Why AHA Members Support this Resolution:

“The AHA has an ethical obligation to uphold the right of all people to freely teach and learn about their past.”

– Pamela Murray

“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

“The resolution presents an opportunity for the AHA to be on the right side of history. Such gestures are necessary for that ‘long arc’ to bend in the right direction.”

– Lewis Siegelbaum

“The Geneva Convention (1949) contains provisions that specifically forbid intentional or gratuitous damage to undefended cultural heritage. This is why I support the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza. I hope you do as well!”

– Elizabeth Bishop

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

– Van Gosse