Columbia University professors Awi Federgruen and Ran Kivetz have presented research findings asserting that sufficient food supplies are entering Gaza, disputing claims of famine perpetuated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations (UN, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday.
Professors Federgruen, Chair of Columbia University Business School’s Decision, Risk and Operations Division, and Kivetz, the Philip H. Geier Professor at Columbia University Business School, have analyzed extensive data from sources such as COGAT (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories) and the UN.
They argue that the narrative blaming Israel for causing famine in Gaza is a “myth” and that sufficient humanitarian aid is being provided.
They pointed to a March 2024 report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an arm of the UN, which predicted a major famine in Gaza allegedly provoked by Israel. This report, they argue, has been misinterpreted and used to propagate false accusations.
Federgruen and Kivetz emphasize that their analysis is based on hard data, demonstrating that the food supply entering Gaza is more than sufficient to meet the needs of its 2.2 million residents. They calculate that 250 truckloads, each carrying 20 tons of food, provide 2.25 kilograms of food per person daily, aligning with the average North American diet.
Ah yes, the same kind of logic that proves that nobody in the United States is starving because we have far more food available per person than needed.
It checks out since food is perfectly evenly distributed all the time, especially during violent conflicts!
And all the aid trucks Israel is letting in are filled with 100% food.
Nothing else.
They didn’t say nobody in Gaza is starving.
“If there was a famine somewhere in Gaza, it was not instigated by Israel.” … The research underscores that while sufficient food enters Gaza, its distribution within the territory is inconsistent, largely due to sabotage and theft by Hamas.
They are just running a dilatory PR campaign!
So you think Hamas is not interfering with food delivery?
Yes Hamas is is starving Gaza residents, IDF dindu nuffin mate
Why not both?
why are you hitting yourself?
Hamas doesn’t care about Gazan civilians. They are a “necessary sacrifice”.
Propaganda by a university investing in genocide.
Colombia University is officialy off the deep end.
And to think, it used to be the best school for journalism in perhaps the world. But we’re seeing everywhere that right-wing extremists are targeting these institutions and undermining them. They just dismantled Stanford’s disinformation research group, as well as Harvard’s.
Oh shit, did not know that abt the disinformation research groups. That’s fucked.
They are the best school for Journalists that want to rub arms with the elites.
Will land one a cushy job over at a media conglomerate.
There’s technically enough food for nobody to starve, so nobody can be starving!
The exact same way it works in the rest of the world right now, right?
…right??
Me: I wonder what they’re claiming. It might be worth looking at, even if just to see why and how it is wrong.
Article: “If there was a famine somewhere in Gaza, it was not instigated by Israel. To the contrary, Israel is engaged in a variety of efforts to ensure sufficient food enters Gaza through land crossings"
Me:
Zionist acolytes spring into action to explain away how people are not starving in a warzone based on data provided by the Genocide State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinator_of_Government_Activities_in_the_Territories
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories is a unit in the ### Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Is this some sort of joke? At what point will this people be held accountable for promoting the ethnic cleansing campaign within Gaza?
I hope this kinda response is blasted from the rooftops, maybe make sure it’s on a billboard during the fall when prospective students are being showed around. Let high-schoolers across the country know that Columbia University supports genocide and is willing to use their reputation to spread misinformation.
Insanity. Literally just a form of derangment. That or they’re troglodytes…
