#freespeechoncampus — Public Fediverse posts

"Since October 7, academic institutions have applied overt and covert pressure to discourage Holocaust and genocide scholars from criticizing #Israel’s actions in #Gaza. Still, many academics are organizing new networks to defend free inquiry."

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/gaza-genocide-holocaust-studies-repression
#USpol #Palestine #GazaGenocide #academicFreedom #censorship #UShigherEd #civilLiberties #freeSpeechOnCampus #genocideStudies

"Since October 7, academic institutions have applied overt and covert pressure to discourage Holocaust and genocide scholars from criticizing #Israel’s actions in #Gaza. Still, many academics are organizing new networks to defend free inquiry."

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/gaza-genocide-holocaust-studies-repression
#USpol #Palestine #GazaGenocide #academicFreedom #censorship #UShigherEd #civilLiberties #freeSpeechOnCampus #genocideStudies

"In Conversation with #MahmoudKhalil" live at Busboys and Poets - 450K. Khalil discusses his #activism, #immigrationDetentions, and the ongoing legal battle following a federal appeals court decision that overturned his release. Tune in for a timely conversation on protest, immigration, and free expression in the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2BgqnuFqx8
#Palestine #Gaza #USpol #USpolitics #PalestineSolidarity #studentProtests #stateRepression #ICE #ICEdetention #FreedomOfSpeech #freeSpeechOnCampus

"In Conversation with #MahmoudKhalil" live at Busboys and Poets - 450K. Khalil discusses his #activism, #immigrationDetentions, and the ongoing legal battle following a federal appeals court decision that overturned his release. Tune in for a timely conversation on protest, immigration, and free expression in the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2BgqnuFqx8
#Palestine #Gaza #USpol #USpolitics #PalestineSolidarity #studentProtests #stateRepression #ICE #ICEdetention #FreedomOfSpeech #freeSpeechOnCampus

"#MauraFinkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of #academicFreedom are no longer holding."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/magazine/academic-freedom-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M08.N4MZ.GnbctFJl9QLD&smid=url-share

#USpol #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #civilLiberties #FreeSpeech #activism #FreeSpeechOnCampus #UShigherEd @palestine

"If history is any guide, rescuing the rights now being rolled back will require a range of tactics, including vigorous #protest itself. It will also require building broad and unwavering consensus about the speciousness of the rationales being offered for today’s draconian crackdowns."

Alex Gourevitch | The Right to Be Hostile

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-right-to-be-hostile/

#USpol #StudentProtests #FreeSpeechOnCampus #stateRepression #PalestineSolidarity #rightToProtest #civilLiberties #activism @palestine

"A year ago, the #ColumbiaPalestineEncampment sparked a national #studentMovement that eventually spread across the globe. As the #Trump administration wages war against university students and the institutions themselves, Francesco Anselmetti argues that in the US, the campus remains a crucial site in the struggle for #PalestinianLiberation."

https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/spring-again

#Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #USpol #StudentProtests #StateRepression #FreeSpeechOnCampus @palestine

State of Emergency in US #HigherEd

Alan Wald of UMichigan's Faculty and Staff for Justice in #Palestine discusses the climate of #politicalRepression directed at #PalestineSolidarity work and the parallels with earlier periods including the McCarthy and Red Scare eras

https://marxedproject.org/event/state-of-emergency-in-us-higher-education/

#Gaza #GazaSolidarity #StudentProtests #FacultyProtests #USpol #USpolitics #stateRepression #FreeSpeechOnCampus #deportations #civilLiberties #civilRights #censorship #AcademicFreedom @palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz_GaV6WD-E

#DaveNeal #RushHour

6.40min.mark: Trump still kvetching about #Greenland and locals have something to say about it #NoToColonisation

9.18 min. mark: #Canada 🇨🇦 basically said, fuck you. Bugger off USA #ElbowsUp

15.25min mark: #EduardoNunezGonsales (Cuba) doing the paperwork, etc 'doing it the right way', yet he was kidnapped.

16.44min mark: #RumeysaOzturk.
Dumb politicians kvetching about Hamas, but obviously there's no proof.

21.10 min mark: #YungseoChung sued U.S. govt and won. For now. #StopDeportations #FreeSpeech #FreeSpeechOnCampus #FuckMarcoRubio

Like the rest of us, #fascism pisses Dave off.

27.05 min mark: Neighbours with megaphones standing up against #ICE following #ICE around letting #immigrants know what their rights are. #AbolishICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz_GaV6WD-E

#DaveNeal #RushHour

6.40min.mark: Trump still kvetching about #Greenland and locals have something to say about it #NoToColonisation

9.18 min. mark: #Canada 🇨🇦 basically said, fuck you. Bugger off USA #ElbowsUp

15.25min mark: #EduardoNunezGonsales (Cuba) doing the paperwork, etc 'doing it the right way', yet he was kidnapped.

