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Related: About this forum(JEWISH GROUP) What critics miss when they accuse Israel of 'scholasticide' and 'domicide'
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The American Historical Association, the largest association of professional historians in the U.S., passed a resolution this week condemning what it called the scholasticide in Gaza a term that might be unfamiliar to many.
As The New York Times reported, the resolution argued that the destruction of most of the enclaves education infrastructure, along with many archives and libraries, amounted to scholasticide.
Scholasticide isnt a word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, or the Oxford English Dictionary, but it does appear in Wikipedia, which is run by volunteers and has nearly 50 million registered users.
Scholasticide, according to Wikipedia, is often used interchangeably with the terms educide and epistemicide, (and) refers to the intended mass destruction of education in a specific place.
Schola in Latin is school, or more precisely, an ancient Roman school as Merriam-Webster puts it. Cide is also Latin; it means killing.
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(JEWISH GROUP) What critics miss when they accuse Israel of 'scholasticide' and 'domicide' (Original Post)
Behind the Aegis
Jan 2025
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madaboutharry
(42,031 posts)1. "I'm shocked -- shocked -- to find that gambling is going on in here!"
Ill admit it is a bit disheartening to learn that historians are ignorant of facts and .history.
Mosby
(19,335 posts)2. Apparently there is a bit of a war going on at wikipedia
A lot of articles about the ip conflict and the Gaza war are being added despite an extreme and obvious bias against Israel and Judaism in general.
