“As a professor and scholar, I value education, teaching, and the preservation of archives and institutions of learning. This is why I support the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza. I hope you do too!”

– Margaret Power,
Illinois Institute of Technology

“My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor who taught me that to remain silent in the face of genocide is to become complicit. I want to be part of a profession that will not remain silent.”

– Samantha Payne,
College of Charleston

“I support the resolution because the assault on Gaza has destroyed schools at all levels, as well as archives and memories, threatening to obliterate an entire culture. Access to education is understood legally as integral to academic freedom, and historical memory is fundamental to human flourishing. We must defend them.”

– Gabriel Winant,
University of Chicago

“The destruction of Gaza’s universities, libraries, schools, and staff—the whole of its educational system—cannot go unnoticed and unanswered. We must respond. I call upon the AHA and its membership to publicly condemn this destruction and support the resolution.”

– Deborah Cohen,
University of Missouri-St. Louis

“There are times when we as historians must speak out, and when our government is funding scholasticide, this is that time.”

–Van Gosse,
Franklin & Marshall College

“Why remember the Holocaust—why tell histories of the Holocaust—if doing so does not prod us to recognize and act against a genocide unfolding in real time in our own world? And how can we as educators credibly say that we value teaching and learning, and yet refrain from condemning the wholesale destruction of educational institutions—of schools—as part of an ongoing genocide? Can we allow the compulsory Zionism of mainstream US society to silence the AHA in the face of genocide and still have a learned society worthy of respect after this vote? The responsibility of intellectuals is to tell the truth and expose lies. Of course, I support the HPD resolution condemning the Israeli state scholasticide in Gaza.”

–Daniel Segal,
Pitzer Colleges of the Claremont Colleges

“As a professor of Jewish history and Holocaust studies, I unequivocally condemn Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s universities and other educational institutions, which have suffered previously unimaginable levels of damage amid the ongoing genocide. Upholding the right to learn is essential; “Never again” must guide us to protect knowledge, dignity, and humanity everywhere. It is the obligation of the AHA to resist the scholasticide underway in Palestine.”

– Barry Trachtenberg,
Wake Forest University

“As a specialist in Holocaust & genocide studies and director of our genocide center, I firmly oppose Israel’s targeting of educational institutions — in other words, Israel’s intentional “scholasticide” — a grievous example of cultural genocide in the midst of its larger genocide of the Gazan people since October 2023. I encourage all scholars, especially those in my field, to take a stand on this crucial issue.”

– John Cox,
UNC Charlotte

“As a historian of the Holocaust, I unequivocally condemn Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s universities and other educational institutions. “Never again” must guide us to protect knowledge, dignity, and humanity everywhere, and to respect international law as it exists in the 1948 genocide convention and elsewhere. The AHA must condemn the intentional targeting and destruction of universities, schools, and archives.”

– Laurie Marhoefer,
University of Washington

“As teachers and scholars and engaged citizens we historians can and should disagree about nearly everything, but surely we must come together to condemn the intentional targeting and destruction of universities, schools, and archives.”

–Angela Zimmerman,
George Washington University

“‘Never again’ is now. It is our basic duty as responsible historians to condemn genocide and scholasticide in Palestine. Please join me in supporting this important resolution.”

–Yesenia Barragan,
Rutgers University

“The wanton destruction of Gaza’s educational infrastructure should be condemned by all historians who profess a commitment to academic freedom. I support this resolution because the annihilation of entire families and their cultural institutions is an assault on historical memory and human freedom.”

–Joel Suarez,
Harvard University

“The deliberate targeting and destruction of universities, hospitals, schools, archives, and museums is a moral enormity and a violation of international law. I hope others will join me in supporting this resolution.”

–Walter Johnson,
Harvard University

“The IDF has killed more than 44 thousand Palestinians in Gaza. 70% of the dead are women and children. Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid have brought starvation to the place. According to the UN World Food Program, 1.1 million people there are living under severe hunger. This is genocide. The AHA cannot remain silent.”

– Sidney Chalhoub,
Harvard University

“I support this resolution in support of Palestinian historians and historians of Palestine, including those who have lost their lives and livelihoods as a result of a genocide we are responsible for opposing, as an American scholarly association.”

– Stacy D. Fahrenthold,
University of California, Davis

“Israel has systematically destroyed Gaza’s institutions of higher education and killed many hundreds of their students, faculty, researchers, librarians, archivists, deans and presidents. As scholars and teachers, we have both a moral and a professional obligation to denounce this enormity.”

– Zachary Lockman,
New York University

“I support the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza because I am appalled by the senseless destruction of Palestine’s immense cultural and intellectual heritage alongside countless Palestinian lives. It is our duty as scholars to speak out against genocide and to oppose the epistemicide of the Palestinian people of Gaza.”

–Rebecca Ruth Gould,
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

“When teaching the history of the Holocaust, I explain to my students that indifference and complacency were silent enablers of hatred and genocide. We cannot remain indifferent to the deliberate destruction of schools, universities, and libraries in Gaza today.”

– Mona Siegel,
California State University, Sacramento

“The violence waged by the IDF across Gaza, aided by the US, is an unspeakable, world-historical atrocity. The least that we historians can do is keep an honest account of the war crimes. The attempt to erase this history, and the history of the Palestinian people, should outrage us all.”

– Andy Liu,
Villanova University

“Israeli attacks have decimated the intellectual leadership in Gaza – three university presidents, 9 university and college deans, and over 100 other faculty have been killed to date. Our surviving colleagues are in exile or still huddled in tents under Israeli bombardment. We must not look away.”

