Academics Have a Responsibility to Speak Out Against Palestine Repression

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Academics Have a Responsibility to Speak Out Against Palestine Repression
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MIT students and faculty gather outside of the campus to protest the university's involvement with Israel and show support for Palestine on September 13, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.MIT students and faculty gather outside of the campus to protest the university's involvement with Israel and show support for Palestine on September 13, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.In times of crisis, academics must be public intellectuals.

Following spring 2024 demonstrations by pro-Palestinian activists against Israel’s destructive attack on Gaza, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered an— that CUNY was poorly prepared to address antisemitism by students and faculty on its campuses and new procedures were needed — were widely covered in the news media.

The situation is even worse at other universities and in other states. On October 8, 2023, the day after the deadly attack by Hamas on Israel, theblaming Israel for the “unfolding violence” because “millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison.” Theto the student statement was immediate and virulent. Politicians and university donors called for severe punishment of individuals and banning the group.

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