16.44min mark: #RumeysaOzturk.
Dumb politicians kvetching about Hamas, but obviously there's no proof.

21.10 min mark: #YungseoChung sued U.S. govt and won. For now. #StopDeportations #FreeSpeech #FreeSpeechOnCampus #FuckMarcoRubio

Like the rest of us, #fascism pisses Dave off.

27.05 min mark: Neighbours with megaphones standing up against #ICE following #ICE around letting #immigrants know what their rights are. #AbolishICE

"We have been saying for a year now that these charges of systemic antisemitism at #Columbia are obscuring real incidents of bias against both Jews and others, that they are part of a bad- faith right-wing attack on #higherEd, and that we are going to be powerless to defend ourselves against the #MAGA #Trump agenda. It turns out we were right.”

When They Came for #ColumbiaUniversity

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/trump-attacks-higher-education-columbia/

#USpol #USpolitics #FreeSpeechOnCampus #MahmoudKhalil #PalestineSolidarity @palestine

"According to the doctrine’s principles, judges should avoid ruling on whether or not #immigration laws are constitutional, even when it appears they are not."

The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against #MahmoudKhalil

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-insidious-doctrine-fueling-the-case-against-mahmoud-khalil/

#PlenaryPowerDoctrine #USlaw #immigrationLaw #USpol #USpolitics #deportations #massDeportations #immigrantRights #civilRights #civilLiberties #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #PalestineSolidarity #StateRepression #FreeMahmoudKhalil @palestine

"The Democratic Party, which campaigned on the existential threat #Trump posed to democracy, has offered little more than begrudging responses to acts of #repression that rival, if not surpass, those of the McCarthy era."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/guilt-by-association-jindia

#USpol #USpolitics #PalestineSolidarity #lawfare #StateRepression #StudentProtests #FreeSpeechOnCampus #SJP #CivilLiberties @palestine

"#MahmoudKhalil’s plight constitutes a test case in amending the Constitution by executive action, free from the safeguards that make amendment such a difficult process. Here the beachhead is a stateless Palestinian, targeted in his homeland for extermination, and now persecuted in his supposed place of refuge."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-abduction-of-mahmoud-khalil/

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #USpol #USpolitics #StudentProtests #PalestineSolidarity #CivilLiberties #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StateRepression @palestine

#CitationsNeeded pod | The Disappearance of #MahmoudKhalil and the Phony 'Campus Safety' Panic

"In this News Brief, we detail how Center-Left institutions and #media have cynically wielded 'lived experience' claptrap to assist #Trump's overtly fascistic crackdown on dissenting speech."

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-the-disappearance-of-mahmoud-khalil-and-the-phony-campus-safety-panic

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #USpol #USpolitics #PalestineSolidarity #StudentProtests #StateRepression #FreeSpeechOnCampus #TheEvilOfTwoLessers #tHeReSiSTaNCe @palestine

"#MahmoudKhalil’s detention is the result not just of the Trump administration’s agenda but of more than a year of moral panic around pro-Palestine protest."

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/15/mahmoud-khalil-is-not-safe/
https://archive.ph/JG0Uh

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #ColumbiaU #StudentProtests #PalestineSolidarity #USpol #USpolitics #StateRepression #FreeSpeechOnCampus @palestine

The Jewish Institutional Reaction to #MahmoudKhalil's Abduction

#JewishCurrents' Arielle Angel, Mari Cohen, & Alex Kane discuss how American Jewish groups have reacted to the arrest of the #PalestineSolidarity activist

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-jewish-institutional-reaction-to-mahmoud-khalils-abduction

#USpol #USpolitics #JewishAmericanPolitics #FreeMahmoudKhalil #StudentProtests #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StateRepression #CivilLiberties #Palestine #Gaza @palestine

"What led to the arrest of #MahmoudKhalil, a prominent pro-#Palestine activist at #ColumbiaUniversity? Although he is a United States permanent resident, Khalil is facing deportation. The #Trump administration says it's part of a broader effort to combat anti-Semitism, but critics see a chilling attack on political speech..."

https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/mahmoud-khalil-and-trump-s-war-on-pro-palestinian

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #PalestineSolidarity #StateRepression #USpol #USpolitics @palestine

#AmericanPrestige pod | The Arrest of #MahmoudKhalil w/ #SpencerAckerman

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/special-the-arrest-of-mahmoud-khalil-w-spencer-ackerman

Ackerman's piece @ Forever Wars : https://www.forever-wars.com/mahmoud-khalils-detention-is-a-war-on-terror-milestone/

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #PoliticalPrisoners #DHS #ICEdetention #StateRepression #USpol #USpolitics @palestine

"This gives me the immediate impression that the #Trump Administration is implementing the Esther Project as it pertains to the #Palestine movement and the Palestinian activists on college campuses..."

