suffering for the brutal actions of its leadership? There were protests against Hamas in Gaza early this year too. Hamas is serious when it threatens to wipe out Israel. As it is also a proxy for Iran too. People are protesting who have no idea about the regional history, context or the brutality that has occurred on both sides of this conflict. I say teaching to understand and create a statement of understanding would be able to give voice and nuanced critical voice for all. As I get closer to 60, I am witnessing how badly the Internet is serving as a real medium of debate and understanding. I want to create more empathy and have both Palestinian and Israeli leadership reimagine the future in order to safeguard both peoples’ rights to coexist. Thanks for reading and listening. Lonny Avi Brooks Lonny aka "Mixcoatl" ("Our Galaxy" in Nahuatl, language of the Aztecs/Toltecs) Kol Tov L'Hitraot (Be well, see you soon) Lonny J Avi Brooks, PhD. <https://lonny-avi-brooks.com/> *Professor* in Strategic Communication, Foresight and Afrofuturism Department of Communication California State University East Bay *+ Creative Director, Afrorithm Futures Group <https://www.afrorithmsfromthefuture.org/>* *AfroRithm Research Happenings & Bio:* https://linktr.ee/lonnyavibrooks *IG:* @avilonny <https://www.instagram.com/avilonny/> *“She told me the world was made of stories, nothing else, just stories, and stories about stories.” ― Tommy Orange, There There <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/books/review/tommy-orange-there-there.html>* On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 9:15 AM Sharp, Sacha Nicole via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thank you, Sky for your thoughtful message and for initiating this discourse. I stand in solidarity with your message. Well written.
Sacha Sharp, Ph.D, M.A. Pronouns: she/her/hers Assistant Professor of Medicine IUSM Department of Medicine
On Jan 22, 2024, at 8:35 AM, Josir Gomes via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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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://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbdsmovement.net%2Facademic-boycott&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579126038%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Do81gDbbv1I0BcPmqhB%2FC9PHJxlyhvqii6DOPtczi6U%3D&reserved=0>). 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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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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“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
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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.
Because AoIR is < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579148637%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=knjtMwOhflNWAiH3Nex6abI8cVFRy%2Fa%2FAU2Fnp2EyJA%3D&reserved=0> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
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by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Flament-for-the-universities%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579156924%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HnzqP4BFRuojZzJjozdrotCiNm8uFeW2UQUh9qdPrg0%3D&reserved=0>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnu...
and students <
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have been killed, injured, and displaced < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Fi-have-left-all-my-books-behind%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579170174%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=73fheLAcBQ9GbI3Xvfd%2F2K3VrvwAAzzpBycb6Z0Sr9Q%3D&reserved=0>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprotecting... . Calls for protection < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F03057925.2021.1987192&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579178954%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2l8CzYDRfdTX22biENhw7FwQThbq7hbOB9cxEHVoEoA%3D&reserved=0> have gone unheeded.
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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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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and threats of violence < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.972mag.com%2Fisraeli-protest-gaza-war-repression%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579216662%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=g9w9GaY6QIFGjd6uKaEQYjhJmCqqmT8D9JEWGZuiTmM%3D&reserved=0>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.france... . 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://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAssociation_of_Internet_Researchers&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579224660%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dCubkCdQdFLpuO9a%2BtTTAepqvyEJ%2FmfcoiErKgYgxU8%3D&reserved=0> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewish...
. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
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opposition < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjacobin.co...
to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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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Jewish <
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people <
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We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
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a high <
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cost <
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAnti-BDS_laws&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579266767%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TB0%2BBYWCJ4xwCZ743NAKqgceq2Ggn0RJISjbh4GMscI%3D&reserved=0>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579270808%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Az%2BHlDdpON7b4soFYqvAeRzb3EsjlvavPictVodGLLY%3D&reserved=0>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Faoir2023%2Faoir2023cfp%2F&data=05%7C02%7CSachshar%40iu.edu%7C914403b6502a4726be8308dc1b4f0efd%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638415273579274796%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=62K9%2FyoAQaRWdoqkRPfXtjqBEBr8%2BzuyxOlhFurFjhc%3D&reserved=0>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Thank you Sky for starting the conversation. I strongly agree with the necessity of a call for academic solidarity and a boycott of Israeli universities, as you suggested. Kind regards, Natasha Tusikov Natasha Tusikov, PhD (she/her) Associate Professor, Criminology Program Department of Social Science Ross South 714A York University 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Office: 416.736.2100 ext. 30158 ntusikov@yorku.ca @NTusikov <ntusikov@yorku.ca> *New book!* Haggart, B. and N. Tusikov (2023) *The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power*. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. Open access ebook available at: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538160879/The-New-Knowledge-Information-Data-and... Haggart, B., Tusikov, N., and JA. Scholte, eds. (2021) *Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State?* London: Routledge. Haggart, B., Henne, K., and N. Tusikov. eds. (2019) *Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century*. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Tusikov, N. (2017) *Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet*. Oakland: University of California Press. On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:41 PM Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 < https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail < https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish < https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people < https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high < https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost < https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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No choice words and pseudo-academic ‘civilized’ language here. Let’s be clear: You are endorsing academic boycotts of your colleagues on this list, in this association, reading right now, in many cases those that built it and nurtured it; Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever their denomination, because they are Israeli or work at Israeli institutions. There is no courage in singling out your colleagues for where they are from or who they are. For shame. On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 4:41 AM Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 < https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail < https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish < https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people < https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high < https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost < https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Perhaps a reasoned position is called for, as public intellectuals we can have a moral voice against war and for peace. There is no condoning either of the Hamas attack, or of the unrestrained obliteration of the civilian population in Gaza. Silence is, however, consent. Many academic associations have made calls for peace and solidarity, and there is a tradition of doing so. -- *Dr. Carolina Cambre (she |her) Associate ProfessorConcordia University, Montréal * *Chercheuse associée à IRCAV-Paris 2020-2025https://www.carolinacambre.com/ <https://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre>https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre <https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre>* *Concordia University is located on Kanien’kehá:ka territory.* *University of Alberta is located on Treaty 6 / Métis territory.* On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 3:27 PM Vanessa Siebler via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
No choice words and pseudo-academic ‘civilized’ language here. Let’s be clear: You are endorsing academic boycotts of your colleagues on this list, in this association, reading right now, in many cases those that built it and nurtured it; Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever their denomination, because they are Israeli or work at Israeli institutions.
