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-11 posts tagged "Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
Letter to the Editor | Monday, November 20, 2023
In “Why Did Israel Kill My Son?” Palestinian poet and journalist Ahmed Abu Artema recounts surviving a bombing in southern Gaza on Oct. 24. Among ruins of their collapsed house, he saw his son and daughter screaming and pointing to their injured sibling Abboud, 12, who’d later die in intensive care. Abu Artema’s two aunts
Letter to the Editor | Monday, November 20, 2023
Among the charges leveled against Israel in these tragic days is that of its genocide of the Palestinian people. Unlike other such words or phrases heard at present protests, this one has a technical and legal definition, as well as a clear origin. The Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1943 or 1944
BridgeND and Nelisha Silva | Wednesday, November 1, 2023
In the context of the extremely violent past century in the Middle East, the conflict between Israel and Palestine has taken a central place in the American public’s mind. Given the level of vitriol surrounding the recent events in the region, it’s important to develop a framework to clearly evaluate the situation and not quickly
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 30, 2023
Most of us are probably familiar with the running TV segment aired during Notre Dame football games highlighting the pioneering achievements of our student body, faculty and alumni. Right now, I call Notre Dame to harness its collective energy and resources to rally around advocating for a lasting peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Two
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 30, 2023
As a Notre Dame alumni, I was saddened to see Father Jenkins issue a statement that the University “stand[s] with Israel.” Israel is currently carrying out a genocide on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and to see my beloved alma mater allying itself with perpetrators of ethnic cleansing is deeply dismaying. I am
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 30, 2023
We are alumni, students, staff, faculty and friends of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. As students and advocates of peacebuilding, we are holding space for the many people hurting and grieving over the ongoing loss of life in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. We recognize the humanity of all peoples of the
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 30, 2023
The deadly unprovoked cross-border attack on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7 is just one of several attempts by the terrorist organization that rules Gaza to sabotage the hopes for peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. A look at the bloody history of Hamas, which is backed by Iran, is the key to understanding
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 30, 2023
To the Office of Community Standards, We, the undersigned members of the University of Notre Dame community, write to express our deep concern and outrage regarding a disturbing incident that occurred on Thursday, October 12, at approximately 2:15 p.m. within the premises of the Hesburgh Center. We believe that the actions of a student, here
Olemo Gordon Brian | Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Dear comrade, When engaging with American media, one ought to proceed with caution. If one is not pre-armed with the correct ideological tools to make sense of a situation as well as knowledge of its prior development and context (historical, geo-political, etc.), media (TV, radio, print, now social media) can be thoroughly misleading, even dangerous.
Letter to the Editor and Nelisha Silva | Monday, May 10, 2021
Palestinians appear nowhere in the “working definition” of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). This is the main problem with this definition, which Blake Ziegler marshalled, in his recent piece for The Observer. There, Mr. Ziegler defends the equation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism. Parenthetically, according to a report from Oxford University, Mr. Ziegler is not