cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/13896072
Geneva - The Israeli army has killed 94 university professors, along with hundreds of teachers and thousands of students, as part of its genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued on Saturday
According to Euro-Med Monitor, the Israeli army has targeted academic, scientific, and intellectual figures in the Strip in deliberate and specific air raids on their homes without prior notice. Those targeted have been crushed to death beneath the rubble, along with members of their families and other displaced families.
If you want to ensure your enemy never learns that there’s a better way, you kill all the educated and academics. That leaves only the religious fanatics and corrupt politicians.
Obligatory reminder that when nazi Germany did this in occupied Poland, this in itself was called in terms which were later codified as genocide.
Not just destroying the present, but destroying their future.
There was never a real future with Hamas in power.
Said this about Viet Cong too? They attacked villages, took hostages, and used tunnels and guerilla warfare just the same. These are simply the most effective tactics for driving out an occupying force, and they wouldn’t be necessary if the colony wasn’t there in the first place.
If anything they’ve done a far better job at avoiding killing children than Israel even with inferior gear. The final death toll from the Oct 7 attack is now thought to be 695 Israeli “civilians” (mostly unarmed IDF conscripts), 373 armed IDF militants, 71 foreigners and 36 children. While Israel has killed 22,000 Palestinians, 2/3 of whom are women and children.
Jesus Fuck
Why does this article refer to its own newspaper in the third person?
You mean parts like this?
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued on Saturday
According to Euro-Med Monitor
Many newspapers does this, apparently it’s a old journalist standard being taught in their schools to avoid writing in first person unless they are writing opinion, to keep impersonal presentation image and differentiate (most likely for legal reasons) between personal stance and the one of entire newspaper - that is, when they write like that, is more official.
If from 25k dead only 17 of those are professors, it seems like a really weird claim that Israel would be deliberately targeting them…
Ahhh yes, they must have accidentally destroyed every university. Oopsies, right?
/s
But the tunnels!! /s
I think they’re busy destroying every large building in Gaza tbh
But there’s like 30% of all buildings destroyed according to some sources, and Al Jazeera is adding the nuance that all the universities are either ‘damaged or destroyed’. Which would certainly suggest that the statement that they are all destroyed is at least somewhat exagerrated.
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Those targeted include 17 individuals who held professor degrees, 59 who held doctoral degrees, and 18 who held master’s degrees, the rights group stated.
University professor can be used for any university teacher, while a professor degree is a specific title. I’ve been taught by teachers with professor titles, doctorates, and masters. They are all teachers.
See my reply above with a napkin calculation - without knowing how many there are, how does one conclude they’re being targeted? The numbers are so low (sorry for the cynicism) one could argue Bibi is trying to wipe out all the window washers or something.
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Imagine you’re an IDF planner and Bibi personally tasks you to use the cover of the coming campaign to take out the Palestinian academia. Three months in, you’re called in to report on your progress. Do you think he’s going to be impressed that, on top of the statistical average, you’ve managed to kill 0,34% of them?
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“targeted”
Your own source uses the very terminology you’re refuting.
My own source?
Yes dear, the one you quoted.
Well dear (how old are you?), it’s from the article in the OP we’re all discussing
You claimed it was incorrect to use the term targeted. You then used the term in your proof of why it wasn’t targeted.
I’m 30, whats your mother’s maiden name?
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