…or destroying it.

President Vladimir Putin embarked on a Urals tour where he melded the future of education, industry, and happy civic life. Read all about it, translation may be required.

Elsewhere, Nadda Osman builds on the sad tale I began telling last month about the war on higher education in Gaza. Read his article which provides much more detail on the targeted destruction of Palestinian educational facilities and, especially, critical intellectuals.

After more than 130 days of war on Gaza, many of the coastal enclave’s universities and educational institutions lie in ruins.

At least 28,700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of the war on 7 October and around 70 percent of the Strip’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed.

Palestine has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, but the war on Gaza has devastated the education sector, killing thousands of students, and leaving hundreds of thousands out of school for almost five months.

According to the Euro-Med Monitor, Israel’s army has so far killed 94 university professors, along with hundreds of teachers, in what the rights group describes as “deliberate and specific air raids” on the homes of academic, scientific or intellectual figures.

“The targeted academics studied and taught across a variety of academic disciplines, and many of their ideas served as cornerstones of academic research in the Gaza Strip’s universities,” the rights group said.

This is further evidence of the Zionists’ genocide, the part aimed at depriving Palestinians of any manner of a better future. Osman mentions Saeed al-Dahshan, now murdered, and his 2021 book, [How To Sue Israel]: The International Prosecution of Israel and its Leaders for Their Crimes Against the Palestinians. The book outlines an approach via the ICJ, the route SA has taken 3 years later. I have not found an intact copy nor an edition in a language I understand. However, several chapters are available in Arabic.