Profs. Hatem Bazian & Holly S. Cooper discuss #MahmoudKhalil’s abduction & the targeting of universities

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-march-12-2025/

#ProjectEsther #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #PalestineSolidarity #ICEdetention #USpol #DHS #StateRepression @palestine @DoomsdaysCW

"Please add your name to join #RashidaTlaib and her colleagues in Congress demanding the immediate release of political prisoner #MahmoudKhalil. He should be back home safely with his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant with their child."

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-mahmoud-khalils-immediate-release-from-dhs-custody/

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #PoliticalPrisoners #DHS #ICEdetention #StateRepression #USpol #USpolitics @palestine @israel

#JewishCurrents' Mari Cohen & Alex Kane host Emma Saltzberg of #DiasporaAlliance & Dylan Saba of #PalestineLegal to discuss the outlook for #StateRepression directed at the #PalestineSolidarity movement under the incoming #Trump administration, including #ProjectEsther and attacks on non-profit groups.

https://jewishcurrents.org/preparing-for-trumps-repression

#GazaSolidarity #FreeSpeech #FreeSpeechOnCampus #CampusActivism #StudentMovement #USpol #HR9495 #USpolitics #USForeignPolicy #censorship #Palestine #Gaza @palestine

Thurs Nov 14th @ 1pm ET 8pm Palestine

#Gaza In Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series

Leaving Zionism, Embracing Humanity | #RazSegal's Intellectual & Political Journey: Part 2 of 2

#RazSegal in conversation with #BassamHaddad

https://youtu.be/dR3SX5oauDM

#Palestine #PalestineQuestion #Israel #oPt #GenocideStudies #IHRA #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #FreeSpeechOnCampus #CampusActivism #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #Jadaliyya @palestine

#UniversityOfCalifornia #Faculty Groups File Landmark Unfair Labor Practices Complaint Against #UC Over UC’s Repression of #ActivismForPalestine

Anna Markowitz, Wendy Matsumura, and Annie McClanahan join #SpeakingOutOfPlace to discuss their faculty associations' complaint

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2024/10/16/university-of-california-faculty-groups-file-landmark-unfair-labor-practices-complaint-against-uc-over-ucs-repression-of-activism-for-palestine/

#FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #FacultyProtests #CampusActivism #StateRepression #AcademicFreedom #USpol #USpolitics #Gaza #Palestine #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity

@palestine

"Some have spoken of a #PalestinianException to #CampusFreeSpeech because of the sensitive accusations that have included both antisemitism and Islamophobia. But experts who focus on #AcademicFreedom say problems were brewing well before last Oct 7, speaking to six decades of radical change in #USHigherEducation." - #WillBunch

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/berkeley-60th-anniversary-campus-free-speech-20240926.html
https://archive.ph/o3VeM
#FreeSpeechOnCampus #StateRepression #StudentProtests #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #USpol #USpolitics @palestine

"Discussion of #Israel and #Palestine has long fallen into a special category. Some have called it 'the Palestine exception to #FreeSpeech.' #BrooklynCollege, like other universities, has weathered many controversies in this area." - #MashaGessen

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion/brooklyn-college-jewish-currents-gaza-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K04.U_kS.VD_aEd7NIv85&smid=url-share
#censorship #CUNY #FreeSpeechOnCampus #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #Gaza #JewishCurrents #USpol #USpolitics @palestine

George Mason's Faculty and Staff for Justice in #Palestine presents:

Resisting the Ratcheting Up of Repression in Academia and on Campus | Part 1

#EmmaiaGelman in conversation with #BassamHaddad and #BethanyLetiecq

https://youtu.be/ILsaYP433TQ

#Gaza #WarOnGaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #StudentProtests #FacultyProtests #AcademicFreedom #CampusActivism #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StateRepression #censorship #USpol #USpolitics @palestine

"#ThePalestineException opens as #CampusEncampments increase across the US in protest against #Israel’s war in #Gaza."

Documenting the Fight Against The #Palestine Exception: A Conversation w/ #Filmmakers #JanHaaken & #JenniferRuth

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2024/09/03/documenting-the-fight-against-the-palestine-exception-a-conversation-with-filmmakers-jan-haaken-and-jennifer-ruth/
#cinéma #documentary #cinéastes #StudentProtests #GazaSolidarityEncampments #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeechOnCampus #CampusActivism #USpol #USpolitics @palestine

trailer: https://youtu.be/0Uj71mtIQIY