Response to Calderon-Margalit et al: the asymmetry of empathy.

Abstract

This response to the critique of my reflection engages with concerns raised by professors at the Braun School of Public Health, HUJI. While acknowledging their disappointment, I reaffirm my central argument that Israeli academia, despite individual gestures, collectively failed to create an institutional culture enabling fearless engagement with Gaza's humanitarian catastrophe. Workshops and academic forums inadequately addressed the crisis, depicting selective empathy and technocratic detachment. Universities bear ethical responsibility during atrocities, their silence, intentional or systemic, risks complicity in injustice.