Had a very quick read about Nurit Peled-Elhanan.
Her thirteen year old daughter was killed in a 1997 terrorist attack by Hamas, and because she dared to consider that the oppression of Gaza may have been a factor which led to October 7th, she was suspended from the college she worked at.
Apart from her dedication to human rights, perhaps she was a grieving mother searching for answers. Truly disgraceful, and extreme.
‘On Oct. 25, Professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan, a lecturer at a college in Jerusalem, participated in a discussion in a faculty WhatsApp group about the horrific events of Oct. 7. In response to another lecturer’s message, she wrote that “the massacre,” referring to the actions of Hamas, reminded her of something the French philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote about race relations, adding a paraphrased quote: “‘After so many years that the neck of the occupied has been suffocating under your iron foot and suddenly was given a chance to raise his eyes, what kind of gaze did you expect you would see there?’ We saw this gaze,” Ms. Peled-Elhanan wrote to her colleagues.
A few hours later, Ms. Peled-Elhanan — a winner of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for human rights and the freedom of thought, and a bereaved mother whose 13-year-old daughter, Smadar, was murdered in a 1997 terrorist attack by Hamas — received a letter from the president of the college. He advised her that she was suspended and summoned her to a hearing on whether her employment would be terminated. The charge: “displays of understanding to the horrific act of Hamas” and expressing “justification to the heinous act.”’
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/israel-is-silencing-internal-critics/