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Reproductive Health Under Genocide: The Struggle of Palestinian Women in Gaza

Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza has triggered and escalated an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, deliberately inflicting life-threatening conditions on more than two million Palestinians, with particularly severe and far-reaching consequences on Palestinian women. Nothing, nowhere, and no one has been spared from Israel’s relentless genocidal military campaign unleashed on Gaza and its people.

The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine

A chasm has formed between Holocaust scholars concerning Israel/Palestine, deepening immeasurably since 7 October 2023. Unlike previous controversies in the field, the divide is not just historical or methodological; it revolves around academics’ role in the world today, particularly the public stand they choose to take on Palestine/Israel and Zionism. Two main camps have formed. Put reductively, one camp defends Israel, while the other defends Palestinians, although differences between individual scholars within each camp make for more of a spectrum than a clear-cut divide. How, despite a diversity of ideas and foci within each camp, did two academic-political antipodes solidify over several decades, and how have 7 October and the ensuing war widened the rift between them?