#EMNLP2024 Findings Improving Argument Effectiveness Across Ideologies using Instruction-tuned Large Language Models Roxanne El Baff, Khalid Al-Khatib, Milad Alshomary, Kai Konen, Benno Stein, and Henning Wachsmuth 📜webis.de/publications.h…

Amid ongoing conflict in Lebanon’s south and Beqaa Valley, Dr. Hélène Sader, professor of history and archaeology at AUB, warns that unexcavated heritage sites, housing significant Phoenician, Roman, and Ottoman artifacts, are at serious risk of destruction.

It is with great sadness that we learned today of the tragic death of Farah Mokdad, a first-year student in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who was the victim of an Israeli airstrike on her home in the Bekaa Valley. Farah was a bright,

My favorite paper at #EMNLP2024: „OATH-Frame: a novel framework to understand, synthesize and characterize large-scale public attitudes towards societal issues through a collaboration between social work experts and LLM“ by Jaspreet Ranjit et al. dill-lab.github.io/oath-frames/

This was instantaneously my deepest fear as the news of the ICC arrest warrants came in. It is noticeable that as of January, at every move at the int'l justice level, there has been an immediate intensification of lethal violence against the Palestinians in Gaza. This also

Israel bombed in Lebanon yesterday and today, they opened fire on farmers, on a funeral, snipers shot at journalists. They are advancing into towns they were repelled from in the fighting. They are tearing up olive trees. Not a single person has fired back. The moment somebody

I cannot emphasize this enough. There is life-saving aid at the border, including blankets, clothing, shoes, and materials for shelter, and Israel is actively blocking it. That is genocidal. middleeastmonitor.com/20241127-israe…

Watching Elon Musk and others slip so seamlessly from liberalism to fascism is a reminder of how porous the boundaries are between those two positions…

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Shocked by Israeli forces' raid on East Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop—an intellectual lighthouse and family-run gem resisting Palestinian erasure under apartheid. Internationals in Jerusalem: please show up, stand with the Muna family, and protect this vital hub. Don't leave

Here we f* go again!

❌ALARMING❌The Israeli government's formally announced intention to permanently annex the entire occupied West Bank is such a serious and egregious violation of int'l law, that if not halted, the collapse of the multilateral system built on universal principles (such as

This is 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna. It was just announced that she is the subject of a new documentary, to be screened at a festival in France. Hours later she was massacred by Israeli soldiers together with 10 members of her family.

I’ve seen the silhouettes of so many people—so many children—burning alive, that I can’t look at fire anymore without feeling sick to my stomach. WE MUST STOP THIS MASSACRE. May the Palestinians forgive us.

Q: Why would Israel attack areas it’s designated as safe immediately after telling civilians to flee there? A: Because Israel is committing genocide.

Let’s be clear: the world is watching Israel attack a civilian boat carrying no weapons—only humanitarian aid—flying a U.K. flag in international waters & carrying humanitarians of many nationalities. Israel has precisely zero authority to do so under any law. #AllEyesOnDeck

❗️BREAKING❗️All eyes on Masafer Yatta! Twelve Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills, home to 2,800 people, are at imminent risk of mass demolition and forcible displacement. Yet another war crime, yet another crime against humanity. On June 18, Israel’s High Planning