Dr. Sang Hea Kil was suspended by San Jose State University before becoming the first tenured professor to lose their job for pro-Palestine advocacy. Now, an arbitrator has ruled that the school must reinstate her.
A new report examines 3,520 cases of suppression of Palestine-related content across Meta platforms.
Over two dozen House Democrats have sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling on the Trump administration to break its silence on Israel’s unclear weapons.
The free speech organization PEN America fired me three days after I published an article about how they investigated me for sharing an article critical of Zionism. My termination is a sad reflection of PEN’s censorious approach to Palestine.
A peer-reviewed article—on Indigenous dance in Palestine and Native North America as resistance to genocide—was formally accepted then rejected by the editors of The Journal of Somaesthetics, citing fear of criticizing Israel’s genocide.
A linguistics course I proposed to teach at MIT on decolonization in Haiti and Palestine was censored and attacked by the university. My story is just one small window into the broader crisis and repression unfolding in higher education.
Working at PEN American has given me a firsthand look at how liberal institutions suppress pro-Palestinian voices.
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.
Pro-Palestine activists are facing extreme repression and censorship at German universities as a growing number of students are finally questioning Germany’s unwavering commitment to Israel.