Op-ed: On protesting the crisis in the Mideast
We write in a moment of urgency for the university and the world. Since the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 that took approximately 1,200 Israeli lives, an Israeli military campaign and unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe has been unfolding for Palestinians in Gaza. The scope of the documented displacement, destruction, death and injury is already horrific. The death toll currently stands over 17,000 Palestinians, among them children, teachers, professors, poets and journalists. Humanitarian organizations are calling urgently for intervention to forestall the likely spread of disease, the breakdown of social order and even famine. People of conscience everywhere are moved to act with urgency for Palestinian and Israeli lives today and tomorrow.