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Ashley Gardini

On April 17, 2024, the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians voted in favor of endorsing the Middle East Studies Association statement regarding the ongoing genocidal violence against the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage in Gaza. (1/2)

April 17, 2024. SAH Endorses the MESA Board Joint Statement with CAF regarding the ongoing genocidal violence against the Palestininan people and their cultural heritage in Gaza
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Board of Directors endorses the statement by the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF), which condemns in the strongest possible terms the ongoing attack on Gaza by the state of Israel and the wanton destruction of the built environment and civilian infrastructure of the Gaza Strip (March 11, 2024).
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Ashley Gardini

While we wait for a public announcement of this important vote, we have decided to announce it directly. You can find the MESA statement here: bit.ly/MESA-CAF (2/2)

MESA Statement, March 11, 2024. Endorsed by SAH Board of Directors on April 17, 2024. “The Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association and its Committee on Academic Freedom condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing attack on Gaza by the state of Israel, which has now claimed more than 100,000 Palestinian dead and wounded according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. We have previously written statements on the conflict since 7 October 2023, including the horrors inflicted on civilians and the educational sector in Gaza (21 November 2023, 25 January 2024) the West Bank (22 November 2023), Jerusalem (9 November 2023) and Israel (20 November 2023, 28 November 2023, 23 January 2024).”
“We feel compelled to write once more to address not only the accelerating scale of genocidal violence being inflicted on the Palestinian population of Gaza, but also the concomitant cultural genocide that is the result of the wanton destruction of the built environment and civilian infrastructure of the Gaza Strip. The horrific human toll of the massive military assault on Gaza, now having surpassed its 155th day, has proceeded hand in glove with the deliberate destruction of the historical landscape of the territory. The very notion of a Palestinian people is itself under attack through Israel’s policy of destroying Gaza’s archaeological, religious, and cultural heritage.”
“As a scholarly community, we are aghast first and foremost at the unfathomable and indiscriminate violence threatening the lives of 2.3 million people. Alongside the magnitude of the atrocities committed against the Palestinian population, we must also bear witness to the decimation of thousands of years of historical material culture that constitute a part of our shared world heritage. […]” MESA Statement, March 11, 2024. Endorsed by SAH Board of Directors on April 17, 2024. Read the full statement here: https://bit.ly/MESA-CAF
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