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Displaced Palestinians gather on the beach in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip during the truce between Israel and Hamas, November 29, 2023. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Before the genocide in Gaza, Haidar Eid performed a rendition of Ahmad Fouad Negm’s “If the Sun Sinks,” a poem that beautifully mirrors the contradiction Palestinians now face between the ongoing horror and the hope for liberation.

Free Palestine encampment on the steps of Sproul Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, April 25, 2024. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

At a time when Palestine activism and free expression at U.S. universities are under attack, Steven Salaita’s new memoir disabuses us of the notion that these universities are anything other than hedge funds with a campus.