There is no courage in singling out your colleagues for where they are from or who they are. For shame.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 4:41 AM Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Thank you, Sky, for having the courage to send the initial email in this thread. Notice how acknowledgement of Palestinians in Gaza suffering from indiscriminate bombing and starvation is warped and twisted into being "pro-Hamas." I invite members to consider why any criticism of Israel's onslaught is immediately hawked on as "Hamas propaganda" or "Jew-hatred." Consider why the call for a statement of solidarity is met with "what about October 7," as if Israel has not been blockading Gaza since 2007 <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/world/middleeast/gaza-blockade-israel.html> and illegally occupying the West Bank <https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/> since 1967. In solidarity and support. On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 3:27 PM Vanessa Siebler via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
No choice words and pseudo-academic ‘civilized’ language here. Let’s be clear: You are endorsing academic boycotts of your colleagues on this list, in this association, reading right now, in many cases those that built it and nurtured it; Jewish, Muslim, Christian or whatever their denomination, because they are Israeli or work at Israeli institutions.
There is no courage in singling out your colleagues for where they are from or who they are. For shame.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 4:41 AM Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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In complete agreement and solidarity. Best, Sara ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Sky Croeser via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2024 10:24:55 PM To: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having 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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam>, 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 <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-israel-katz-isaac-herzog-israel-gaza-palestine-war-meets-hamas-hostages> “has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-support-yemen-airstrikes-us-uk> 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. Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-gaza-strikes-continue/> by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/> and students <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-2023/> have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_palestine_2022_en.pdf>. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded. Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid/> to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st>. Telecommunications systems are shut down <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardment-as-internet-and-phone-services-go-down>, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>. Because Israeli citizens who protest <https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war> the actions of their government (including on social media) face <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-hamas/> jail <https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-citizens-expressing-solidarity-with-gaza-2023-10-20/> and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-jail-time>. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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. Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-untold-history-of-jewish-opposition-to-zionism.html> opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism. 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 <https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza/index.html> Jewish <https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-ceasefire-2023-12-15/> people <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-washington-dc>. We should not allow them to claim that they do. We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-criminalized-warns-academic/> a high <https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feature/> cost <https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statement-taken-down-after-pushback/> on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position. But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope. With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation, sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
It would useful to refer to the provided links regarding the AAA boycott in order to better understand what an academic boycott might entail: https://www.anthroboycott.org/the-resolution and https://www.anthroboycott.org/myths-facts. The last link is particularly useful as it addresses many of the points raised in this thread, such as the question of whether boycotts are empty symbolic gestures or whether boycotts stifle academic freedom. In particular, I'd like to draw your attention to the following passage: "The boycott is not directed at individuals; it is directed at the institutions in which they work. It does not deny Israeli scholars the right to attend conferences (including the AAA meetings), speak at or visit U.S. universities, or publish their work in AAA publications. Nor will a boycott prevent U.S. scholars from traveling to Israel. Individual AAA members will remain free to decide whether and how to implement the boycott on their own." Best, Sara ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Sky Croeser via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2024 10:30:39 p.m. To: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having 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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam>, 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 <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-israel-katz-isaac-herzog-israel-gaza-palestine-war-meets-hamas-hostages> “has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-support-yemen-airstrikes-us-uk> 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. Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-gaza-strikes-continue/> by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/> and students <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-2023/> have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_palestine_2022_en.pdf>. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded. Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid/> to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st>. Telecommunications systems are shut down <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardment-as-internet-and-phone-services-go-down>, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>. Because Israeli citizens who protest <https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war> the actions of their government (including on social media) face <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-hamas/> jail <https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-citizens-expressing-solidarity-with-gaza-2023-10-20/> and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-jail-time>. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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. Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-untold-history-of-jewish-opposition-to-zionism.html> opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism. 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 <https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza/index.html> Jewish <https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-ceasefire-2023-12-15/> people <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-washington-dc>. We should not allow them to claim that they do. We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-criminalized-warns-academic/> a high <https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feature/> cost <https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statement-taken-down-after-pushback/> on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position. But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope. With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation, sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Thank you Sky for this courageous message. You've restored my faith in humanity a little bit at the end of a very long and hard day. I do support a statement against the genocide in Gaza. All the best. Rasha Rasha A. Abdulla Professor Journalism and Mass Communication The American University in Cairo Twitter: @RashaAbdulla http://twitter.com/rashaabdulla On Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 5:27 AM Sky Croeser via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 < https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail < https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish < https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people < https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high < https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost < https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Dear all, upon reading the entire thread, it seems obvious that we need to urge everyone to go back to a humanitarian foundation. Some people in the thread seem to have lost their hearts. Some commentators are lost in distractions, such as contesting that “conflict” is a war at all, arguing that people also get killed in Yemen, (so we can ignore Palestine). And, then there is the “but” that is eventually used to place and project cause, blame and guilt. Some of us are researchers, teachers, and human beings with students in seminar rooms, what can we tell them? Some of us have been teaching peace- and conflict studies with seminar groups consisting of people embodying very conflicts, torture and atrocities that we deal with. To seriously engage in this in teaching and in AOIR, we need to start from basics. Are we not in this also because people are suffering, collective suffering, whether war crimes, forced gang rapes, torture, massacres, genocide, and cultural destruction. There is only one point of departure as priority: Mass number of people suffering and right now. No distractions should shift the focus. Now is NOT the time to expose entrenched polarizing identities as proud Americans, or whatever. 1) The fact is that an awful lot of people lost their lives in the Oct 7 Hamas attack. Hamas does not accept the existence of Israel as a state. People who were killed, maimed, taken hostage or closely related are suffering in ways hard to comprehend unless perhaps you have been directly or vicariously suffering yourself in similar situations. 2) The fact is that an awful lot of people have lost their lives in Gaza and have been taken prisoners, while the entire population of Gaza are displaced, struggling to survive while deprived of water, toilets, electricity, food, medicine, diapers, antibiotics, and mobility. Tens of thousands are suffering and dying unable to move or flee. 3) The Israeli government used the Hamas attack to mobilize more than 300.000 Israeli soldiers and is the direct cause of the suffering. 4) The fact is that a large minority of Israelis oppose the mass killings, which many of us see as genocide. Of course, Sky has an important point about the statement and hopefully this can be enacted. It seems that the next move for the AOIR steering committee may be to take a vote about a specific statement. There will never be a full consensus, but if a large majority agrees, then that is support of the statement. The American Anthropology Association (AAA) resolution and boycott of Israeli universities, supported by many colleagues in Israel, followed this procedure. A statement could include what we study, or say is part of what we study. Deconstruction the technopolitics, digital extreme speech, the vitriol amplified by social media and the asymmetric power relations involved - however you wish to write it. In addition, the disinformation, misinformation – the generation of what I have elsewhere called “strategic ignorance” - is what we (also) study. This is where we may even be able to exchange fact-based findings that could make a difference to a wider audience. To support a government or UN that says it is wrong what Hamas and Israel is doing is too thin and insufficient. We need more. And there is no platform of neutrality when it comes to enormous human suffering. With regards, Peter Hervik Network of Independent Scholars in Education. Latest: Udupa, Sahana, Iginio Garliardone and Peter Hervik (eds.). 2021. *Digital Hate.* The *Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech*. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Den tirs. 23. jan. 2024 kl. 14.55 skrev Dr. Rasha Abdulla via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org>:
Thank you Sky for this courageous message. You've restored my faith in humanity a little bit at the end of a very long and hard day. I do support a statement against the genocide in Gaza.
All the best. Rasha
Rasha A. Abdulla Professor Journalism and Mass Communication The American University in Cairo Twitter: @RashaAbdulla http://twitter.com/rashaabdulla
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 5:27 AM Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Dear AoIR members, I am new to AoIR so I don't feel like I should have an equal voice about what to do, but I wanted to provide a perspective from the American Studies Association, which adopted a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) resolution and policy 10 years ago. I am proud to have been a member and voting yes on the issue at the time. As a reminder, BDS does not mean boycotting individual scholars or any individuals, only institutions funded by or representing the state of Israel. BDS was proposed by the ASA Executive Committee first, and then discussed at an in-person meeting of the ASA. The discussion was very heated at the time, but the majority of the in-person members voted yes on the issue. It was then put out to the entire membership via an online vote, and the majority voted yes. Perhaps the AoIR can consider organizing a meeting of membership on BDS and related issues at the next conference, to give members an opportunity to debate the issues in person and vote on them. Members may vote either yes or no on BDS, but they should have an opportunity to do so. Best, Elena Elena Razlogova Associate Professor of History Concordia University, Montreal elenarazlogova.org LB 1041-11 On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 8:56 AM Dr. Rasha Abdulla via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thank you Sky for this courageous message. You've restored my faith in humanity a little bit at the end of a very long and hard day. I do support a statement against the genocide in Gaza.
All the best. Rasha
Rasha A. Abdulla Professor Journalism and Mass Communication The American University in Cairo Twitter: @RashaAbdulla http://twitter.com/rashaabdulla
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 5:27 AM Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost <
https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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The AAA and ASA effectively purged Jews from their ranks when they passed their antisemitic BDS initiatives, echoing past tactics used in the Soviet USSR to rid the country of its Jewish intellectuals. https://fathomjournal.org/soviet-anti-zionism-and-contemporary-left-antisemi... ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Elena Razlogova via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 2:36 AM To: Dr. Rasha Abdulla <rasha@aucegypt.edu> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Dear AoIR members, I am new to AoIR so I don't feel like I should have an equal voice about what to do, but I wanted to provide a perspective from the American Studies Association, which adopted a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) resolution and policy 10 years ago. I am proud to have been a member and voting yes on the issue at the time. As a reminder, BDS does not mean boycotting individual scholars or any individuals, only institutions funded by or representing the state of Israel. BDS was proposed by the ASA Executive Committee first, and then discussed at an in-person meeting of the ASA. The discussion was very heated at the time, but the majority of the in-person members voted yes on the issue. It was then put out to the entire membership via an online vote, and the majority voted yes. Perhaps the AoIR can consider organizing a meeting of membership on BDS and related issues at the next conference, to give members an opportunity to debate the issues in person and vote on them. Members may vote either yes or no on BDS, but they should have an opportunity to do so. Best, Elena Elena Razlogova Associate Professor of History Concordia University, Montreal elenarazlogova.org LB 1041-11 On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 8:56 AM Dr. Rasha Abdulla via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thank you Sky for this courageous message. You've restored my faith in humanity a little bit at the end of a very long and hard day. I do support a statement against the genocide in Gaza.
All the best. Rasha
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 5:27 AM Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbdsmovement.net%2Facademic-boycott&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621357964%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0A%2FuzTrTMCuqC2e8jbAlC387YmS34WK9mYtve3nIb2k%3D&reserved=0<https://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>>). 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 <
, 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 <
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
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.
