Academics and Students Who Are on the Right Side of History

This moment will be remembered. As it darkens, some will rationalize, some will look away. Others will speak—and pay the price. But only one side will be remembered as the right side of history.

Src: UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel.

“Aid has dried up and the floodgates of horror have re-opened. Gaza is a killing field, and civilians are in an endless death loop,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres declared in early April. A couple of days ago, he described the situation in starker terms: a humanitarian emergency “beyond imagination.”

A friend of mine tried to capture it: “Gaza looks like Mars.” Something otherworldly. As if it no longer belongs to human history or human making. But Gaza is on this earth—and it has been reduced to rubble. No food. No water. No air. No future.

Guterres went further: “I am alarmed by statements from Israeli officials suggesting aid is being used as leverage for military gain. Aid is not a bargaining chip. It is non-negotiable.”

He urged governments to move beyond hollow declarations and set out actual steps to revive the long-abandoned two-state framework. “This is not a time for box-ticking,” he said. “The clock is ticking—and time is running out.”

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