Mathematicians denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/12/18/an-open-letter-from-mathematicians-against-the-genocide-in-gaza
More than 1,000 mathematicians have signed an open letter calling on their colleagues to “cease all scientific collaboration with Israeli institutions that do not explicitly condemn the genocide in Gaza and the illegal colonisation of Palestine”.
“Scientists, particularly mathematicians, cannot remain indifferent to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, especially as Western powers appear to support this crime against humanity politically, diplomatically, and militarily,” they wrote.
A damaged gate of Al-Aqsa University, which was destroyed during Israel’s military offensive on April 14
Luckily, I am not dead. Yet. But am I alive?
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/12/19/i-am-stuck-in-a-box-like-schrodingers-in-gaza
Like Schrodinger’s famous cat, I am trapped in a box. I have been stuck in this box since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on my homeland, Gaza.
So many people know I am inside it, but none can tell if I am alive or dead.
Everything in life seems to follow a certain binary system, from electrons, which spin in one direction or the other, to human beings, which can be either alive or dead. Still, this does not seem to apply to me, because whether I’m living or dead at any given moment is unknown. I am no longer part of this binary of life and being, it seems. So, what am I?
Palestinian houses stand badly damaged during the ongoing Israeli military operation, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 18
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