Because AoIR is <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621376736%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YukiZM26qVpwkUlXXdlk0dHxMeJUpHSF9ORd3VyN5sk%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Flament-for-the-universities%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621386780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zyEwBHlvXn3il0zYmcIqMEMbu806gQ3XLYX%2FclCuxFY%3D&reserved=0<https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Ftributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621393190%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=amY%2FeXIuBXgSq0t1QtBe7rzo%2FzmwI%2FaXMKoOvxFT0lI%3D&reserved=0<https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/>
and students <
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearenotnumbers.org%2Fi-have-left-all-my-books-behind%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621408548%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=J9i5Yd8NWRpqvCjI%2B5SLpd8T%2FHtXYXcLSemjFPu%2BdaA%3D&reserved=0<https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnotechforapartheid.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621435168%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XdDa5hy2nihoxep3LNcuWitNlL9xdVwyER5iebwou3w%3D&reserved=0<https://notechforapartheid.com/>>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
jail <
and threats of violence <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.972mag.com%2Fisraeli-protest-gaza-war-repression%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621452039%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2DULtalydPTBq0%2Bwcb7L2BhfHPjAUiU8Ga%2Fw9C2D%2BFs%3D&reserved=0<https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
. 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://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAssociation_of_Internet_Researchers&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621460342%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0zXkDBBWUWRU4y8D63sfyUjhdrOLqb0PKBYpJDwimOI%3D&reserved=0<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers>> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewish... . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
opposition <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjacobin.com%2F2020%2F07%2Fisrael-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621472763%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tyd0C3MOQHJ9MYMdCuQ3VgX4N6Hm673%2F0jQnDHfEhZg%3D&reserved=0<https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left>> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
Jewish <
people <
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
a high <
cost <
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAnti-BDS_laws&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621501922%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AGT2PNbo4p2teI3PO04xFZTP0b6I7l%2BqPabQWdf%2BIaI%3D&reserved=0<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Fdiversity-and-inclusivity%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621506012%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=efCycUCSYN1kRY0jZf81o97IB4eof66nJszJkhX6zvw%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2Faoir2023%2Faoir2023cfp%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cm.alper%40northeastern.edu%7Cd25824cbffaf433fbfbb08dc1caf1c27%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C638416785621510079%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=RpTpBHjfzOSRL0xSYuiCzSU5fOiKJF9JCA54F1pBGj0%3D&reserved=0<https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Dear AOIRs, Like many on this list, including the AOIR president who deserves much admiration for his ongoing patience, I am both Israeli and Jewish. I am also a vocal critic of the Israeli government. For years, I have advocated for an end to the occupation in Gaza and the West Bank. And yet, also for a Palestinian state. However, unlike those who may not live the situation in Israel, which Nik rightly described as incredibly complex, I cannot solely blame the state of Israel for it. I will not try to convince you that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza. We are not. While I believe the international community can do more to ensure fairness for both Israel and Palestine, I still support external scrutiny of all actors involved. I strongly oppose the notion that the situation is "balanced." It's simply not possible to achieve equilibrium in this context. The suffering of the population in Gaza is primarily a consequence of a terrorist group gaining control of the area and the international community turning a blind eye to the situation, rather than Israel's actions. Therefore, I must question your approach. You claim Israel deliberately targets civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, yet you oppose harming civilians at any cost. Yet, when you call for academic boycotts, your "missiles" target us, uninvolved citizens. Your actions essentially call your government to target me, my wife, and my two young daughters. I am not tenured and may never be. Your call could cost me my job. How is this different from your opposition to the displacement and hardship faced by Palestinians? Is the difference simply that, as a "privileged academic," I have more resources to cope? Does that justify targeting civilians in one instance but not another? Let me be clear: academia and government are in constant competition for power, even beyond Israel. Boycotting and weakening Israeli academia will likely have minimal impact on the government. In fact, it might be seen as a victory. We, academics, have the freedom of speech and criticism. It's no coincidence that strong voices criticizing Israel often come from within. So, what are you truly trying to achieve? To silence the very criticisms you hold as valid? That seems counterproductive. Reading your messages, I identified a few names – individuals who, unfortunately, already boycotted me in the past. One such instance occurred during my PhD when, after politely introducing myself, I was questioned about my nationality and subsequently boycotted solely for being Israeli. As a scholar, I never judge individuals based on their nationality. In fact, I've always sought connections with those I wouldn't encounter in my daily life, from Palestinians to Syrians and Iranians. If you believe the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza, you are demonstrably wrong. However, I cannot control your beliefs. But please, target your actions at the government, not me, my family, or uninvolved citizens. Many of you have expressed horror at discussions exploring when targeting civilians is "allowed." Don't do what you claim to oppose. Finally, I offer some "suggestions" regarding previous points: To those studying the spread of misinformation, consider the sources of your data. You quote numbers solely provided by Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization. All UN and even BDS movement data are based on these figures. You wouldn't publish a paper in an unrated journal using such data, so why are you so reluctant to be critical of it? Apply your methods for analyzing disinformation to this data. You mention XXXXX deaths in Gaza, with 70% women and children. Even without questioning those numbers, what about the militants killed while fighting, firing rockets at Israeli civilians, or abusing hostages? Why is this number not presented? And what about the statistically improbable distribution of casualties? Can you suggest Israel deliberately targets women and children? What purpose would that serve? To those versed in war history, consider this asymmetric war against terrorism. You mention the demolished university in Gaza. But what about the rockets fired from there towards Israel? Ignoring these launchers, used within the university, allows Hamas to target and kill innocent civilians – something you oppose. Why are there rocket launchers in a university? Were similar weapons hidden in Gaza's hospitals? Why is Hamas using civilians as human shields? Consider classic war philosophy dilemmas. You know a rocket aimed at your civilians will launch shortly, but terrorists forcibly hold civilians in the launch area. What do you do? Not destroying the launcher guarantees civilian deaths in Israel. Does destroying it make you responsible for those forcefully held by Hamas? Of course not. The situation in this region is incredibly complex. For years, we have begged the international community for help. Criticism and boycotts do not help Israelis or Palestinians suffering under Hamas's rule and full accountability. While, as Marcella wrote, Hamas cannot be officially held accountable for anything under international law, it doesn't absolve Israel. However, the international community also bears responsibility for ignoring Hamas's terrorism and failing to protect both Israelis and Palestinians. But rest assured, I will never call for a boycott of your academic institutions because I simply don't believe in it. May we all find peace and prosperity. Sincerely, Nathan
