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Federal judge rules to move forward with Abdulhadi’s lawsuit against SFSU amidst death threats and continued university harassment. Over 500 organizations and individuals around the world call on SFSU and CSU in support of Abdulhadi

July 18, 2020

Statement August 22, 2019 The International Campaign to Defend Professor Rabab Abdulhadi defend.rabab.abdulhadi@gmail.com FB@DefendProfAbdulhadi   Federal judge rules to move forward with Abdulhadi’s lawsuit against SFSU amidst death threats and continued university harassment. Over 500 organizations and individuals around the world call on SFSU and CSU in support of Abdulhadi   Over 500 organizations and …

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Professor Rabab Abdulhadi Moves To Dismiss Frivolous “Lawfare” Suit That Targets Campus Advocacy for Palestinian Rights

November 7, 2017

JOINT PRESS RELEASE Behnam (Ben) Gharagozli Law Offices of Ben Gharagozli Attorney for Professor Rabab Abdulhadi Mark Kleiman Law Office of Mark Allen Kleiman Attorney for Professor Rabab Abdulhadi Contact: Benham Gharagozli, ben.gharagozli@gmail.com, (661) 607-4665 Mark Kleiman, mkleiman@quitam.org, (310) 709-8924 Dylan Fahoome, Palestine Legal, media@palestinelegal.org, (312) 547-0766 August 21, 2017, San Francisco, CA – On Monday, San Francisco State …

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National Lawyers Guild International Statement in Support of Palestinian Professor Rabab Abdulhadi

November 7, 2017

The original statement is available on the NLG International website: Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi of San Francisco State University (SFSU), along with several campus administrators, is named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by the Lawfare Project on June 19, 2017. The lawsuit makes the unsubstantiated claim that the SFSU College of Ethnic Studies, created …

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Black for Palestine Letter to President Wong and Cal State Board of Trustees: Protect the General Union of Palestine Students, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas program, and Professor Rabab Abdulhadi

November 7, 2017

The following open letter is available at the Black4Palestine website: 7/17/2017 Dear President Wong and CSU Board of Trustees: ​ We are writing on behalf of Black for Palestine, a national network of Black activists and organizers committed to supporting the Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom, justice, peace and self-determination. We integrate our work around Palestine …

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USACBI stands with Professor Rabab Abdulhadi against racist and Islamophobic attacks and intimidation

November 7, 2017

The original statement can be found at the USACBI website: The USACBI Organizing Collective stands in solidarity with USACBI Advisory Board member and San Francisco State University (SFSU) Professor Rabab Abdulhadi and with the members of the SFSU General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) as they undergo intimidation, defamation, and attacks by the right-wing Zionist organization, The …

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Letter from the Middle East Studies Association of North America

November 7, 2017

The original text of this letter is available on the MESA NA website:  Dr. Leslie E. Wong President, San Francisco State University president@sfsu.edu Dr. Timothy P. White Chancellor, California State University twhite@calstate.edu Dear President Wong and Chancellor White: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee …

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Open Letter by California Scholars for Academic Freedom

November 7, 2017

The original Open Letter is available at the CS4AF website: June 28, 2017 Dr. Leslie Wong, President San Francisco State University president@sfsu.edu CSU Board of Trustees lhernandez@calstate.edu Dear President Wong and CSU Board of Trustees: We write on behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom (cs4af)* to express opposition to the ongoing defamation, intimidation, and …

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December 12 Legal Update

July 18, 2020

As of December 12th, we’ve raised 50 percent of our current goal of $100,000 for legal costs to defeat Lawfare’s frivolous lawsuits and build the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies program (AMED) at San Francisco State University. We promised you that we would defeat Lawfare. We did it. We promised you that we would …

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UAW Local 2865 Letter of Support for Professor Rabab Abdulhadi

November 7, 2017

This letter is available at the UAW Local 2865 website: As educators, workers, and students of the University of California we are disturbed by recent developments on the SFSU campus: 1) On October 14, 2016, several racist and Islamophobic posters were plastered on the SFSU campus smearing SFSU Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, accusing her of terrorism …

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