• @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    -176 months ago

    The “study” appears to be a paper from a student group at a liberal arts university in Wesleyan, Connecticut.

    While I’m sure Wesleyan University is a fine school, calling it a “coalition of prestigious academic institutions” is a bit of a stretch.

    So… uni students upset over things they saw on TikTok put 105 pages of whatever crap they could dreg up from the internet into a PDF and post it onto their squarespace page. “Middle East Monitor” links to the “study” says it’s from a “coalition of prestigious academic institutions”. And then a link to this “news” site gets posted to Lemmy.

    And here we are.

    • @goferking0OP
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      166 months ago

      The study, conducted by the University Network for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School, presents a thorough legal analysis of Israel’s conduct in the context of the Genocide Convention of 1948.

      I think you read the wrong article or hasbara answer

      • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        -86 months ago

        Ah… some other student groups joined in.

        They don’t mention their associations with these other universities on their squarespace page. But there’s some coalition that the “University Network for Human Rights” is a part of, so maybe these other groups are a part of that?

        • @zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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          66 months ago

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cavallaro

          James Cavallaro is a law professor that teaches or has taught at Wesleyan… And also Yale, Columbia, and UC Berkeley. He’s currently the executive director of the University Network for Human Rights, and before that founded the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at, uh let’s see here… Oh yeah, Stanford.

          Also, Wesleyan University, by the way, rivals Ivy League schools as far as academic rigor goes.

          You trying to diminish the validity of these organizations would work a lot better if you bothered to Google them for five seconds first.