People’s truth speaks louder than settler colonialism and denialism for Palestine and “Comfort Women.”
Rabab Abdulhadi on receiving the ASA’s Angela Y. Davis Award for Outstanding Public Scholarship: “Inaction is not an option. We must place the voices and liberation of Palestine and all oppressed at the center of our scholarship, pedagogy and advocacy.”
Zionist groups are making cynical use of San Francisco State University’s identity-based protections against discrimination to ban criticism against Israel as antisemitic.
At the heart of such campaigns is the false notion that criticism of Zionism and Israeli policy and support for justice in Palestine constitute antisemitism. In response to these attacks and the growing violence of Israeli policies, increasing numbers of Jews, particularly among younger generations, now openly define themselves as anti-Zionist.
Renowned Palestinian feminist and organic intellectual Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi has been awarded the Jere L. Bacharach Service Award by the Middle East Studies Association, recognizing her lifelong work for freedom and liberation.
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
Teaching Palestine marks several watershed historical moments in the Palestinian freedom struggle with two major international gatherings in Lebanon and Tunisia.
SFSU President Lynn Mahoney’s third veto of an independent Faculty Hearing Panel demonstrates the University’s allegiance to and acquiescence of corporatized Big Tech’s increasing control over curriculum content as well as the university’s complicity with Zionist organizations that deliberately seek to stifle all critiques of the apartheid state of Israel.
Dr. Tomomi Kinukawa shares their opening and closing statements in their grievance hearing against San Francisco State University for the silencing of “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice, & Resistance: A Conversation with Leila Khaled.”
A faculty panel unanimously sided with Professor Rabab Abdulhadi in a grievance against San Francisco State University, vindicating Abdulhadi, AMED, and Palestine Studies.
Critical Ethnic Studies threatens Zionist and right-wing forces who seek to silence Palestinian narratives, and similar to Critical Race Theory it is under attack. In this climate, defending Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi and the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies program at San Francisco State University is more critical and urgent now than ever.