[Salon] Gaza Scholasticide and the American Historical Association

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https://www.juancole.com/2026/09/scholasticide-palestine-historians.html

Gaza Scholasticide and the American Historical Association

Juan Cole 09/10/2026

Academics For Peace on Instagram posted my video for Historians for Peace and Democracy, protesting the refusal of the Council of the American Historical Association to allow the membership to vote on resolutions condemning Israel’s scholasticide against the Palestinians of Gaza. Watch the video by clicking in the middle of the embed:

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Bluesky at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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