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Thanks heaps for lauching this important initiative, in the face of public space being more and more hijacked by ideo-influencers posing as informed experts and scholars. Us scholars, we need to be much more socially engaged, so that we can contribute to the broadening of social awareness horizons and informed socially-aware knowledge spaces, instead of pushing at the open door. Something that is, unfortunately still, very much prevalent in the scholarly world.

On that note, and to foster the above Geist, the rigour of insights should align with the rigour of language used to express and convey them to the public. In other words, so as not to contribute to the inforo-cognitive noise that continues to be overwhleming, you should reconsider the framing of concepts key to the context. Case in point bsing e.g. the *Israeli-Palestinian conflict*, which does not translate to the facts on the ground for the last 76+ years. More specifically, and in the light of documented evidence, the framing ought to place in the foreground that is the *Israeli ethnosupremacist genocidal settler-colonialism of Palestinians*. Continued framing as a conflict is not only in conflict with Palestinian reality, but also doing historical negationism a favor. Which I am sure is far from your intention with this informative initiative.

Thank you again for your extra-screen time here and the opportunity for a brainpicking. And I look very much forward to your future epistemic treats here.

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