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Thursday, November 07, 2024 — Houston, TX

Lauren Palmieri


NEWS 10/22/24 11:00pm

Scholasticide is a local issue

One year of genocide and scholasticide — the process of intentionally and systemically destroying education and knowledge — in Gaza has revealed Israel’s apparent imperialist mission of not just eradicating Gazan life, but also Palestinian pasts and futures. As we have the privilege of  learning in newly built classrooms and Rice celebrates the re-opening of the academic quad, no universities have been left unscathed in Gaza.