The War on Education—in Gaza and at Home

On January 17, after having first occupied it as a military base and interrogation center, the Israeli army employed scores of landmines to blow up Israa University, the last institution of higher learning then left standing in Gaza. While the terms ​“scholasticide,” ​“educide” and ​“epistemicide” have long been used to describe the assault on Palestinian intellectual life and infrastructure, they have become [...]