Judgement Day in Gaza: For Whom, for What and How? : Subha Reddy / FOGGS

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This is an excellent article  by Subha Reddy on the erasure of a people's knowledge system. 
Fouad

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Summary
In this searing essay, Sudha Reddy argues that Israel's war in Gaza is not merely a military assault but a systematic campaign of annihilation targeting the future of the Palestinian people through genocide and epistemicide. Drawing on Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s concept of epistemicide—the erasure of a people’s knowledge systems—she describes how children and women have become deliberate targets of destruction, and how Gaza’s schools, hospitals, and food systems have been methodically dismantled. Reddy denounces the paralysis of global institutions and urges a morally awakened global civil society to resist not only violence but the erasure of memory, meaning, and future possibility.

Quotes
“This is not collateral damage. It is a militarized blueprint—children are not dying by miscalculation; they are selected as soft targets.”

“It is not only genocide, but epistemicide… the murder of a people’s knowledge, memory, and cultural continuity.”

“Food is no longer a right but a weapon. The latest pattern of killing is luring the desperate ones to choose between dying starved and be shot before collecting bare minimum aid.”

“There is no space safe enough for childbirth. No arms left to cradle newborns.”

“The global order that rose after World War II with the promise of ‘Never Again’ is now enabling genocide through its bureaucracy, its veto power, and its silence.”

“Let it be known to the children of Gaza, whose nights echo with drones instead of lullabies that their suffering was not ignored—we heard their pain and stood with them.”