Alaa Aldoh

This is what ethnic cleansing looks like

10 mins after this meeting ended, Israel bombed an ambulance convoy outside a hospital.

“We are Jewish writers, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic.” New: an open letter. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

I have no doubt that you have good intentions but this feels like a post-hoc rationalization of a decision almost entirely dictated by non-rational factors. A year ago, the same EASP EC announced that "The Executive Committee of EASP fully supports the sovereign rights of the people of Ukraine and fully condemns the Russian attack on their country." How is this not political? Or did the EC get mandate to talk about this war in particular but not the others? If EASP had a change of policy in the very recent months (which obviously didn't happen), then should it declare that EASP EC does not stand with the people of Ukraine anymore? The reasons why EASP chose not to comment on Israel-Palestine and completely ignored other conflicts like Yemen are exactly the same: The suffering group is psychologically distant and does not elicit enough empathy. If a non-European country declares war on a European nation and starts killing thousands of civilians, will EASP similarly say that they are not taking a stance on this? There is nothing rational about this. It is all tribalism. I would not want to see any academic/scientific organization to pledge allegiance to any political organization. But they can, and should, contribute to the public debate within their own field of expertise. For example, do social psychologists have nothing to say about Israeli Defense Minister saying that they are fighting "human animals" while they are busy publishing their works on dehumanization and its dangerous consequences in fancy journals? There are plenty of social psychologists working on peace and conflict resolution and yet EASP has nothing to say when it comes to this particular conflict?

17 months apart, 2 different emails. I am struggling to explain to my Middle Eastern students and colleagues that they matter. Their lives matter. Their families matter. Their research matter. If human rights apply to everyone, then what’s the point? No statement is a statement.

NEW: @UNHumanRights NY Office Director @CraigMokhiber resigns in protest over timidity of key parts of #UN system on issues pertaining to Palestinian Human Rights. In letter to @volker_turk he says: "This is a text-book case of genocide. The European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase, toward the expedited destruction of the last remnants of indigenous Palestinian life in #Palestine."

700 killed in the last 24 hours in Gaza. We have officially reached the highest lethal rate of Palestinians killed per day since 1948.

Veteran Haaretz journalist Amira Hass has reported from the Occupied Palestinian Territories for decades and says the Israeli public is "drunk with the will to take revenge" on Palestinians, spurred on by a far-right government dominated by "extreme fascist settlers."

Mass arrests in the West Bank and Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. Lawyers and doctors are even having their licenses revoked and arrested over social media posts.

We are living in a world where we are trying to convince people that killing 500+ people in a hospital with a bomb is wrong. And we need to clarify and justifiy that we aren’t being anti-something while saying this. And we still fail to convince and we are deemed an enemy. Wow.

Join us in 40 minutes, online or in person @improvingpsych #SIPS2023 with @AlaaAldoh and @AleksandrinaSkv! 🤩

At SIPS @improvingpsych, @FORRTproject will again be hosting a Reversals hackathon! 🤩 We already documented 400+ effects & we're not stopping now! 😱 I hope to see many of you coming Saturday June 24th at 11:30 CET - in-person (@AlaaAldoh) or virtual (@AleksandrinaSkv & me) ❤️

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✨ ATTENTION ✨ FORRT is holding their very own Replications & Reversals Across the Social Sciences Hackathon! ⏰ When? January 26th from 12-18pm CET 👩‍💻 Where? Virtually on Zoom aka all over the world And we need you to get involved! 👇

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Besides Elsevier's monopoly of academic research and ridiculous profit margin (37% in 2018), it also markets its services for oil and gas exploration. Sign this petition calling on Elsevier to take action on their ties to the fossil fuel industry! secure.ucsusa.org/a/2022-10-11-x…

Check out @Nature’s editorial about our #STRINGS22 report “Research on goal 7, affordable and clean energy, has taken a sharp downturn since the pandemic” High income countries are not prioritising relevant SDG goals in their research systems! nature.com/articles/d4158…

A 2 year interdisciplinary report in the making shows the science, technology, and innovation (#STI) are not aligned with the UN’s SDGs tinyurl.com/2p8f5xdv tl;dr? go to p.10 for a snapshot of the report! w collaborators @SPRU @UCLSTEaPP @UKRI @UNDP_innovation