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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Sep 1

Correct link here can be found here:

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Sep 1

The world's leading genocide scholars' association, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, has 500 members. It put a resolution on Gaza to its members, 86% of those who voted declared the following:

Read full resolution here: 🔗https://genocidescholars.org/films/uprising/

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is a good (long!!) newsletter covering many things related to academic freedom, with an NYU bias. I learn a ton every time this comes out.

NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

📰🧵Hot off the press! Issue #21 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine.

Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/08/28/a...

August 28, 2025. FSJP Roundup #21

FACULTY AND STAFF FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE (FSJP) ROUNDUP #21: August 28, 2025 This is the twenty-first issue of an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. As we wr…

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wordsbydumi.bsky.social @dumilm.bsky.social · Aug 28

Consistently one of the best publications on Palestine and Higher Ed 🫡

NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

📰🧵Hot off the press! Issue #21 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine.

Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/08/28/a...

August 28, 2025. FSJP Roundup #21

FACULTY AND STAFF FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE (FSJP) ROUNDUP #21: August 28, 2025 This is the twenty-first issue of an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. As we wr…

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

🗞NEWS: Canceling Palestinians at NYU Abu Dhabi

@amnesty.org published a report exposing numerous ways in which “authorities of the United Arab Emirates and the administration of New York University both acted to suppress and punish freedom of expression, peaceful assembly...

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

🗞 NEWS: The Silencing of Area Studies

NYU’s widely respected Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, which typically runs a vibrant programming schedule on issues related to the Middle East for both scholarly and public audiences, is having to do more with less this year.

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

🗞NEWS: Union Demands NYU Support International Contract Faculty

Contract Faculty United, the union of NYU’s 930 contract faculty (half of NYU’s full-time faculty), has demanded that NYU sponsor international contract faculty for permanent resident status.

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

🗞NEWS: AAUP v. Rubio

The federal trial in the lawsuit against the Trump administration filed by AAUP, the Middle East Studies Association, and three local AAUP chapters, including NYU’s, took place in July.

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

🗞NEWS: FSJP in Palestine

A delegation of faculty from FSJP chapters nation-wide has returned from a 10-day trip to Palestine. The delegation started off with eight members, including four from NYU, but two were denied entry at the border by Israeli border officials.

NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

📆 EVENTS

The Frontlines of Educator Resistance: In Defense of Academic Freedom Session 9

TODAY, Thursday, 28 August 2025, 3:00pm

Watch live: x.com/Jadaliyya and youtube.com/Jadaliyya

@jadaliyya.bsky.social

Jadaliyya (@jadaliyya) / X

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨 ACTIONS

Support Noncitizen Students on Your Syllabi

The NYU chapter of AAUP is recommending that faculty add a note about support and resources for noncitizen students to their syllabi.

NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

📰🧵Hot off the press! Issue #21 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine.

Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/08/28/a...

August 28, 2025. FSJP Roundup #21

FACULTY AND STAFF FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE (FSJP) ROUNDUP #21: August 28, 2025 This is the twenty-first issue of an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. As we wr…

facultyforpalestine.education

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: With Friends Like These...

🔗How Columbia University is tearing itself apart to please Trump observer.co.uk/news/interna...

🔗 Columbia University president resigns as Trump administration cracks down on campus antisemitism
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Columbia University president resigns as Trump administration cracks down on campus antisemitism

Katrina Armstrong had replaced Columbia’s former president, Minouche Shafik, who resigned in August.

www.politico.com

NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: With Friends Like These...

🔗 Who is Behind Canary Mission Website Targeting Pro-BDS Activists?

forward.com/news/320473/...

Who is Behind Canary Mission Website Targeting Pro-BDS Activists?

A shadowy website that posts dossiers on pro-Palestinian student activists has grown rapidly in recent months, while continuing to zealously guard the identity of its own staff and backers. Since a Fo...

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: With Friends Like These...

🔗 Exposing Canary Mission: A Resource for College and University Leaders

mesana.org/advocacy/com...

Middle East Studies Association

MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom has issued a resource guide for college and university leaders on actions they can take to counteract a secretive, political organization called Canary Mission tha...

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: With Friends Like These…

🔗 Penn trustee’s family foundation donated $100,000 to Canary Mission, 2023 tax form shows

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Penn trustee’s family foundation donated $100,000 to Canary Mission, 2023 tax form shows

A 2023 tax document shows that Canary Mission — a website that “may be providing road maps for ICE” — received $100,000 from the spouse of a Penn trustee’s family foundation.

www.thedp.com

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: With Friends Like These…

🔗Pro-Israel Group That Attacked UPenn Was Funded by Family of UPenn Trustee theintercept.com/2025/04/02/p...

Pro-Israel Group That Attacked UPenn Was Funded by Family of UPenn Trustee

The University of Pennsylvania has been a target of Canary Mission, a pro-Israel “blacklist” group. Turns out the call was coming from inside the house.

theintercept.com

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: With Friends Like These…

As crackdowns on universities continue, troubling revelations have emerged about the actions of university trustees behind the scenes. 🧵

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: AAUP v. Rubio

There are promising updates on the lawsuit filed by
@aaup.bsky.social, @mesa1966.bsky.social, + 3 AAUP chapters, against the Trump administration’s arrest, detention, & deportation of students & faculty for their pro-Palestine speech. mesana.org/news/2025/04...

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: Is NYU Handing Over Malicious and Libelous Data on Our Students?

🔗 Over 465 NYU faculty and staff are demanding that University leaders commit to expunging potentially harmful disciplinary data on student protestors: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: That’s a Lot of Words to Say “Keffiyeh”

🔗 GSAS bans ‘decorated’ attire at grad ceremonies nyunews.com/news/2025/04...
🔗 Guest Essay: Why you should decorate your graduation cap nyunews.com/opinion/gues...

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: Law Students Rise Up (by Sitting Down) Again

🔗 3rd wave of NYU law students launched a sit-in outside the office of law school dean Troy McKenzie instagram.com/p/DJuPCK8AkC...

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰 News: NYU’s Latest Genocide-Denying Attack on a Student

🔗Logan Rozos's speech: x.com/BTnewsroom/s...

🔗Faculty and staff objecting to this appalling disciplinary action: sign if you have not already. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 Actions:

Sign the letter to NYU senior leaders demanding the reversal of their decision to withhold a diploma from a Gallatin undergrad for his commencement speech condemning US participation in Israeli genocide.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NYU Faculty and Staff in Support of Gallatin Student Speaker

To: Evan R.Chesler, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, New York University Linda Mills, President Gigi Dopico, Provost Victoria Rosner, Gallatin Dean May 15, 2025 We are faculty and staff members at N...

docs.google.com

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · May 19

📰📷Hot off the press! Issue #20 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. May 19, 2025.

Click this link to read: facultyforpalestine.education/2025/05/19/m...

May 19, 2025. FSJP Roundup #20

FACULTY AND STAFF FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE (FSJP) ROUNDUP #20: May 19, 2025 This is the twentieth issue of an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. As we write, o…

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