After faculty members upheld a grievance filed by Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, SFSU President rejects decision and sides with tech giants on silencing of Palestinian voices. In an outrageous and insulting decision, President Lynn Mahoney of SFSU has disregarded the legitimate reprimand of a faculty panel that recommended redress to Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, founding director of …
In February of 2020, SFSU President Lynn Mahoney met with a new group of SF City Muslims presumably to address endemic forms of Islamophobia. In this meeting, President Mahoney sought to enlist Muslim representatives in undermining the already constituted Friends of AMED (Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies), a broad-based body of community advocates, …
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, director and senior scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies Program at San Francisco State University has just scored another victory toward building AMED Studies and the protection of her Arab, Muslim and Palestinian students as well as herself. The Superior Court of the State of California affirmed …
July 5, 2020 California Department of Education 1430 N Street Sacramento, CA 95814-5901 Dear California Department of Education: We write on behalf of the California Scholars for Academic Freedom with regard to the attacks on the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) draft. California Scholars for Academic Freedom is a group of over 200 scholars …
Dear California Department of Education: We write on behalf of the California Scholars for Academic Freedom with regard to the attacks on the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) draft. California Scholars for Academic Freedom is a group of over 200 scholars throughout California committed to fighting all forms of racism, xenophobia, and antisemitism. We are scholars, …
Dear Chancellor White and President Mahoney: We, the California Scholars for Academic Freedom,** a group of over two hundred scholars throughout California, write to you today about our concerns over the recent cancellation of two Palestine-specific classes in the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) program at SFSU that are scheduled for …
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We are thrilled that Dr. Abdulhadi received this major award by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) . The 2020 Georgina M. Smith Award is presented “to a person who has provided exceptional leadership in the past year in improving the status of academic women or in advancing collective bargaining and through that work …
Dear Friend, As the end of year approaches we are preparing for the next stage of our fight at SFSU to defend Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diapsporas (AMED) studies, and critical Palestine scholarship and campus activism. We need your help to win this fight by donating and encouraging your contacts near …
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Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi and the Campaign support this petition to defend ethnic studies in California. We urge supporters to sign on at the link: https://www.change.org/p/defend-ethnic-studies-for-our-students-save-our-curriculum-at-the-ca-dept-of-ed-now?use_react=false Students of color deserve to see themselves in school curriculum. The fact that they don’t is a problem. For 50+ years there has been a movement for racial justice and equity in …
For Immediate Release August 6, 2019 Contact: Behnam Gharagozil: [ben.gharagozli@gmail.com] Mark Kleiman: [markkleiman@gmail.com] Saliem Shehadeh: [saliem.shehadeh@gmail.com] Ahlam Muhtaseb: [ahlam.muhtaseb@gmail.com] Rosalind Petchesky: [rpetches@gmail.com] The International Campaign to Defend Professor Rabab Abdulhadi condemns the lies, fabrications, and smears by Fox and Friends and Brooke Goldstein, the Executive Director of Lawfare Project. The five-minute interview is a display of unethical journalism, …