Thank you for your message Sky, it would indeed be great for academic groups like AoIR to voice their clear opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the rest of Palestine. In solidarity, /P On 22 January, 2024 - Sky Croeser via Air-L wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam>, 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 <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-israel-katz-isaac-herzog-israel-gaza-palestine-war-meets-hamas-hostages> “has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-support-yemen-airstrikes-us-uk> 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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-gaza-strikes-continue/> by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/> and students <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-2023/> have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_palestine_2022_en.pdf>. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid/> to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st>. Telecommunications systems are shut down <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardment-as-internet-and-phone-services-go-down>, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war> the actions of their government (including on social media) face <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-hamas/> jail <https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-citizens-expressing-solidarity-with-gaza-2023-10-20/> and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-jail-time>. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-untold-history-of-jewish-opposition-to-zionism.html> opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza/index.html> Jewish <https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-ceasefire-2023-12-15/> people <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-washington-dc>. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-criminalized-warns-academic/> a high <https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feature/> cost <https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statement-taken-down-after-pushback/> on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Several of our colleagues in Israel have written to this list about the loss of acquaintances, friends, students, and colleagues. They have asked that their grief and fear not be forgotten. I send my condolences to those who have experienced loss and trauma. I would like to take a moment to note that we have not had Palestinian colleagues send similar emails to the list. I want to take a moment to make this visible. It is not because we have no Palestinian colleagues. Since opening this conversation, I have had private emails from Palestinian academics on this list who have said they've felt forgotten and abandoned by their academic communities. One wrote (asking me to share it with name and details removed - and I do hope that this will be allowed through to the main list, as it is one of the few messages from a Palestinian colleague about their experiences): "*Thank you for your courage in sending such an email. As a Palestinian, it made me tear up, as I finally see my people being acknowledged by one of several academic communities I am part of, which have been silent.* *I am, of course, a very privileged Palestinian as I currently live [overseas], but my whole family and friends are in Palestine, and I do travel back home. I don’t even dare to post publicly in this forum, as I have a great fear for my safety and my family’s safety.* *Please look up [Technion] and how deeply it’s interlinked with the Israeli military and apartheid, probably also developing the face recognition technology that the Israeli occupation military used last summer in the West Bank to scan [the faces of people who I know] and put them in their database.* *People like Ayelet who live across the wall of apartheid with all the privileges and power she has are exactly why we need to have these tough and rightful conversations. In her recent email she is also supporting the collective punishment of millions of Palestinians and depriving them from basic necessities like fuel that are essential to run hospitals that are providing medical aid to hundreds of thousands of displaced and injured Palestinian people. * *It demonstrates that after 75 years of oppression and occupation, and 105 days of non-stop ethnic cleansing and genocide, change will never come from within Israeli society, but rather from outside pressure.* *Feel free to repost my message, but please remove my email and information as this will pose great risk for my safety." *Further information on Technion which this colleague refers to is available here <https://bdsmovement.net/news/mcgill-and-concordia-must-boycott-technion>. Do we have colleagues in Gaza who cannot reply to the mailing list to let us know of their grief, fears, and suffering in the way that others have? I don't know. *Did* we have colleagues in Gaza, 109 days ago, who we will now never hear from again? I don't know. I understand and sympathise with Israeli colleagues who do not want us to forget their losses from October 7th 2023. I also wonder if we have Palestinian colleagues who wish that they felt safe telling us about their losses not just since that date, but also in the years before it. If they would like to urge us, similarly, to see their pain and acknowledge it. I wonder if there are Palestinian colleagues who wish they could talk openly to us about the history of arrests of Palestinian students <https://law4palestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Law-for-Palestine-Report.-Israels-Arrest-Policy-against-Palestinian-University-Students-in-the-West-Bank-and-Israel-.pdf>. Or about the delays and chaos they face in their own teaching. Personal stories of students, colleagues, and loved ones who have been killed or prevented from studying over the years. We do not have those stories. I hope that none of us will allow ourselves to imagine it is because they do not exist. And I hope that we will think deeply about why it is that we do not get to read any of them.
Based on this last message from Sky: could we all agree with a statement giving more visibility to society to all the distress that academics from Gaza and Israel have been facing due to the war? There are many consequences to Human Rights both to Palestinians and Israelis at universities. And it matches AoIR vocation to education and research. Em qua., 24 de jan. de 2024 às 04:12, Sky Croeser via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> escreveu:
Several of our colleagues in Israel have written to this list about the loss of acquaintances, friends, students, and colleagues. They have asked that their grief and fear not be forgotten. I send my condolences to those who have experienced loss and trauma.
I would like to take a moment to note that we have not had Palestinian colleagues send similar emails to the list. I want to take a moment to make this visible.
It is not because we have no Palestinian colleagues. Since opening this conversation, I have had private emails from Palestinian academics on this list who have said they've felt forgotten and abandoned by their academic communities. One wrote (asking me to share it with name and details removed - and I do hope that this will be allowed through to the main list, as it is one of the few messages from a Palestinian colleague about their experiences):
"*Thank you for your courage in sending such an email. As a Palestinian, it made me tear up, as I finally see my people being acknowledged by one of several academic communities I am part of, which have been silent.*
*I am, of course, a very privileged Palestinian as I currently live [overseas], but my whole family and friends are in Palestine, and I do travel back home. I don’t even dare to post publicly in this forum, as I have a great fear for my safety and my family’s safety.*
*Please look up [Technion] and how deeply it’s interlinked with the Israeli military and apartheid, probably also developing the face recognition technology that the Israeli occupation military used last summer in the West Bank to scan [the faces of people who I know] and put them in their database.*
*People like Ayelet who live across the wall of apartheid with all the privileges and power she has are exactly why we need to have these tough and rightful conversations. In her recent email she is also supporting the collective punishment of millions of Palestinians and depriving them from basic necessities like fuel that are essential to run hospitals that are providing medical aid to hundreds of thousands of displaced and injured Palestinian people. * *It demonstrates that after 75 years of oppression and occupation, and 105 days of non-stop ethnic cleansing and genocide, change will never come from within Israeli society, but rather from outside pressure.*
*Feel free to repost my message, but please remove my email and information as this will pose great risk for my safety." *Further information on Technion which this colleague refers to is available here <https://bdsmovement.net/news/mcgill-and-concordia-must-boycott-technion>.
