Dr. Lara Sheehi is the latest of far too many professors and clinicians to be slandered by pro-Israeli lobbies for standing up for the rights of Palestinians and other oppressed peoples.
We must support Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, who has been systematically undermined by the administration of San Francisco State University for her work championing Palestinian liberation
Students, faculty, alumni, labor leaders, clergy, and community members rallied this week to protest President Lynn Mahoney’s undermining of San Francisco State University faculty and the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas studies program.
Join Scientists for Palestine for renowned Palestinian astrophysicist Imad Barghouthi’s first interview since being released after nearly a year of Israeli administrative detention.
The organizers of the Open Classroom event, “Whose Narratives? What Free Speech for Palestine” say they had their right to free speech silenced by private tech companies Zoom, Facebook, and Eventbrite when the companies bowed to the fraudulent threat of prosecution. Now the organizers are calling on supporters to demand an end to corporate control of academia and an end to Israel lobby censorship and bullying.
Faculty and staff at the University of Illinois call on the administration to reject equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism saying it not only carries grave implications for free speech, but also distracts from challenging the actual racism happening on Illinois campuses.
Palestinians have identified how we, internationally, can be in solidarity with their struggle for liberation by targeting our institutions that sustain the occupation. This is the movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS).
“I do not recall a time in my life when I did not experience bans on freedom of speech,” writes Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi in a new book on academic freedom and its limits.
Chomsky on pro-Israel fanatics: In years gone by, police would insist on walking me back to my car because of threats they had picked up. Meetings were broken up, and so on. That’s all gone.