Students are ‘learning’ about Israel-Hamas from TikTok. We must step up

TikTok is better than Australian universities.

Shlomo Sand, _The Invention of the Jewish People_. Come to Mastodon - we have postings by Al Jazeera, UNWRA, MAP, MSF etc to counter the media time allocated to Hotoveley and Regev.

I’m torn on this one. I suspect people are, in general, intellectually lazy. If their views seem to jive with those around them, they are happy enough. Social media enables people to find voices that echo their own bias and prejudice. We can all be guilty of this comforting laziness at times. Social media also fundamentally changes communication - it is not a true real-time dialogue for a start. I suspect that individuals will say things on-line that they would not say out loud in a conversation. By its nature, social media also places less emphasis on listening - the most important part of difficult conversations. So, what inecentive do we offer to encourage folks away from the comfort of opinion and towards the pain of thought and effort?

This whole article smacks of 'why are young people not as clever as my superior generation'. There is a lot of evidence that actually the age group most susceptible to online fakery are over 65s.

Both Jewish and Muslim students will have predictable biases here based on their backgrounds, it is those of us who come from neither heritage or faith who are often remarkably ignorant of the facts, never mind the background to the prejudices displayed by those closer to the dispute. Did you know, for example, that the patch of land known today as the Gaza Strip was originally the homeland of the Philistines? It never has been a part of Israel, not even in Biblical times. It's easy to sound off based on our prejudices. We all need to find out more about how the situation came to be if we want to be in a position to make meaningful commentary.

No! Not a particular course. But all courses must teach critical reading of all sources. But why does the author's own website describe him as a "cultural psychologist" and not "a cognitive..."? And never call himself a "professor" We must all read critically