Do we have colleagues in Gaza who cannot reply to the mailing list to let us know of their grief, fears, and suffering in the way that others have? I don't know. *Did* we have colleagues in Gaza, 109 days ago, who we will now never hear from again? I don't know.
I understand and sympathise with Israeli colleagues who do not want us to forget their losses from October 7th 2023.
I also wonder if we have Palestinian colleagues who wish that they felt safe telling us about their losses not just since that date, but also in the years before it. If they would like to urge us, similarly, to see their pain and acknowledge it. I wonder if there are Palestinian colleagues who wish they could talk openly to us about the history of arrests of Palestinian students < https://law4palestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Law-for-Palestine-Repor...
. Or about the delays and chaos they face in their own teaching. Personal stories of students, colleagues, and loved ones who have been killed or prevented from studying over the years.
We do not have those stories. I hope that none of us will allow ourselves to imagine it is because they do not exist. And I hope that we will think deeply about why it is that we do not get to read any of them. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Hello Sky, While I appreciate your contribution to the discussion, here in Israel, we do not believe in the harassment of individuals during academic discussions. I view this discussion as important, but if you are unable to communicate in a professional manner, might I suggest that you have someone else review your emails before you send them? I also ask those involved in the discussion to look up the definition of ‘genocide’ before they use the term and to review the actions of their own governments to previous terror attacks. Finally, I suggest that Europeans who live in glass houses on Aboriginal land would be a little less enthusiastic about throwing stones. Best, Prof. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Sky Croeser via Air-L Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:21 To: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] The difficult conversation we don't seem to be having Several of our colleagues in Israel have written to this list about the loss of acquaintances, friends, students, and colleagues. They have asked that their grief and fear not be forgotten. I send my condolences to those who have experienced loss and trauma. I would like to take a moment to note that we have not had Palestinian colleagues send similar emails to the list. I want to take a moment to make this visible. It is not because we have no Palestinian colleagues. Since opening this conversation, I have had private emails from Palestinian academics on this list who have said they've felt forgotten and abandoned by their academic communities. One wrote (asking me to share it with name and details removed - and I do hope that this will be allowed through to the main list, as it is one of the few messages from a Palestinian colleague about their experiences): "*Thank you for your courage in sending such an email. As a Palestinian, it made me tear up, as I finally see my people being acknowledged by one of several academic communities I am part of, which have been silent.* *I am, of course, a very privileged Palestinian as I currently live [overseas], but my whole family and friends are in Palestine, and I do travel back home. I don’t even dare to post publicly in this forum, as I have a great fear for my safety and my family’s safety.* *Please look up [Technion] and how deeply it’s interlinked with the Israeli military and apartheid, probably also developing the face recognition technology that the Israeli occupation military used last summer in the West Bank to scan [the faces of people who I know] and put them in their database.* *People like Ayelet who live across the wall of apartheid with all the privileges and power she has are exactly why we need to have these tough and rightful conversations. In her recent email she is also supporting the collective punishment of millions of Palestinians and depriving them from basic necessities like fuel that are essential to run hospitals that are providing medical aid to hundreds of thousands of displaced and injured Palestinian people. * *It demonstrates that after 75 years of oppression and occupation, and 105 days of non-stop ethnic cleansing and genocide, change will never come from within Israeli society, but rather from outside pressure.* *Feel free to repost my message, but please remove my email and information as this will pose great risk for my safety." *Further information on Technion which this colleague refers to is available here <https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___https://bdsmovement.net/news/mcgill-and-concordia-must-boycott-technion___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzpmNTBkNzQzNWRlMzM4ZTlmM2Y4MGYyYTEwNDc4MWUyNzo2OjU2YjE6OWNjYjM4NGVmNzQ5ZTZjMDgzZDM3NzU3MzgyY2FhYzlmOThjY2RiZTM2YjFkOTA1YmQ5MzI0YzMxNmEzYmVjZjpwOlQ>. Do we have colleagues in Gaza who cannot reply to the mailing list to let us know of their grief, fears, and suffering in the way that others have? I don't know. *Did* we have colleagues in Gaza, 109 days ago, who we will now never hear from again? I don't know. I understand and sympathise with Israeli colleagues who do not want us to forget their losses from October 7th 2023. I also wonder if we have Palestinian colleagues who wish that they felt safe telling us about their losses not just since that date, but also in the years before it. If they would like to urge us, similarly, to see their pain and acknowledge it. I wonder if there are Palestinian colleagues who wish they could talk openly to us about the history of arrests of Palestinian students <https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___https://law4palestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Law-for-Palestine-Report.-Israels-Arrest-Policy-against-Palestinian-University-Students-in-the-West-Bank-and-Israel-.pdf___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6bzpmNTBkNzQzNWRlMzM4ZTlmM2Y4MGYyYTEwNDc4MWUyNzo2OjI2ZDY6M2U0MTk5NjQwM2I3MTNiOTg5M2ZiMWM0N2ZkNjA1ZWRlYzVkYWZkYjhjYWEzMzg0ZjY3NzY1YjhmZWVhNDk4ZjpwOlQ>. Or about the delays and chaos they face in their own teaching. Personal stories of students, colleagues, and loved ones who have been killed or prevented from studying over the years. We do not have those stories. I hope that none of us will allow ourselves to imagine it is because they do not exist. And I hope that we will think deeply about why it is that we do not get to read any of them. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://aoir.org___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9uOmM6... Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/a... Join the Association of Internet Researchers: https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___http://www.aoir.org/___.YzJlOnRlY2huaW9... External e-mail, be judicious when opening attachments or links
Hi everyone, I can see that many people find this conversation very unpleasant, and wish for it to stop. Or for us to declare a metaphorical ceasefire (while not actually calling for a real one). Or perhaps to have the conversation elsewhere so that no one has to look at it. I remind you that it is possible to set up a mail filter (for example, sending all emails with the header words "The difficult conversation" or even all emails from my address) to a separate folder, or even for immediate deletion. It is certainly very unpleasant to confront the fact that we have deep disagreements within our membership. I will, as many people have suggested, certainly get in touch off-list with those who are in favour of taking some action so that we can continue the discussion (please be patient with me, that may take a week or so). I particularly understand that for those who want us to act in solidarity with Palestinians, many of the messages here must be gruelling to read. Perhaps it would be better if we had never had this conversation. Perhaps it would be better to let the lovely words on our website and in our calls for proposals and so on, about a commitment to academic freedom and supporting marginalised scholars, about inclusivity and diversity, sit unexamined. I admit that when I brought up this conversation