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
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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
Revisited: Genocide in Gaza/الإبادة الجماعية في غزة/רצח עם בעזה
Click on this image to view my video slideshow set to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. Elchanan Poupko is a self-described New England-based eleventh-generation rabbi, teacher, and author. Poupko has nearly 29,000 followers on LinkedIn. Below is a recent LinkedIn post followed by some comments. These screenshots are from a 27.10.24 LinkedIn post I knew … Continue reading Revisited: Genocide in Gaza/الإبادة الجماعية في غزة/רצח עם בעזה
I Had a Dream: From Vietnam to Gaza
Click on the image for a video slideshow I created set to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. And now a word from my conscience and a clarion call from my moral compass... My latest for CounterPunch. Here's how I kick off this 3000+-word essay. Israel has reached an unimaginable peak of evil. And indeed many … Continue reading I Had a Dream: From Vietnam to Gaza
Rhetorical Checkmate
Source: Wikipedia LinkedIn is becoming like Facebook except I reserve non-business posts and comments for truly serious and literally existential issues like the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. You can start with my comment followed by Johanna's indignant response, and my response to her response. Crickets after the latter. Like many, you'll notice she trots … Continue reading Rhetorical Checkmate
Bystanders No More.
Helping people speak up about human rights in Palestine. Screenshot Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing? -Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926-2022) To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors. -Marek Edelman (1919/1922-2009) – last surviving leader, Warsaw ghetto uprising I love this … Continue reading Bystanders No More.
I Stand With…
the exploited, weak, oppressed, and victims of state-sponsored violence, including genocide, NOT the oppressors, exploiters, and murderers. It's really that simple. That black and white. There are no gray areas. There is no moral equivalence here. What Hamas did last October was barbaric but the 2.1 million people living in Gaza are not Hamas. The … Continue reading I Stand With…
Guest Post: “Erasing Palestine”
This is a guest post by Mike Hastie, a veteran of the US war in Vietnam whose tagline is "I was born in America, but my heart is Vietnamese." Erasing Human Rights Erasing Human Beings Erasing Hospitals Erasing Medical Supplies Erasing Oxygen Erasing Doctors and Nurses Erasing Ambulances Erasing Food and Water Erasing Electricity Erasing … Continue reading Guest Post: “Erasing Palestine”
International Education’s Deafening “Culture of Silence”
Below is the first part of my latest essay for University World News. The editor's title is International educators need to end their silence on Gaza. Follow this link to read it in its entirety. Jainendra Jeevan, The Kathmandu Post There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price … Continue reading International Education’s Deafening “Culture of Silence”
An International Educator in Vietnam 
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