Eighty scholars from the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) today released an open letter to universities and other institutions, demanding they retract their statements endorsing Israeli genocide against Palestinians.
During the past two weeks of Israeli attacks on Gaza, university administrators across the United States have released a wave of statements of support for Israeli military violence, stripped of references to the prior eight decades of Israeli colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and ignoring or directly endorsing the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza’s “open-air prison.”
University administrators’ anti-Palestinian statements–which carry institutional weight but are generated by a small set of university officials–have run in stark contrast to the thousands of global scholars who have signed letters denouncing genocide and apartheid, and tens of thousands of students joining campus protests to demand Palestinian freedom.
As scholars and students who advocate against genocide and apartheid are doxxed, harassed, and fired, ICSZ scholars join others worldwide to denounce violence enacted by academic institutions, as well as by states.
