update:
Historians’ Council Vetoes Gaza Scholasticide Condemnation
American Historical Association convention-goers overwhelmingly passed the statement on Jan. 5, but the group’s top elected body has vetoed it without letting all AHA members vote.
I guess there might be similar outcomes in other fields, too.
Historians Condemn ‘Scholasticide’ in Gaza at Conference
The measure now goes to the group’s elected council for approval, disapproval or a vote of the organization’s 10,000-plus full membership.
American Historical Association members attending the group’s annual conference voted 428 to 88 Sunday to approve a resolution opposing “scholasticide” in Gaza and the U.S. government’s funding of Israel’s war.
The move makes the American Historical Association the latest scholarly group to express a stance on the war in Gaza—despite conservative criticism, reaching all the way up to the president-elect, of pro-Palestinian advocacy in academe.
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