These are the top-level findings of a poll conducted by the National Iranian American Council and YouGov of views of Iranian-Americans. However, note that it was conducted before the Israel-Iran 12-Day War that began on June 12, so some views may have changed. NIAC is the most sensible and best organized of the Iranian-American community […]
2025 Emergency National Statement to University and College Presidents from Faculty
New England Scholars Speak / Action Network US Scholars: Speak Up for Liberty and Justice NOW Public Domain. Photo by Nataraj Munoli: https://www.pexels.com/photo/statue-of-liberty-66709/ March 2025 An Urgent Message to University and College Presidents Across the United States At this dangerous juncture for the future of academic freedom, free speech, and due process on all our […]
Free Online Films on Palestine
A colleague writes to the University of Michigan Academic Freedom Network: In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. These are links to films you can view and share. This is not an endorsement of all the views expressed, but […]
Protesting to Columbia University over the Unlawful Detention of Mahmoud Khalil
CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM March 11, 2025Katrina Armstrong, PresidentColumbia UniversityDaniel Abebe, DeanColumbia School of Law Dear President Armstrong and Dean Abebe: We are writing on behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom, a group of over two-hundred scholars from campuses across California, to call upon you to demand the immediate release from ICE custody […]
We, alumni recipients of the MLK Spirit Award, return our awards and urge the University to divest
By Anna Dang and 65 other MLK Spirit Award Recipients | – ( Michigan Daily ) – We, the undersigned, are alumni recipients of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit Award at the University of Michigan. In January of this year, the University awarded recent alum Salma Hamamy the MLK Spirit Award in recognition of […]
Biden lost the Vote of this Pastor over Gaza. Harris must earn it Back
( New Jersey Star-Ledger ) – I cannot see President Biden without seeing 40,000 dead Gazans. He rightly stepped aside after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump, but he continues to lose a far more disastrous debate with Israel’s Prime Minister, weakening the basic principles of US foreign policy. Alongside his humiliating failure to achieve […]
Rupture and Repair: A report by the Stanford Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian Communities Committee
May 2024 Rupture and Repair is published in pdf format here. Below I excerpt a couple of pages in html with the permission of the authors. This report details a substantial rupture of trust between students, staff, and faculty in the Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian (MAP) communities and Stanford in academic year 2023-24. These communities […]
Report of the Independent International Commission of violations of international human rights law (IHRL), international humanitarian law (IHL) and possible international crimes committed by all parties between 7 October and 31 December 2023
Advance unedited version Distr.: General 27 May 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty sixth session 18 June–12 July 2024 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Report of the Independent International […]
Cambridge-Trained Physician Back from Gaza: “There’s a very dark side to the Israeli State”
Moosa Qureshi, The Watermelon Reports. (Moosa Qureshi is a British National Health Service Haematology Consultant, Award-winning Legal Campaigner, PhD Cancer Science, LLB Hons, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.) The Watermelon Reports Video: “War Crimes Or Not? British Surgeon’s Testimony from Gaza” Computer generated transcript from YouTube, edited by ChatGPT 4. I tried to check it a […]
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