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USACBI protests Yeshiva University’s trampling of academic freedom at Cardozo Law School
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) sent the letter below to President Ari Berman of Yeshiva University, in protest of the university’s censorship of a lecture by Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi organized by a student group on campus. As noted in the letter, “Cardozo is obliged to respect and welcome […]
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Sign On — Protect SFSU faculty members’ academic freedom: Demand SFSU President Lynn Mahoney Resign
PROTECT SFSU FACULTY MEMBERS’ ACADEMIC FREEDOM: DEMAND THAT SFSU PRESIDENT LYNN MAHONEY RESIGN Click here to sign on On September 23, 2020, San Francisco State University (SFSU) administrators collaborated with corporate tech giants Zoom, Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube to shut down a virtual Open Classroom entitled “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice, & Resistance: A Conversation with […]
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November 19, Online Event: Comparative Criminalization: Repression and Resistance Across Borders
Friday, November 19 11 am Pacific (2 pm Eastern, 9 pm Palestine) Register here for updates: https://bit.ly/repressionevent Live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/USACBI/videos/390365819489596/ Live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUdbFoTTfsE From the Israeli designation of Palestinian civil society organizations as “terrorist,” to San Francisco State University’s repression of Palestine in the classroom, to the repression student activists and faculty face […]
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Video and Take Action: We Will Not Be Silenced: Defending Palestine, Academic Freedom and Anti-Colonial Pedagogy: A Community Teach-In
On Tuesday, 28 September, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel hosted a webinar, “We Will Not Be Silenced: Defending Palestine, Academic Freedom and Anti-Colonial Pedagogy: A Community Teach-In.” The event featured a conversation with Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, Prof. Tomomi Kinukawa and Omar Zahzah on two grievances filed against San Francisco […]
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Tues, Sept. 28: We Will Not Be Silenced: Defending Palestine, Academic Freedom and Anti-Colonial Pedagogy: A Community Teach-In
We Will Not Be Silenced: Defending Palestine, Academic Freedom and Anti-Colonial Pedagogy: A Community Teach-In Tuesday, Sept. 28 1:00 PM Pacific time (4:00 pm Eastern time, 11:00 pm Palestine time) Register for reminders: https://bit.ly/teachpal Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1030111381168628 Join the event: Live on Facebook: https://facebook.com/USACBI Live on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3MaS_omiHC Speakers: Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, Prof. Tomomi Kinukawa, Omar Zahzah Join the […]
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Victory for Academic Freedom in Canada! (But bittersweet): University of Toronto Censure
The USACBI Organizing Collective sends its salutes and congratulations to Censure U of T and all of the scholars and activists who have worked so hard, through the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) censure of the University of Toronto, and the support for the censure by scholars around the world, to ensure that there is not […]
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August 28, Webinar: Academic Freedom in Palestine: A Conversation with Imad Barghouthi
Saturday, August 28 9 am Pacific, 12 pm Eastern, 7 pm Palestine time Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsdeGgqT8iGtTXTYZuJtkzslCT6uCYnQL3/success?user_id=yY-fvGcSR2yih1ENdAPYIg&timezone_id=Asia%2FJerusalem Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/NZxjjkl0 Event organized by Scientists for Palestine Join Scientists for Palestine, as we speak directly to Imad Barghouthi, renowned Palestinian astrophysicist, father of five and Professor of Plasma Physics at Al Quds university (West Bank) ! Prof. Imad […]
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Defend academic freedom on Palestine: Support the censure of the University of Toronto
Earlier this academic year, the University of Toronto made an abrupt decision to block the hiring of Dr. Valentina Azarova to head its Faculty of Law’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP), following the intervention of a major donor who objected to Dr. Azarova’s scholarship on the Israeli state’s violations of the human rights of Palestinians. This trampling […]
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Video: Weaponizing Anti-Semitism: IHRA and the End of the Palestine Exception – USACBI Webinar
On Tuesday, April 6, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel hosted a webinar on “Weaponizing Anti-Semitism: IHRA and Ending the Palestine Exception.” Featured speakers at the event were Dima Khalidi of Palestine Legal, Prof. Richard Falk, Prof. Cornel West and composer Raymond Deane. Nura Bawab, a student at the University […]
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California Scholars for Academic Freedom addresses Blinken on IHRA definition
California Scholars for Academic Freedom (cs4af) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in response to Blinken’s comments that “the Biden Administration enthusiastically embraces the 2016 International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Working Definition of Anti-Semitism, including its examples”. This academic-freedom-focused response may be useful to faculty and students struggling with anti-Palestinian repression and […]
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