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 …
California Scholars for Academic Freedom Letter of Concern for AMED Program at SFSU Read More »
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, …
Wednesday, February 27 6:00 pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue, Room 5414 (5th Floor) at 5th Ave and 34th St New York City Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2307168412628778/ In 2017-2018, Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, her legal team and a very broad-based movement of Palestine solidarity activists and allies fought a harrowing battle to stop efforts by the Lawfare …
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Please visit the online petition link to sign on to this important statement against racism and Islamophobia at San Francisco State University. Concerned SFSU community members, including Prof. Abdulhadi, will present this petition at the Academic Senate on Tuesday, Feb. 19. Sign on here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/a-call-for-accountability-and-transparency-sfsu-religiousholidays-lists-insults-muslims-palestinians-jews The undersigned students, staff, faculty, administrators, alumni and concerned community members …
Join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1938914146203580/ Join us on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 6:30pm to hear Professor Rabab Abdulhadi and her legal team, who will speak about the recent attacks against her at San Francisco State University. Don Tamaki will address the context for how current legal attacks intersect with the historic Korematsu case that upheld …
August 7: Panel to Support Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi and Justice in Palestine Read More »