One teacher claimed that “history” was “screaming.”
Over the weekend, the American Historical Association chanted “free, completely Palestine” before passing a quality condemning Israel.
The Sunday voting, which has several more pieces to complete before being implemented, punishes “scholasticide” in Israel.
” History is screaming to the present”, University of California, Santa Barbara Professor Sherene Seikaly said, as reported by Inside Higher Ed. ” The AHA has been deafeningly silent. Solitude is complicity”.
Although the decision did not mention the start of the war when Hamas terrorists attacked innocent civilians in October, the resolution detailed the damage in” Gaza.” 7, 2023. That invasion has received praise from some academics.
The United States “has supplied Israel with the weapons being used to undertake this scholasticide”, according to the solution.
The decision further stated:
So, be it decided that the AHA, which supports the right of all cultures to openly teach and learn about their history, condemns the Jewish aggression in Gaza, which undermines that right.
If the AHA requests a continuous ceasefire to put an end to the scholasticide, be it more resolved.
According to Inside Higher Ed, the AHA agreement passed the quality 428 to 88. One opposition claimed that the resolution would merely bolster President Donald Trump’s condemnation of higher learning.
Transferring this quality as the AHA’s position on matters of history is “very likely to harm the traditional profession and academia writ large,” said New School Professor Natalie Petrzela.
” She said it would merely lend legitimacy to charges of political bias in university, and ‘ these attacks will only deepen with the coming]Trump ] management,'” Inside Higher Ed reported.
But another once-esteemed educational association descends into racist engagement – with the invented “scholasticide” slander against Israelhttps: //t. co/0E8fAX236E
— Jane Coleman ( @JaneBColeman ) January 6, 2025
The pro-Palestinian Council on American-Islamic Relations praised the ballot.
In a press release sent to The College Fix, the group claimed that the far-right Jewish government’s intention to systematically destroy the entire educational system in Gaza is a clear indication of scholasticide.
We applaud the American Historical Association’s decision to condemn Israel’s loss of Gaza’s education program, and we urge other organizations to adopt the same tenets as they do worldwide in protest of genocide.
Commentator Jane Coleman criticized the solution. ” But another once-esteemed educational association descends into racist engagement – with the invented’ scholasticide’ slander against Israel”, Coleman, with Legal Insurrection, wrote on X.
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