Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A California District Court hearing on was held on Wednesday, December 17, over an injunction sought by plaintiffs represented by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) against a new law, California AB 715, which is supposedly intended to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism. But it no more does […]
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Academic Freedom
Trump Administration Concedes U.S. Researchers may Talk with Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Despite Sanctions
Middle East Studies Association of North America | – ( MESA Press Release ) – WASHINGTON—In response to a letter sent by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the Treasury Department last week confirmed that a scholarly organization—the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)—may hold an event with U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese even […]
Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the University of Arkansas regarding the removal of Professor Shirin Saeidi as director of the King Fahd Center President Jay B. Silveria The University of Arkansas chancell@uark.edu Dear President Silveria, Chancellor Robinson and Dean Raines: We write […]
Rebuking UC Berkeley over Suspension of Lecturer for Palestine Advocacy
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the University of California, Berkeley, expressing concern about the suspension of Lecturer Peyrin Kao Chancellor Rich Lyons Office of the Chancellor University of California, Berkeley chancellor@berkeley.edu Benjamin Hermalin Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost University of California, Berkeley hermalin@berkeley.edu […]
MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini
Middle East Studies Association | – Update: Dr. Abedini has been released from detention. The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) was disturbed to learn of the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini, the Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Dr. Abedini was detained on November 22 by U.S. Immigration and […]
In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom
Juan says: I’m honored to have an essay in this volume on threats to academic freedom and to free speech in the United States since 2023. I look at the crisis as it unfolded in is first months. All of the essays are urgent reading during America’s current Third Red Scare. I have been in […]
Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism
By Mattea Kramer ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Rooting out terrorism and antisemitism was the supposed reason that plainclothed ICE agents arrested doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, after she coauthored an op-ed calling on Tufts University to divest from companies with ties to Israel due to the killing and starvation of […]
Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance
Academic freedom in the US is under siege as never in our nation’s history. Convicted felon Donald Trump is doing all he can to blackmail great universities and education systems into conforming to his model of indoctrinated, far right-wing education. And it’s happening in places one might not expect, namely California. A phony veil of […]
California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On October 7, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 715 into law, which criminalizes any criticism of Israel as an act of anti-Semitism, punishable by criminal sanctions. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) notes that this bill was opposed by “teachers’ unions, civil rights groups, and education advocates […]
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