Israeli Academics Face McCarthyistic Campaign

The Israel Police are weighing whether to open an investigation against Tel Aviv University Dr. Anat Matar, a leading member of Academia for Equality. saying her online eulogizing on Tuesday, April 9, the late Palestinian prisoner Walid Daka may constitute “support of and incitement to terror.” Matar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy,…

With the Suspension of Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Israeli Academia is Entering the Abyss

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, suspended Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian on Tuesday, March 12, for denouncing Israel’s deadly war in Gaza during an interview. Shalhoub-Kevorkian had been under pressure to resign from the university since late October, when she signed a call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “Since the war began, Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian has expressed herself in a…

Israeli Academic Institutions Persecute Arab Students for Social Media Posts

Israeli universities and colleges have initiated an unprecedented number of disciplinary proceedings, suspensions, and even expulsions of Arab-Palestinian students, citizens of Israel, based on their private social media posts, often before any hearings take place. Additionally, they have demanded the immediate evacuation of some students from their dormitories. The academic institutions allege that the students’…

400 Professors Demand Halt to Disciplinary Action against Hadash Activist

More than 400 Israeli university faculty are demanding that disciplinary action taken by Ben-Gurion University against a student who quoted the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish during a campus ceremony marking Nakba Day be reversed. The university’s disciplinary court convicted the student of disobeying campus authorities by using the word “shahid” (martyr) during the ceremony, but…