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. 

The U.S. Prison, Labor and Academic Delegation to Palestine (2016) joins with organizations and individuals around the world to express its strongest solidarity with the six Palestinian human rights organizations that were falsely designated “terrorist institutions” by the Israeli government.

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.

President Mahoney’s decision upholds the University’s acceptance of Big Tech’s increasing control over academic discussion, and its complicity with Zionist organizations.

Two upcoming hearings at San Francisco State University could have nationwide impact on academic freedom and the rights of faculty and student to fight the censorship of Palestinian voices. Here’s how you can help.

Participants from the first delegation to visit occupied Palestine of feminists from Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian communities reconvened on the 10 year anniversary of the trip to recount what they saw and share how visiting Palestine continues to impact them to this day.

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.

On April 12 Facebook removed the event page for a panel on Palestine. The next day the tech company shut down the page for the academic program, the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies program at San Francisco State University, that sponsored it.

Fallout continues over Zoom’s censorship of a San Francisco State University academic forum featuring Leila Khaled. “Zoom should not be allowed to interfere with nor have any power over the content of our curriculum and classrooms,” Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi tells Mondoweiss.

Zoom has announced that it will deny its services to San Francisco State University today and block an online panel featuring Leila Khaled from happening with its software. Pro-Israel groups, including the Act.IL app which is partially funded by the Israeli government, are taking credit for helping cancel the event.