– Judith E. Tucker,
Georgetown University

“As an organization that provides leadership for our discipline and promotes historical work and historical thinking in public life, the AHA has a unique ability to support the rebuilding of Gaza’s archival and educational infrastructure. I support this resolution because I believe in the mission of the AHA.”

– Andrea Stanton,
University of Denver

“Israel is bombing Palestinian schools and killing children on the pretext that schools are either sheltering terrorists or producing them. This genocide means that lives, histories, and homes are being eradicated before our eyes. Let’s take a stand against it before it becomes something we study in textbooks.”

– Taymiya R. Zaman,
University of San Francisco

“In recent years the AHA has stood at the forefront of scholarly associations in defending the right of American students to learn. Now it’s time to make good on that commitment by defending the rights of Palestinian children as well, in whose destruction so many US academic institutions have been complicit.”

– Greg Afinogenov,
Georgetown University

“As historians, we can and must take a strong stance against attacks on schools and universities, our own and others. As people living in the United States, we must speak out about the attacks on education–and life itself–in Gaza, which are funded by the US.”

– Melani McAlister,
George Washington University

“To my former colleagues at the AHR: decolonizing the past is one thing; it’s always harder to decolonize the present. Please show that you know how to do it.”

– Farid Azfar,
Swarthmore College

“As a Black feminist historian of slavery, empire, and epidemic disease in the early modern Atlantic World, I am familiar with the history of genocidal warfare and its attendant consequences. What we are witnessing is no less than a genocide, with scholasticidal consequences and myriad other horrors that will harm generations. Please join me in supporting this resolution.”

– Elise A. Mitchell,
Swarthmore College

“Israeli bombardment has damaged or destroyed over 85% of K-12 schools in Gaza and destroyed all 12 universities as well as libraries, archives, and museums. Israeli attacks have killed university presidents, deans, and hundreds of teachers, professors, and students and wounded thousands more. It is a moral and professional obligation to speak out against these assaults on education.”

– Joel Beinin,
Stanford University

“I support the AHA Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza.
I condemn Israel’s campaign of destruction of Palestinian life and learning and
Washington’s financial and political support that enables it.”

– Irene Gendzier,
independent scholar

“Israel’s apologists claim that one cannot be both Jewish and anti-Zionist, as if Israel is exempt from international law and the human rights standards that apply to all other states, including our own. As a Jewish historian, I say that is antisemitism– and reject all forms of antisemitism!”

– Howard Swerdloff,
Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

“The AHA frequently takes stances on matters germane to the historical profession and education at large. The destruction of Gaza’s educational infrastructure meets that criterion. We have an obligation to oppose this assault on culture and knowledge—a loss to all of humanity.”

– Jacqueline Allain,
Independent Scholar

“This resolution is a minimum-level acknowledgement that schools and universities are vital for the global good. The systematic destruction in Palestine of such sites – scholasticide — by the Israeli military should be condemned and that condemnation should not be controversial for historians and professors in the United States or anywhere.”

– Rebecca E. Karl,
New York University

“The destruction of cultural and academic institutions in Gaza is an assault on the collective memory and historical consciousness of the Palestinian people. Historians everywhere—especially those of us in the United States, which supplies many of weapons used in this destruction—have a duty to oppose this scholasticide.”

– Sam Klug,
Loyola University Maryland

“The relentless destruction of Gaza’s schools, universities, libraries and other cultural institutions; the disruption of education at all levels; and the murder of hundreds of blameless personnel and students is a crime that all thinking people must deplore. As a longtime member, I call upon the AHA to condemn scholasticide and genocide in Gaza, and US funding and support for it, at the 2025 annual meeting.”

–Laura Tabili,
University of Arizona

“I support the AHA resolution denouncing Israel’s scholasticide in Gaza because if my country’s historic sites, universities, schools, libraries – and the lives and bodies and homes of those who work and study in those institutions – were being destroyed, I would hope historians’ professional organizations around the world would denounce it.”

– Jacob Remes,
New York University

“As members of the American Historical Association which pledges a commitment to academic freedom and international collaboration, we have a moral and professional obligation to speak out against the ongoing genocidal destruction of life, culture, history, and memory in Palestine backed and funded by the United States. Please join us in supporting the AHA’s Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza!”

– Tina Shull,
UNC Charlotte

“The promotion of historical studies through the encouragement of research, teaching, and publication; the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts; the dissemination of historical records and information; the broadening of historical knowledge among the general public; and the pursuit of kindred activities in the interest of history. We have a duty to promote these conditions everywhere and to oppose scholasticide in Palestine.”

– Merve Fejzula,
University of Missouri 

“Historians must speak out as we bear witness to the relentless bombardment and siege of Gaza; the evisceration of Palestinian life worlds and the wide scale destruction of institutions of learning and creativity; the bombing of places of worship and places of healing; and the catastrophic scale of death and dismemberment.”

– Omnia El Shakry,
Yale University

“It is incumbent on us as scholars to defend the academic enterprise and to denounce any and all efforts to destroy it.  The Israeli destruction of Palestinian educational institutions — with U.S. funding and weapons — is unconscionable and abhorrent.  Calling it out should not be controversial.”

– Scott Laderman,
University of Minnesota, Duluth

“Israel’s targeted assault on educational staff and institutions in Gaza and the West Bank is more than “collateral damage,” it is intended to halt the flow of indigenous knowledge, to rob Palestinians of a sense of peoplehood, and to deny them a future. As educators and scholars, AHA members must speak out.”

– Andrea Friedman,
Washington University