I can't wrap my heart, mind, and soul around the depressing and infuriating fact that so many international education colleagues have remained silent about the ongoing Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Where is their empathy, compassion, and oft-stated commitment to global citizenship? Where is their humanity? As I stated in a recent article, … Continue reading An Urgent Appeal to International Education Colleagues
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In Loving Memory of Chef Mahmoud, RIP
I found out on LinkedIn that Mahmoud Almadhoun, brother of Hani Almadhoun, a LI contact who is the Senior Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, was targeted and murdered by the IDF. As Hani mentioned in the second post, "Mahmoud leaves behind seven children—the youngest only two weeks old, and the oldest still in the … Continue reading In Loving Memory of Chef Mahmoud, RIP
A Doctor’s Testimony: The Reality of Gaza’s Suffering by Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan
I urge you to set aside 20 minutes and watch this video testimony by Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). She shared a harrowing account of her experiences working in Gaza, where she bore witness to the devastating humanitarian crisis. She described the systematic targeting of … Continue reading A Doctor’s Testimony: The Reality of Gaza’s Suffering by Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan
Palestinian Representative’s Extraordinary Response to US Ceasefire Veto
Since I couldn't find it anywhere online, I created a transcript of this impassioned speech by Majed Bamya, the deputy permanent observer of the State of Palestine to the UN, at the UN Security Council after the US blocked another ceasefire resolution. (Thanks to TurboScribe.) I strongly encourage you to set aside 15 minutes and … Continue reading Palestinian Representative’s Extraordinary Response to US Ceasefire Veto
The Israeli (read Zionist) Propaganda Framework
Click on the image to view this 70-minute documentary produced by ARTE tv with subtitles in English. Available until 21.4.25. This is from a 13 November 2024 Tweet by Craig Mokhiber, an American former United Nations (UN) human rights official and a specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October 28, 2023, … Continue reading The Israeli (read Zionist) Propaganda Framework
Amos Goldberg on Genocide in Gaza
Yes, it is genocide. Although it is so difficult and painful to admit this and despite all efforts to think otherwise, at the end of six months of a brutal war it is no longer possible to escape this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained with the mark of Cain of the 'crime of … Continue reading Amos Goldberg on Genocide in Gaza
International Education Week 2024: All Eyes on the Genocide in Gaza
In my dreams. The depressing and infuriating reality is that it will remain the imposing and bloodstained elephant in the room for most colleagues who call themselves international educators and the organizations representing them and their institutions. Shame on them. Silence is complicity. Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in … Continue reading International Education Week 2024: All Eyes on the Genocide in Gaza
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Speaks to Us Today & Always
Source: Wikimedia Commons This is one of my favorite quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche), whose writings I discovered in English and the original German when I was a university student. Bonhoeffer was arrested in April 1943 by the … Continue reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Speaks to Us Today & Always
The glaring hypocrisy of establishment US international education
Click on the image to view the video slideshow I created. Think of this as my contribution to International Education Week (IEW) 2024, which is next week. Here's the introduction. Follow this link to read the entire essay. The day after the US presidential election, Fanta Aw, executive director and CEO of NAFSA, posted the following … Continue reading The glaring hypocrisy of establishment US international education
“Remember” by Áine Hayden
Photo by MAA taken in Brussels earlier this year. Memo to any Zionists (and Mossad agents) who may be in town for a soccer match or whatever. Note that the flag and banners are too high to tear down. REMEMBER how they bombed the upturned fishing boats on the beach.Fishermen’s boats, not threatening anyone, but … Continue reading “Remember” by Áine Hayden
An International Educator in Vietnam 
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