[Air-L] Does AIR (dare to ) make a motion mourning death academics in war conflicts?

[Nicholas John]

Dear Lucio and all,
There were over 100 posts on this topic over a four day period in January, at the end of which the Executive Committee and four past presidents did indeed make a statement mourning all innocent victims (http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2024-January/093525.html).
I set the mailing list to pre-moderation given that the discourse was deteriorating and that no new points were being contributed.
I am once more setting the list to pre-moderation.
Nik



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> On 21 Feb 2024, at 16:57, Lucio Mello via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear people (I still believe in the humanity of this group) of AIOR member
> and followers,
> 
> 
> I just read it: Professor Nasser Abu Al Nour, Dean of the Faculty of
> Nursing at the Islamic University of Gaza, was killed along with 7 members
> of his family in an attack on his home.
> 
> Just nothing I am aware that both sides of this conflict had their losses.
> 
> Are we ready to defend academic personnel beyond their nationality?
> 
> Can we make a public statement in the memoirs of those who lose their lives
> in this horror?
> 
> They can be Jewish, Palestinian, Arab, Semitic People, Catholic, Sumerian,
> Assyrian, Goyn, Ultra Right, Ultra Left, Marxist, Communist, Conservative,
> Ultra Orthodox....
> 
> You name it!
> 
> But can we (dare to) make a statement mourning all innocent deaths in wars?
> 
> Are we bold enough to raise our voices for peace and cease fire?
> 
> Are we human enough to state that internet and internet researchers are
> concerned about how internet is being used for conflict and hate speech
> (from both sides)?
> 
> Can we look beyond laboratories windows and propose that internet can be
> used for promoting peace and solidarity?
> 
> Because if we don't we can close AIOR tomorrow!
> 
> Let's stop pretending nothing is happening, please?
> 
> 
> PS:
> Thats my final statement. I am leaving. But hope you can discuss
> among yourselves.
> 
> Good bye to you all those academic carreirst hypocrites and selfish well
> living people.  (AIOR has a lot of good people but business are in the
> first place here, instead of scientific truth )
> 
> I wont condone it. Good luck in the next few years... you will need to
> explain your omission as internet researchers...
> 
> Now I know how Heiddeger became Dean in those horrific times.
> 
> Missing Susan Sontag and Hannah Arendt.
> 
> Get ready to being denounced as conivents Maybe not now but by the History,
> for sure.
> 
> In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of
> our friends.
> Martin Luther King <https://www.pensador.com/autor/martin_luther_king/>
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