Muzzling Critics

A collective letter to Substack leadership

Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi: ‘We in the Jewish community are longing for a day that we can refer to the president and all of Harvard as ours.’

Administration officials highlighted the elevated threat level, while lawmakers pressed them to move faster to issue regulations regarding campus antisemitism

Federal law enforcement is under pressure to launch specious terrorism investigations into pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses, based solely on their public statements.

The cathedral of censorship is a vast, airy one.  In its embrace, texts are abridged, images removed, ideas scrubbed.  Historical inconveniences are filed

I feel compelled to call attention to the predictable dynamic that the legitimate concerns about antisemitism on university and college campuses will be… | 81 comments on LinkedIn

“We’ve been facing a lot of repression,” an SJP member said.

This report highlights the widespread problem of anti-Palestinian racism (APR) in Canadian society, exposing more than 500 examples of this form of racism in online written content in 2022. The report argues that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism should be recognized as a key purveyor of APR, as it drives conflation of antisemitism with criticism of Israel, leading to unfair and defamatory attacks on Palestinians and their supporters.

"We must recognize the importance of providing a safe space for all voices to be heard, especially Muslim and Arab, considering the rhetoric that is being pushed by the United States & Western media."

Samera Abed believes she was targeted for “wearing my heritage clothing, for signaling that I’m from this specific culture.”

Over 200 students and faculty members condemned the decision, which they say is based on the group’s research into Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

Masha Gessen soll den Hannah-Arendt-Preis bekommen. Mehrere Institutionen wenden sich gegen die Vergabe. Gessen hatte die Lage in Gaza mit jüdischen Gettos verglichen.

The German Green Party-affiliated Heinrich Böll Foundation, “in agreement with the Bremen Senate,” is withdrawing from awarding the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought to the Russ…

These mostly bogus plagiarism charges are the latest blunt weapon in the right’s war on universities as poisoners of young people’s minds.

Harvard’s President Claudine Gay sees unanimous support from the university board to remain in her role.

The resolution could again prompt a divide for Democrats on Israel and antisemitism issues

Associate dean tells local SJP chapter 'there is a reasonable basis to conclude' its activities 'pose a substantial and immediate threat to the safety and well-being of others'

How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today.

A Roosevelt Island couple has proudly checked out five children’s books about the Palestinian experience, vowing not to return them so as to protect the good people of New York from blatant “indoct…

Congressional interns say they wrote letter 'to expose the patent malpractice of Congress'

Are you concerned about the state led crackdown on Pro Palestinian solidarity in Europe? 🇵🇸 Do you want to learn how to resist this repression and continue...

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed a discrimination complaint on behalf of a Black Muslim Arab American teacher in Maryland, who was placed on administrative leave for her email signature, which included a controversial phrase supporting Palestinian rights.

The nonprofit, based out of the University of Toronto, asked a group of Arab and Muslim artists for a last-minute “sensitivity review” of their exhibition.

It was a bright morning two Wednesdays ago, and Manan Ahmed, a professor of South Asian history at Columbia, was rushing across Broadway, trying to find a print shop that could make a giant poster on short notice. As he walked, he texted a few colleagues—classicists, anthropologists, other historians—asking whether anyone knew where to get a megaphone. “We’re nerds, man,” he told me. “Tracking down a medieval scroll in some dusty archive? That we know how to do. We have no goddam idea how to organize a protest.”

NGO Defense for Children International's offices were raided after they reported the sexual assault of a 15-year-old by an interrogator while in Israeli custody

German politicians often boast of having atoned for their ancestors’ crimes — but then claim that antisemitism is an ill imported by migrants. Far from a model, German memory culture has created an exceptionalist myth that Germans understand racism best.

The trio were suspended after releasing an unsanctioned statement announcing their support for a ceasefire in Gaza

“This is a local police department that increasingly acts like a national intelligence agency,” one expert said.