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The immediacy of the lawsuit tomorrow as well as the limited space of a Mondoweiss article here do not allow me to elaborate on each aspect but I will do so in the book I am writing on this case.
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The developments of the Zionist campaign, the collusion of SFSU administrators and cooptation of others presents us with a classical case of several social movement phenomena such as power dynamics and propaganda wars (or hasbara in the case of Israel) the bystander dilemma that my sister/comrade Simona Sharoni has theorized, the free rider problem that scholars of the Civil Rights Movements have amply discussed, and the workings of internalized colonialism that Frantz Fanon has highlighted. The Spirit of ‘68 as I called it on July 14, and July 21, 2017, has been our inspiration to found and build the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies program at SFSU as a site for justice-centered knowledge production that is community accountable in our scholarship, pedagogy, and advocacy.Įvery single accusation the Lawfare lawsuit made is not only factually false but it does not hold the light if we apply logical analysis and rely on knowledge of social movement organizing and activism that has been long studied in disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies.
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The Lawsuit once again smears me with false accusations of anti-Semitism over my criticism of SFSU President’s welcoming Zionists to our campus and my demand that President Wong retract his statement and instead respect the social justice mission and legacy of SFSU especially as we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Student Strike, the longest in the history of US student movement. The Lawsuit falsely alleges that I am the mastermind of student protest against the racist mayor of occupied Jerusalem, Nir Barakat, on April 6, 2016, an event of which I was unaware, and of organizing the Know Your Rights (KYR) Fair on February 28, 2017, when I was out of town. Lawfare filed its amended complaint on March 29th, on behalf of students from SF Hillel whom I have never met nor had in any of my classes. Judge Orrick dismissed Lawfare’s second attempt on November 8, 2017, and issued his thoughtful and detailed 38 page order on March 9, 2018. This is Lawfare’s third attempt to sue me. Tomorrow, my lawyers and I will appear before Judge Orrick in Federal Court in San Francisco to once again challenge a frivolous lawsuit filed by the Lawfare Project, which describes itself as “an arm of the pro-Israel community” and whose executive Director, Brooke Goldstein, promised to “inflict massive punishment” on those of us who dare research, teach or advocate for justice in/for Palestine. Most recently the Zionist campaign sought to deprive me of my livelihood by instigating disciplinary measures against me by the SFSU Administration and CSU Chancellor’s office and by tightening the screws around me or as a dear colleague put it, “death by 10,000 cuts.”
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The campaign sought to silence me and isolate me from my colleagues on campus by making me radioactive distract and derail me from my scholarship and destroy my reputation in the academy dismantle the AMED Studies Program criminalize Palestine justice-centered campus activism and ring alarm bells among my family over my safety and well-being. Secondly, I want to stress that my radio silence for the past period since Lawfare filed its amended lawsuit is not due to my being afraid –only oppressors fear the truth-though the Zionist campaign has certainly intensified in the last few months beyond where it was before. History has taught us that this is how social movements organize, mobilize and defeat bullies whether it is on campus grounds, orchestrated lobbies or authoritarian states.
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It would have never been possible for any of us individually and collectively to continue resisting this onslaught if it were not for having you in our corner.
Sfsu bsu email update#
In this article, Professor Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, founding director and senior scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program at San Francisco State University offers an update and critical analysis of the struggle for scholarship, pedagogy and advocacy on justice for/in Palestine as part and parcel of the indivisibility of justice.Īt the outset I want to reiterate my gratitude to everyone who has stood by me and us, faculty, student, staff and the broader community of justice at San Francisco State University in our struggle against silencing and for justice in/for Palestine as part and parcel of the indivisibility of justice.