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Threats to Free Speech on College Campuses [Katie Halper Show]

Universities across the United States have been targets of censorship campaigns by external special interest groups seeking to quash debate about Palestinian human rights, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and international law violations by the state of Israel. Muslim, Arab and Palestinian students and faculty are most frequently targeted as political speech is mislabeled as antisemitism. Professor Sahar Aziz joined Mitchell Plitnick to discuss this troubling anti-American trend as well as their groundbreaking report “Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine Israel Discourse” on the Katie … Continue reading

Israel-Gaza: Does Islamophobia play a part in US foreign policy? [UpFront]

As the war in Gaza rages on, the death toll keeps increasing and residents face starvation. Despite the heavy civilian toll, the United States keeps voicing its strong support for Israel. Is there a double standard when it comes to Palestine? And why do some in the US seem to conflate solidarity with Palestinians with anti-Semitism, as explained in the report “Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine Israel Discourse” published by the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights. On UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks… Continue reading

Why pro-Palestinian demonstrations are popping up on college campuses [Scripps]

“We’ve seen quite a bit of sympathy for Palestinian civilians,” said Sahar Aziz, a law school professor and director of the Center for Security, Race and Rights at Rutgers University. “They recognize that Palestinians have grievances. Many of these young people don’t rely on formal educational institutions for information. And this is one of those topics where they rely heavily on things that are on the internet and that are on social media.” Aziz also wrote the book “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.” Social media, combined with… Continue reading

Muslim women in the West in the crosshairs of Zionists, white ‘feminists’ [Al Jazeera]

At the forefront of numerous grassroots, intellectual, and political movements opposing Israel’s ongoing war crimes, in the United States and elsewhere in the staunchly pro-Israel West, are Muslim women. Courageous Palestinian, Arab, South Asian, and Black women are leading mass protests, political action campaigns, teach-ins at universities, fundraisers for humanitarian aid, and writing letters to university presidents, demanding they protect their Palestinian and Muslim students from doxing, harassment, and intimidation by Zionist organizations on and off campus.These Muslim women’s civic and political engagement is almost always met with attacks on… Continue reading

Why Can’t We Humanize Palestinians? [#RaceClass]

The Israeli government responded to the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 by indiscriminately bombing residential towers, denying water, food, fuel, electricity and medical supplies to over 2.3 million Palestinian civilians living under occupation in Gaza. Despite the practices constituting what many legal experts conclude are genocidal, the Israeli government has received the full support of President Biden and the U.S. Congress. Meanwhile, the American media humanizes only Israeli civilian victims while failing to report on the lives of 11,000 Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli military and missing… Continue reading

She was Fired for Being Publicly Pro-Palestinian [Philadelphia Inquirer]

“This particular case is going to the heart of the American fundamental right to politically dissent, to express your beliefs,” said Sahar Aziz, a Rutgers Law professor and author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom. “And when you belong to a group that’s not afforded those beliefs at equal levels as everyone else, that’s evidence of discrimination against that group — but also a threat to those American values.” Flip the situation to a member of any other marginalized group speaking in support of human rights… Continue reading

Cornel West’s Resignation: When Anti-Black and Anti-Palestinian Racism Converge [New Arab]

It is no secret that Palestine is taboo in US academia. Harvard’s recent denial of tenure to renowned race scholar Cornel West is the most recent instance. For decades, Arab American faculty have faced tenure denial or termination; students have been reprimanded and some even criminally charged; and Middle East studies programmes are under constant threat of defunding. All based on the fallacious claim that teaching, research, and activism that brings to light Israel’s rampant violations of Palestinian human rights is axiomatically anti-Semitic. Big donors, alumni, and well-funded legal advocacy groups unabashedly command… Continue reading

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