The beast-man culture of genocide must be deeply embedded in Israeli academia, if an Oct. 14 report in Middle East Eye is any indication. Uzy Raby, a senior lecturer at the department of Middle Eastern and African history at Tel Aviv University has unapologetically advocated the starvation of civilians in northern Gaza who do not follow the Israeli army’s order to evacuate south, MEE reports. “Anyone who stays there will be judged by law as a terrorist and will go through either a process of starvation or a process of extermination,” he said during a TV interview last month. Then, addressing a possible attack on Beirut, he reiterated the same rationale. “You have to inflict it [the war] on the population,” Raby said. In June, MEE further reports, Prof. Benny Morris, one of the leading scholars of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and member at the Middle East department at Ben-Gurion University, shockingly called for Israel to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
“Apart from urging for more potential war crimes and for the occupation of the Gaza Strip, these academics are additionally advancing a seemingly dehumanization campaign against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims,” MEE says.
Raby argues that the rules that apply to the West should not apply in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “When … you try to solve Middle Eastern problems in Western terms—you will fail,” he said. Last month Raby suggested that Israeli actions should be flavored with a special “Middle Eastern spice.”
The implementation of such views appears to be behind the savagery of the Israeli campaign in Gaza. The IDF attacked tents housing displaced people at Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza, creating a fire which killed four people and wounded scores of others, according to a separate report in MEE. Footage on social media showed tents ablaze and people desperately attempting to douse the fire and rescue people caught in it.
