Resist Congressional efforts to silence free speech on Palestine

(This genocidal effort by the zionists in Israel has soured the youth against Israel by exposing them for what they are and their propagandists fully understand the implications of such a heel-turn. So, rather than stopping their actions, instead they turn to their hasbara teams to put pressure on school administrators via threats of labeling them as anti-Semites in order to get them to impose strict free speech violations on these very same young people. As if stopping campus demonstrations thru coercion will somehow fix the problem rather than making it worse. Fucking stupid.)

from Mondoweiss

U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a letter on March 27 to officials at Rutgers University castigating “senior administrators, faculty, staff, academic departments and centers, and student organizations” for creating “a pervasive climate of antisemitism,” and an alleged “failure to protect Jewish students.” 

This letter is a small part of a larger assault on progressive pedagogy and activism at college campuses which is currently sweeping the country. The House Committee, aiming to silence campus supporters of Palestine, has already targeted some of the nation’s most high-profile private universities and is now turning its attention to public institutions, starting with Rutgers University.

The Rutgers Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) chapter emphatically rejects this transparent attempt to defame growing support for Palestinian rights at Rutgers and across the country as anti-Jewish. We affirm, moreover, our steadfast support for the Rutgers faculty and students who have been maliciously targeted by Foxx in her letter — including Professors Noura Erakat and Sahar Aziz, the Center for Security, Race, and Rights (CSRR), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and others — and call on all Rutgers faculty, staff and alumni, and, above all, administrators to resist this blatant attempt to silence free speech and curtail academic freedom at New Jersey’s flagship university...

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