Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s detention confirms what the BDS movement has long argued: Israeli universities are first and foremost instruments of the state and agents of Zionism’s project of dispossession and apartheid rule.
The Palestinian Feminist Collective condemns sophicide and scholasticide in Gaza – the deliberate annihilation of Indigenous knowledge traditions and the physical destruction of centers of knowledge.
Hebrew University’s suspension of Palestinian professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian sends a chilling message to scholars worldwide. Silencing her undermines academic freedom and the broader struggle for human rights and dignity in Palestine and beyond.
Our collective voices and financial influence are crucial in holding our institutions accountable. We call on fellow alumni to join us in supporting Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and pro-Palestinian students and activists on campus and beyond.
The backlash against Palestine in education isn’t just happening in universities. There have also been dozens of educators disciplined at primary and secondary schools across the U.S. for teaching about the Israeli attack on Gaza.
A statement by 18 Columbia University deans amounts to a new norm prohibiting Palestinian political aspirations in favor of privileging a politics of feeling to protect those who feel threatened by Palestinian freedom.
In order to defend academic freedom we need to challenge groups such as the Pinsker Centre which is working to silence Palestinian solidarity on UK campuses.
Emails from administrators at the University of California, Santa Cruz show the bureaucratic ways U.S. universities suppress discussion on Palestine.
Similar to attacks on LGBTQ books and works of “Critical Race Theory,” the pro-Israel crusade to suppress Palestinian voices is a systematic campaign of political targeting.
The president of Barnard College wrote she is “appalled and saddened” to see anti-Zionism spreading on campus. In doing so, she made clear who is considered a valued member of the Barnard community and who the institution is willing to sacrifice.