Talia Fried

Mom. Scholar. Brookline native. Research: STS, waste studies, anthropology of neurodivergence & mental health

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על מוזיקה, סולידריות והשתקה תרבותית. מקרה חמור של פגיעה בחופש הביטוי של סטודנטים באוניברסיטת תל-אביב. ארוע מוזיקלי שתוכנן על ידי תא הסטודנטים של חד"ש ואושר על ידי האוניברסיטה בוטל על ידה ברגע האחרון בתואנה שחלק מהכנסותיו יועדו לתרומה לקמפיין 'חשוב על עזה' (فكر بغزة),>>

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Important post by one of the most significant orgs in Israel-Palestine academia today. Pls read.

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What is the role of a university? Around the world, universities advance research, innovation, critical thinking, and humanism. But in Israel, Tel Aviv University has become a hub for marketing tactical warfare systems. What does it look like, and why is it so dangerous? 🧵
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תקשיבו לתובל קליין, בהפגנה נגד "חוק ההשתקה" באונ' ת"א, 10/12/2024. תובל היא חברת ועד בארגון סגל ההוראה והמחקר, פעילה במאבק סוציאליסטי וחברת א"ש.
Please listen to Tuvaal Klein, whose brilliant speech at the demo at @TelAvivUni against the “Silence Law” pulls together so many >>

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“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

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Proud of students and faculty @TelAvivUni who sat in silent protest this morning against the war, and to mark the int’l day to eliminate violence against women. Political speech on campus is a precious right. May we continue to cultivate and protect it.

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@BenzionSanders Genius

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@idanlandau 🖤

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@boonydotan @roeylevi80 👑

[EPE: Nature and Space @envplane]

OnlineFirst - "The waste of nations: Household trash and the affective politics of recycling in Israel" by @TaliaFried:

@bengurionu #waste #recycling #composting #subjectivity #IsraelPalestine

https://t.co/sV0RYWMOgu

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@DanKotliar This is genuinely impressive

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@PeterBeinart Exactly! Thank you.

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This is a stupid and heartless response. Why not acknowledge that what's happening in Gaza is horrifying, and say you want to beat Donald Trump so you can stop it.

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@sameralatout Yes, and: the hate that is nurtured is also turned on one's self. This reality is not only genocidal, but suicidal, in every sense of the word. 🖤

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הבוקר התעוררנו לקמפיין חוצות מסית נגד חברותינו ד״ר ענת מטר ופרופ׳ שלהוב-קיבורקיאן. הקמפיין ממומן על ידי התאחדות הסטודנטים.
השלטים, שנצפו הבוקר הן על איילון והן בכניסה לחיפה מנסים למסגר את שתיהן בצורה מאוד ספציפית, שבאקלים הציבורי והפוליטי הנוכחי מהווה הסתה אלימה.

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@nirhasson Israel’s descent into vigilante rule

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@AJEnglish The picture of courage and humanity

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@Ahmad_tibi קורע לב

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@democracynow By this logic, we would defund all of US public education because some pupils were school shooters. Beyond shameful.

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@TalMitnick Your courage and clarity are truly inspiring✊💕