We are academics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We bear the responsibility of knowledge, critical thinking, and ethical consistency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, our stance against violence cannot change according to identity, geography, or power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We unequivocally and unconditionally condemn the attack targeting the Jewish community in Australia.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Antisemitism, with its historical weight and current manifestations, is a hate crime against human dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It cannot be justified, regardless of where or by whom it is committed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, academic conscience requires us to look not only at individual incidents but also at the ongoing structural violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, Israel’s genocidal policies in Palestine have transformed into a process of destruction where civilians are systematically targeted,<\/p>\n\n\n\n living spaces are destroyed, knowledge, education, and academic existence are made impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stating this truth is not antisemitism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the contrary, it is about standing against approaches that instrumentalize the moral power of antisemitism to cover up state violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Academic solidarity is not about selective empathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is not about ignoring the suffering of the powerless and remaining silent in the face of the powerful. It is certainly not about remaining silent by saying, “It’s wrong, but now is not the time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n We know that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hate crimes must be condemned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Genocide and policies of mass punishment must be stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Academics, students, and intellectual life cannot be targeted in any geographical area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Silence is not neutrality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Silence is often taking a stand alongside the existing injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, as Academic Solidarity, we declare:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are against all forms of antisemitism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are against all forms of racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And we are against systematic, persistent, and destructive violence perpetrated by states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our solidarity is based not on identities, but on human dignity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are academics. We bear the responsibility of knowledge, critical thinking, and ethical consistency. Therefore, our stance against violence cannot change according to identity, geography, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/academicsolidarity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251220AntisemitizmPalestine.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4581,"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/4581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicsolidarity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}