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The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW): Standing up for academic freedoms for all scholars.

Posted on | The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW)

As a research institute we choose not to issue general political statements, although we obviously condemn all violence against civilians. We are specifically concerned with situations in which academic freedoms are under threat, including those that have followed upon the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th and the Israeli war in Gaza, in particular the scholasticide or total devastation of the academic infrastructure in Gaza.

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The Palestinian challenge to US medical ethics

Posted on | Eric Reinhar | Joelle M Abi-Rached | The Lancet

For the past 7 months, the world has been witnessing the murder of health workers, as well as their abduction, torture, execution, and the dumping of their bodies in mass graves; killing of patients in their hospital beds; deliberate bombing of hospitals and clinics; targeted destruction of health and sanitation infrastructure; blockades to humanitarian aid and essential medications during a historic famine manufactured to serve as a weapon of war; and the infliction of conditions designed to be incompatible with life on Palestinians in Gaza.