Columbia University staff are being suspended and terminated for participating in last Spring’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, even if they were off the clock at the time. Similar cases are being seen across the country.
Northwestern University tore down a sukkah I built with other students, supposedly under the guise of fighting antisemitism, because it said “Stop Arming Israel” on it. The school is using Jewish identity as cover for repressing Palestine solidarity.
“Despite the McCarthyite environment, the new anti-speech policies, the attempts to throw the book at students for minor violations of such policies, the student movement is still going strong,” says Palestine Legal attorney Radhika Sainath.
The recent avalanche of civil rights lawsuits in response to Palestine campus protests is the result of an intentional Israel advocacy strategy: criminalizing anti-Zionist politics by contorting the idea of civil rights.
Five Cal State Long Beach professors are being reprimanded by the school for their role in a Palestine solidarity protest. The move appears to be retribution for an article exposing the school’s ties to the Gaza genocide.
The campus protests for Gaza and their critics both claim to be upholding universal human rights. But only the protesters are upholding a true ethical universalism, while their critics are engaged in a cynical maneuver to justify genocide.
As alumni of The George Washington University, we condemn the university’s retaliation against students arrested at the Palestine solidarity encampment on GW’s campus.
Militaries need universities to develop technologies of war. Student researchers who are vital in developing these technologies are uniquely placed to disrupt them.
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.
Ten CUNY students are still facing felony charges from the police raid on City College’s Gaza encampment. If convicted, the ruling would set a precedent for prosecuting pro-Palestinian students and organizers across the United States.