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Record W4408844847 · doi:10.3366/hlps.2025.0348

Scholasticide: Waging War on Education from Gaza to the West

2025· article· en· W4408844847 on OpenAlexaff
Henry A. Giroux

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAncient historyGaza stripPolitical scienceHistoryPalestine

Abstract

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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.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.032

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.008
Scholarly communication0.0070.003
Open science0.0000.005
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.357
Teacher spread0.320 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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