Showing posts with label Academic Freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Academic Freedom. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

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The Palestine issue was slated to include a dozen research articles, essays and other writings on topics ranging from education in Israel-...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Don’t just blame Trump [and Republicans] – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdow. Both parties are responsible for the mess facing Columbia and other institutions

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‘Virtually every aspect of the Trump administration’s posture rests on track laid by the Biden administration and the Democratic party.’ ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Israel is banning Al Jazeera, America is banning TikTok. We know why: What the two laws have in common is desire to silence Israel-Gaza war critics.

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‘The TikTok law, like the Al Jazeera one, isn’t limited to its initial target.’ Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA Seth Stern   T he White Hous...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Razia Iqbal: I teach democracy at Princeton. Student protesters are getting an education like no other- Students across the US are forging bonds in the face of brutal power structures. You might say they’ve already won

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 "What’s clear in this international, student-led movement that continues to defy college and state authorities in the face of arrest ...
Friday, May 3, 2024

Academic freedom and free speech are essential. Universities must protect them. - ACLU's Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests

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five basic guardrails to ensure freedom of speech and academic freedom while protecting against discriminatory harassment and disruptive con...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

2024 USC canceled Asna Tabassum's valedictorian speech after receiving a wave of hate online for supporting Palestine.... please read her statement in full

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Asna Tabassum: "Although this should have been a time of celebration for my family, friends, professor...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Criticism of Israeli State Policies Is NOT ANTISEMITISM

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 "Globally, scholars who criticize Israel are facing an increasingly uphill battle to protect their academic freedom . Redefining antis...
Friday, October 3, 2014

My Letter to the NYTimes RE Steven Salaita and the Quagmire of Academic Freedom

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Academic Freedom... Illustration credit: Google Images revealing  line drawing by Tim E. Ogline who has "always sought to draw on th...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Excellent letter published in the Baltimore Sun: Academic freedom and Israel by Carole C. Burnett

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A detail from The Sacrifice of Isaac, by Jacopo da Empoli. Scientists have proved that the camels in the story of Abraham and Isaac are ...