Scholasticide: Waging War on Education from Gaza to the West

This paper exposes the multifaceted brutality of Israel’s relentless war on Gaza, emphasizing not only the military violence but also the calculated structural, ideological, and political assault on dissent and education. It demonstrates how Israel's actions — indiscriminate bombings of civilians, including women and children, schools, and cultural institutions — are not merely condemned as war crimes but as acts of genocide by international bodies. The deliberate destruction of Gaza’s educational and cultural infrastructure is part of a broader effort to annihilate Palestinian history and identity, a process defined as ‘scholasticide’ The paper also reveals the global reach of this conflict, as academic freedom and critical inquiry are increasingly repressed, particularly in the United States, echoing a larger trend of intellectual and cultural erasure. It issues an urgent call for global resistance against this systematic obliteration of education, memory, and freedom.