As students protesting the Gaza genocide encounter violent repression, the push to integrate Arab American Studies and Palestine into Ethnic Studies faces censorship and political attacks as well.

The Drop the ADL from Schools campaign seeks to challenge the role the Anti-Defamation League plays in promoting anti-Palestinian racism in K-12 schools across the U.S.

The Anti-Defamation League misrepresents itself as an expert on antisemitism and bias when, in fact, it is a divisive political interest group that unconditionally supports Israel. Educators should cut all ties with the ADL.

Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinian people has systematically targeted children in both Gaza and the West Bank. The result is a war against an entire generation.

K-12 educators around the U.S. who show support for Palestine have been targeted with false charges of antisemitism and have faced a clear pattern of punishment without due process based on disturbing double standards.

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.

If you are an institution writing a statement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza without demanding an end to the blockade and Israeli impunity, or speaking out for Palestinian freedom, don’t even bother.

In 2018, Marc Lamont Hill was fired from his job at CNN over comments he made in support of Palestinian liberation. Now, Israel supporters are angered over his hiring by CUNY.

Israel’s war on education is part of Israel’s war on Palestinian childhood. The only way to fight it is through a Palestinian pedagogy of liberation and international solidarity through BDS.

Muntaha Aqel grew up among “the children of the rocks” of the First Intifada, and lived her life in service of her people’s liberation.