I was not expecting everyone to agree. I expected some people to say that it's not our place to make political statements. I expected some people to argue for a watered-down "we generally deplore violence by everyone everywhere" statement while others wanted something firmer and more meaningful. I expected a few people to call me antisemitic or get annoyed with me. Perhaps even for someone to try to get me fired. (And for those offering words of personal support, I appreciate it but please don't worry about me.) What I did not actually expect was that some AoIR members would very publicly and openly speak about the justice and necessity and inevitability of the mass killing and punishment of civilians (as long as they are Palestinian). My previous email singled out some of Ayelet's statements. It was, as I hope I made clear, a forwarded and hopefully de-identified message from a Palestinian colleague. I debated removing Ayelet's name and trying to make the email more general, but given that our Palestinian colleagues already face significant censorship and don't feel safe posting directly to the list, I did not want to further water down the message. So I will take responsibility for the claim that this is "harassment" ("here in Israel, we do not believe in the harassment of individuals during academic discussions" - We have certainly seen on this list how committed Israeli academics are to professional behaviour and avoiding personal remarks during discussions.) Personally, I do not think that pointing out the consequences and meaning of someone's public statements, or asking them whether they are sure that the principles they argue for are internally consistent and reasonable, is harassment. If you say it is necessary to stop all fuel to Gaza even when that fuel is used to power incubators for premature babies who will therefore die, and that you can imagine no other solution and no alternatives to the current actions of the Israeli government...it is reasonable for someone to reply that this argument demonstrates that change is unlikely to come from within Israeli society. I hope that we have also colleagues in Israel who oppose the actions of their government, even if they do not feel safe saying so publicly in the current context. I am not a European - although I have European ancestry none of my ancestors were born in Europe since my great-grandparents left Greece. I don't know what that makes me, however, I do acknowledge that I am living on stolen Aboriginal land. I like to think that I work actively to recognise it and take material action in response, much as that often seems inadequate. (We might also point to the horrific indefinite detention of asylum seekers in Australia, or Australia's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, all of which I have protested.) We can also recognise that the Australian government has joined the US, UK, and other in providing direct support for the bombing of Yemen <https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/australian-support-us-and-uk-strikes-yemen-dangerous-escalation-time-peace>. If for that reason those calling for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions feel at some point that it should extend to Australian academic institutions, I will be in support. On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 9:55 pm, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari <ayelet@technion.ac.il> wrote:
Hello Sky, While I appreciate your contribution to the discussion, here in Israel, we do not believe in the harassment of individuals during academic discussions. I view this discussion as important, but if you are unable to communicate in a professional manner, might I suggest that you have someone else review your emails before you send them? I also ask those involved in the discussion to look up the definition of ‘genocide’ before they use the term and to review the actions of their own governments to previous terror attacks. Finally, I suggest that Europeans who live in glass houses on Aboriginal land would be a little less enthusiastic about throwing stones. Best, Prof. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
Well said. On Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 05:46 Sky Croeser via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 < https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail < https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish < https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people < https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high < https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost < https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Dear colleagues, I thank Sky for having started this conversation. It needed to happen. It needs to continue happening. It's also worrying (if not frankly depressing, to be honest) to witness how quickly the discussion can deteriorate, even in scholarly spaces. The most famous line from Terence's* Heauton Timorumenos *is "*homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto*", but the same play also includes the lines "*nam deteriores omnes sumus licentia*". In that sense, my personal view, if I may (since plenty of others have been sharing theirs here), is that we may be overestimating the significance of a potential public collective, organisational agreement or consensus. (Other colleagues have already referred to that in this thread). Even in the awareness that the views expressed on this thread do not represent the different views of the entirety of the AoIR membership, the posts so far do indicate, unsuprisingly and to say the least, profound disagreements. In any case, it seems there is really little hope for reaching a consensus on this issue via email. For what it's worth, in my humble opinion that does not bear well for peaceful conflict resolution, within or outside academia, but I guess most of us already knew that. At the same time, I wish it were possible for all of us to agree that the world in general, and in this case -because it's the specific case we've been discussing and not others, even when everything is connected- Gaza needs peace. It should not be controversial to call for peace. As things are historically complex and complicated, it sadly is. Therefore, in that sense, I do tend to agree with Ernesto Oyarbide that at this stage, "a dedicated forum, or opt-in email chain, to discuss stances/statements would be more appropriate." A practical suggestion is that there could be a shared online draft where those interested in subscribing to Sky's original message (which to me personally seemed nuanced, thoughtful and well-meant) could work on such a statement for potential signing as members of this association, of their affiliated institutions or on personal capacity. AoIR as a whole may not agree on a most pressing issue, but that does not mean that AoIR member groups cannot. Peace be with you all. Dr Ernesto Priego City, University of London If any typos remained in this email, thank you for your understanding. @ernestopriego https://ernestopriego.com/ The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Parables of Care: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/parablesofcare/ Symbola Comics: https://figshare.com/collections/Symbola_Comics/4090025 Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj The information contained in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail must not be forwarded, disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of any related organisations, projects, colleagues or employers. On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 07:54, Michael Dahan via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Well said.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 05:46 Sky Croeser via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org
wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 <
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen <
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed <
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students <
https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new <
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology <
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” <
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down <
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen...
