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They Can't Stop Us
Join IJAN in defending the rights of students and professors to learn about, teach about and organize for justice in Palestine.
Congratulations
to Northeastern University – Students for Justice in Palestine for
their reinstatement after having being wrongfully suspended.
The Palestine solidarity movement has and will continue to successfully defend ourselves against attempts to censor our freedom of speech and anti-racist organizing. Take Action
Despite ongoing attempts to quash the
speech of faculty and students alike, the campus movement for justice
in Palestine has gone from strength to strength. It has passed
divestment resolutions in student assemblies at the University of
Michigan-Dearborn and Loyola, successfully organized to reinstate Students for Justice in Palestine at Northeastern University, gathered professors to defend the American Studies Association landmark endorsement of the academic boycott, won endorsement of the Asian American Studies Association and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Campus organizers have incrementally built the level of struggle while facing attacks, as with the Students
Allied for Freedom and Equality’s inspiring sit-ins at University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor which forced their student government to vote on
their boycott resolution.
Israel’s
defenders, aware that their longstanding attempt to control public
opinion is faltering, are investing over $300 million in propaganda,
surveillance, and repressive litigation in attempts to silence
solidarity with Palestine by making false accusations of antisemitism.
By
now, the pattern of institutional muzzling of voices advocating for an
open hearing for the Palestinian cause is unmistakable: Northeastern
University with its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) suspended
until the movement forced its reinstatement, NYU falsely accused of anti-Semitism
for distributing home demolition orders to highlight the destruction of
Palestinian homes by the State of Israel, Florida Atlantic University
students forced into re-education programs, a call for the removal of Palestinian professor Rabab Abdulhadi at San Francisco State University,
and University of California-Irvine students facing state charges for
voicing opposition to the presence of state apologists following the
brutal 2008-2009 assault on the Gaza Strip.
Coordinating
the charge against the growing support for justice in Palestine is the
Israel Action Network (IAN), a strategic initiative of the Jewish
Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs,
launched in October 2010 with an initial three-year, $6 million
investment.
A
sister project, the national Israeli Campus Coalition, is a national
network of students, faculty and professionals dedicated to combating
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), tracking “anti-Israel”
organizing on campus and coordinating an "early warning system" to alert
campus constituents and national partners about anti-Israel activity.
They recruit, train and resource campus activists – students and faculty
– and organizations to carry out the goal of silencing any criticism of
Israel or support for the Palestinian struggle by every available
means.
This
agenda threatens many things people of conscience hold dear: free
speech, academic freedom, the sanctity of universities as places of
anti-racist organizing, self-determination of oppressed peoples, and
ethnic studies.
Join
us in encouraging campus administrators to protect these strongholds of
freedom and justice and protect students, professors and faculty from
this bullying.
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