Amid Israel-Hamas war, colleges draw lines on faculty free speech
Leila Hudson treads carefully when discussing the Israel-Hamas war. This story also appeared in EdSource As a Palestinian-American and the elected faculty chair at the University of Arizona, she says she has no choice. University policy forbids staff from using the college’s resources, including websites, computers and letterhead, to take a position on any ongoing […]
Australian media campaign to shut down protests against Israeli genocide
Murdoch’s Australian blatantly sought to link a Sydney University anti-genocide encampment to a witch hunt against seven Islamic teenagers arrested last week on flimsy “terrorism” charges.
C Pam Zhang and Safiya Noble have withdrawn as USC commencement speakers.
In response to the University of Southern California administration’s recent behavior regarding pro-Palestinian protest on campus, Booker Prize-nominated novelist C Pam Zhang (How Much of The…
Canadian students defy threats of state repression with anti-genocide encampment at Montreal’s McGill University
The anger and outrage expressed by students over the universal support within the political establishment for Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians is shared by thousands across the country who have participated in demonstrations over recent weeks.
“Independent” German political website censors Socialist Equality Party candidate for European elections
Imperialist war is incompatible with democracy.The more openly the German government pursues rearmament and war, the more the freedom of expression must give way to political censorship and conformity.
White House condemns antisemitic language at anti-Israel rallies on US campuses
NSC spokesman Kirby insists Gaza war demonstrations must remain peaceful after police arrest around 275 protesters over the weekend at four separate universities
US: Israel supporter uses n-word against black Palestine activists at UCLA
A supporter of Israel spat at black Gaza solidarity protesters and used the n-word against them at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in response to demonstrations against US...
Pro-Israel protestor wishes pro-Palestine student is 'r*ped'
A pro-Israel protestor repeatedly tells a pro-Palestine student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to 'go back to Gaza' and that she hopes they 'rape' her. The incident...
Universities Are Actively Corrupting Academic Freedom to Repress Gaza Protests
Over 900 student protestors have been arrested in the past two weeks across the country in the student uprisings to create “liberated zone” encampments at their universities and call for divestment from Israel’s war machine. The arrests have been enforced by city police and state troopers in a heavy militarization of U.S. campuses in response to peaceful protest camp sites. Universities have chosen to erode academic freedom on their campuses while maintaining complicity in weapons companies amid the genocide of over 34,480 people in Gaza, including at least 14,500 children. We are seeing pervasive harm done to the international reputation of American universities and the pillars of academic freedom underscored by the First Amendment and our democratic ideals here in the United States. While most of us assume that these universities cultivate thought and are strongholds for constructive dialogue, logic, rationality, and activism—instead, what we are seeing today is the oppression of students with no evidence of their wrongdoing. Even the infamous New York Police Department officers making arrests at Columbia University noted the students were peaceful and that it was university officials who identified a “danger” posed by students—a clear sign of political theater and moral evasiveness by university officials in criminalizing these peaceful anti-war protests made up of young people.With more divestment encampment protests popping up every day across the country, American universities stand at a crossroads for academic freedom. University leaders must ask themselves: Do they embrace a separation between the moral, academic, and political? Does investing in an apartheid state that is waging a war of genocide in front of the whole world represent the values they advocate and stand for? This pivotal moment will define the reputation and standing of American universities for decades to come. Every infringement on the rights of students and their historic efforts for peace will be a dark stain on our history. As students show that they stand for justice amid a genocide and demand their colleges to do the right thing, we ask colleges to show us what they stand for. The university leaders know that their complicity with Israel is immoral and indefensible. They have the choice to change their policies rather than silence students who object to this complicity. We call for an end to the oppression of students and the threat to both their futures and the future of academic freedom. We call on universities to respond to students’ just demands for full disclosure of university investments in companies complicit in genocide and apartheid, for full divestment from these companies, and to drop their charges against students protesting peacefully for justice.
A House bill asks the Treasury to revoke the nonprofit status of suspected “terrorist supporting organizations.” Advocates are already singling out Muslim and Palestinian groups.
Confrontation in Dunn Meadow: the Police Raids at Indiana University
Thursday afternoon, April 25th, 2024, I was doing my job making sales calls as a staffperson at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana,.My wife was
BREAKING: CAIR Calls on George Washington University to Allow Medical Access, Legal Observers for Anti-Genocide Student Protesters -
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on George Washington University in Washington, D.C., to allow medical access and legal observers for an anti-genocide student sit-in in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Students at the sit-in told CAIR this morning that police began barricading the students within […]
Bipartisan bill lets US government compel universities to accept antisemitism monitors
The COLUMBIA (College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability) Act seeks to withdraw federal funding for colleges that don't allow oversight
France’s Justice System Is Cracking Down on Israel’s Critics
France Insoumise election candidate Rima Hassan has received a police summons over possible “apology for terrorism” charges. She’s the latest of a string of pro-Palestine activists to face inquiries, in a blatant judicial offensive against Israel’s critics.
Empire Managers Say Russia, China And Iran Are Tricking Students Into Opposing Genocide
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Empire managers and propagandists are losing their minds about student protests against the genocide in Gaza on university campuses, so naturally we’re seeing a mad push to frame this as the result of interference by Russia, China, Iran and Hamas. These demented conspiracies of foreign influence come even as Israel’s prime minister openly calls for the US government to quash the university protests by any means necessary.
How a Jewish-supported civic resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza was killed The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain
Poisoning of the american mind higher education in the age of the new mccarthyism
No longer considered a public good where ideas and important social issues are nurtured, debated. and interrogated, institutions of higher education are being transformed into indoctrination centers where critical ideas and imagined futures are held in contempt, transformed into apparatuses of censorship and hopelessness. Derided as a haven for critically informed social criticism, the far-right wants to reduce teaching and learning to what might be called cloning pedagogies, designed to clone culture, knowledge, ideas, and extremist world views.
The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere
Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest.