, making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest <
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail <
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army <
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/ . It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish <
https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 <
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish <
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose <
https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high <
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on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
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Thank you for your thoughtful and well-constructed email, Sky. Throughout these many emails, the lack of voices from our Palestinian colleagues is notable and deafening. Sadly, they don't have the privilege of replying to this email chain to convince their colleagues of their inherent humanity and value. Currently, they are wondering if today will be their last. They are grinding up animal feed to sustain themselves desperately <https://uk.news.yahoo.com/gazans-mill-animal-feed-flour-161123586.html> as only a trickle of aid slips into Gaza <https://www.politico.eu/article/antonio-guterres-un-chief-israel-create-massive-obstacles-gaza-aid/> . They are wondering if the white flag they wave will be sprayed red <https://www.itv.com/news/2024-01-23/moment-civilian-brandishing-white-flag-in-gaza-safe-zone-is-shot-dead> . They are wondering if their children will see the next sunrise <https://www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-10000-children-killed-nearly-100-days-war> . While we debate, the indiscriminate killing of 25,000 Palestinians, 10,000 of whom are children, continues. In return for this blood, the Israeli state has brought just one hostage safely home <https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-finds-tunnel-in-khan-younis-where-20-hostages-were-held-in-inhumane-conditions/#:~:text=It%20is%20believed%20that%20132,weeklong%20truce%20in%20late%20November.&text=Four%20hostages%20were%20released%20prior,one%20was%20rescued%20by%20troops.> through military means. It's clear to anyone with intellectual honesty that a strategy of human shields only works if the involved party cares about the death of the "shield" in question. It is evident, from their escalatory actions, that the Israeli state does not care about Palestinians or even the hostages' lives. This is simply the wanton destruction of a people at any cost; this is Amalek <https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israel-palestine-gaza-saul-samuel-old-testament/> . As someone starting their journey in academia, the willful ignorance and moral cowardice I have seen here makes me wonder if I have made a grievous error. The last time I checked, Hamas did not run any Universities. But the state of Israel, which is regularly in breach of international law <https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-acting-against-international-law-says-eu-diplomat-josep-borrell/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CSome%20of%20the%20actions%20%5Bby,international%20law%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said.>, does. I fully support and hope that the executive will put forth a statement that, at the very least, calls for a ceasefire, as the families of the Israeli hostages have called for <https://on.ft.com/3U9h61h>. Let me be clear. Dialogue, mutual understanding, and peace are our only salvation, as evidenced by the peace process in North of Ireland. I can assure you that this will not come from the barrel of a gun or the trajectory of a missile. History will judge us, and we must act accordingly. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." - Yeshayahu, 5:20 In Solidarity, Dylan Murphy PhD Candidate. On Mon 22 Jan 2024, 03:40 Sky Croeser via Air-L, <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott>). 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 < https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-oth...
, 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 < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/penny-wong-meets-isra...
“has met with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and assured them that she will continue to use Australia’s voice to call for the immediate, unconditional and safe return of all hostages” and affirmed Australian support for Israel, while only “raising concerns” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Australia has also supported the US/UK bombing of Yemen < https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/australia-military-su...
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.
Because AoIR is <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/> “is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity.” The last university in Gaza has now been destroyed < https://www.thenational.scot/news/24059315.israel-destroys-last-university-g...
by the Israeli army, along with many schools. Students from these universities feel their loss keenly <https://wearenotnumbers.org/lament-for-the-universities/>, even while trying to stay alive through bombings and the denial of their basic human needs. Countless Palestinian academics <https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-refaat-alareer-killed-dec-9-2023/
and students < https://wearenotnumbers.org/tributes-to-mohammed-zaher-hamo-killed-nov-24-20...
have been killed, injured, and displaced <https://wearenotnumbers.org/i-have-left-all-my-books-behind/>. Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are not new < https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/impact_attackeducation_pa...
. Calls for protection <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192> have gone unheeded.
Because the digital technologies that many of us research are woven through this conflict. Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology < https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authoritie...
to entrench apartheid. The Israeli military is using an “AI” system to “generate targets” < https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-fi...
. Telecommunications systems are shut down < https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/israel-intensifies-gaza-bombardmen... , making it difficult for people in Gaza to communicate while under attack. Large tech companies have been providing key systems to the Israeli government <https://notechforapartheid.com/>.
Because Israeli citizens who protest < https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225651180/israel-tel-aviv-protest-gaza-war
the actions of their government (including on social media) face < https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-h...
jail < https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-crack-down-arab-cit...
and threats of violence <https://www.972mag.com/israeli-protest-gaza-war-repression/>, as do those who refuse to serve in the army < https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240115-israel-s-war-resisters-risk-j...
. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Internet_Researchers> 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.
Antisemitism is a real and significant problem in the world. However, the ongoing attempt to conflate all criticism of Israel with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest and dangerous <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/>. It also frequently glosses over the long history of Jewish < https://www.wrmea.org/2008-december/israel-and-judaism-the-long-and-largely-...
opposition <https://jacobin.com/2020/07/israel-palestine-anti-zionism-history-left> to the formation of Israel. Organisations like the ADL put forward claims that groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic *because* they are anti-Zionist. Similarly, Canary Mission lists university students, professors, and organisations that criticise the Israeli state alongside neo-nazi organisations like the “Daily Stormer”, conflating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with violent antisemitism.
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 < https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/jewish-palestinian-protest-israel-gaza...
Jewish < https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jewish-group-protests-eight-cities-gaza-...
people < https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-was...
. We should not allow them to claim that they do.
We also must be aware that organisations like Canary Mission work hard to impose < https://truthout.org/articles/advocacy-for-palestinians-has-been-outright-cr...
a high < https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/doxxing-students-palestine-feat...
cost < https://www.cuindependent.com/2023/11/05/ethnic-studies-pro-palestine-statem...
on students and teachers within universities who do speak up. A variety of governments have also worked to ban the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws>. There are therefore real material consequences for speaking against the actions of the Israeli state. Perhaps that is enough that we do not want to put AoIR as an organisation, or fellow academics within AoIR, in a difficult position.
But if that’s the case, let’s at least acknowledge it. Let’s make it visible. Let us be aware that our organisation, and its commitments to values like diversity and inclusion <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, are constrained and limited. That our interest in hearing from those who are currently at the margins of our academic spaces (as set out in the ‘revolutions’ CfP <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023cfp/>) does not, perhaps, extend as far as some of us might hope.
With love, solidarity, and significant trepidation,
sky. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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