Sieve

“In a statement on 19 June 2024, Chris Sidoti of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem and Israel remarked, ‘I don’t know whether it’s one of the most moral armies in the world or not, but what I do have expertise in and what I do have authority to do is make assessments of criminal conduct. And the only conclusion you can draw is that the Israeli army is one of the most criminal armies in the world’. Israel and IDF actions underscore the pressing need for accountability internationally and under Australia’s anti-terror laws.”

“Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps – [weaponizing] objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or that are associated with normal civilian daily use – precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and producing the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon today” — Lama Fakih, Human Rights Watch. That is what Israel has done, utterly disregarding the safety of civilians. That Hezbollah can be accused of similar crimes does not mitigate Israel’s.

In ”The inflated promise of science education”, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Silvia Ivani reject the “knowledge deficit model” of science communication, according to which the primary source of widespread anti-science attitudes is lack of knowledge of not only of what science teaches but also of how science works. On the contrary, ”the deficit model has not fared well in the face of evidence over the last two decades”: interventions based on it have not yielded the expected results in public understanding and acceptance of scientific results. They propose a shift from the one-way path of instruction and information to “reciprocal power-sharing, cooperation, and exchange” between researchers and the public. See more in their Boston Review article.