#SBL Council Statement Concerning the Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza And Israel
The Society of Biblical Literature’s Council is saddened and horrified by the ongoing humanitarian crisis and human rights violations unfolding in #Israel and Gaza. Of particular concern are the ongoing violence, loss of innocent life, and deprivation of basic shelter, safety, food, water, electricity, medical supplies and other life essentials currently experienced by innocent victims in #Gaza.
This humanist expression of concern (and responsibility) by the SBL is not going down very well in academic circles in #Israel.
Vered Noam [professor of Talmud at Tel Aviv University [who used to live in Kfar Adumim, in the occupied West Bank] said in respect to a petition she signed with 400 other scholars:
"The SBL statement creates an outrageous equivalence between barbarism and civilization; between a society that cherishes life and a culture that sanctifies death; between vile murderers and rapists and defenders of their people and country; between a state that nurtures thriving settlements, scientific research, medicine and technology and a regime that produces only oppression, destruction, terror and bereavement... The SBL has failed to distinguish between good and evil."
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