Doing Philosophy After Gaza
The following piece, written by Western University philosophy graduate student Farid Saberi, emerged from personal reflections of despair surrounding the genocide in Gaza. He shares his thoughts on what this scale of violence means for his field of study. History is going through one of its darkest hours. Since October 2023, a defenseless population in Gaza has been the victim of an ongoing assault that Amnesty International and reputable scholars of international law have described as genocide. The storm of misinformation and propaganda has been ruthless. The facts are quite straightforward: there is an occupying apartheid regime backed by Western…