Totalitarianism begins with attacks on universities. Administrators need to stand up before it’s too late
A tide of violence is once again sweeping Gaza, and as the ceasefire ends, it has never been more dangerous in the United States to speak out in solidarity with Palestinians.
The abduction and attempted deportation of U.S. permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil, who was targeted by the Trump administration for his activism on Palestine and snatched from his Columbia University residence by ICE, have sparked widespread fear.
This fear is further fueled by ongoing threats to university funding, crackdowns on activists and academics, and the imprisonment and attempted deportation of non-citizens.
It is now clear that universities are willing to fully cooperate with ICE agents and Trump’s national purge.
As Jewish faculty at Canadian universities, we watch with horror as this repression sweeps across the U.S. in the name of combating antisemitism. And we stand in solidarity with our U.S. colleagues facing this wave of xenophobic attacks.
U.S. President Donald Trump is directly attacking universities as houses of knowledge, learning, and truth.
Though incomparable to the scholasticide in Gaza, academic purges share the same objectives as bombing universities: the destruction of critical thought and scholarly traditions that have held societies to account for centuries, and the erasure of repositories of culture, research, and imagination. (more...)
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