(JEWISH GROUP) What critics miss when they accuse Israel of 'scholasticide' and 'domicide'

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The American Historical Association, the largest association of professional historians in the U.S., passed a resolution this week condemning what it called the “scholasticide” in Gaza — a term that might be unfamiliar to many.

As The New York Times reported, the resolution “argued that the destruction of most of the enclave’s education infrastructure, along with many archives and libraries, amounted to “scholasticide.”

“Scholasticide” isn’t a word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, or the Oxford English Dictionary, but it does appear in Wikipedia, which is run by volunteers and has nearly 50 million registered users.

“Scholasticide,” according to Wikipedia, is “often used interchangeably with the terms educide and epistemicide, (and) refers to the intended mass destruction of education in a specific place.”

“Schola” in Latin is “school,” or more precisely, an “ancient Roman school” as Merriam-Webster puts it. “Cide” is also Latin; it means killing.

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