The "Palestine exception" to academic freedom and free speech on campus is spreading, and those who value universities and their principles should fight against it regardless of their views on the conflicts in the Middle East.
Political theorist Jodi Dean has been removed from the classroom at Hobart & William Smith for an extramural essay celebrating the October 7 attacks.
Extramural political speech is, categorically, protected by academic freedom and H&WS is absolutely wrong here.
Extramural political speech is, categorically, protected by academic freedom and H&WS is absolutely wrong here.
April 14, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Genuine Q:
why should #Hamas (a democratically elected party with a miltary wing, Al-Qassam Brigades) disarm, regardless of the #IllegalOccupation (which it has a legal right to resist under #InternationalLaw)?
Other countries have armies & miltaries. Why shouldn't #Palestine?
#PalestineException
why should #Hamas (a democratically elected party with a miltary wing, Al-Qassam Brigades) disarm, regardless of the #IllegalOccupation (which it has a legal right to resist under #InternationalLaw)?
Other countries have armies & miltaries. Why shouldn't #Palestine?
#PalestineException
October 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Genuine Q:
why should #Hamas (a democratically elected party with a miltary wing, Al-Qassam Brigades) disarm, regardless of the #IllegalOccupation (which it has a legal right to resist under #InternationalLaw)?
Other countries have armies & miltaries. Why shouldn't #Palestine?
#PalestineException
why should #Hamas (a democratically elected party with a miltary wing, Al-Qassam Brigades) disarm, regardless of the #IllegalOccupation (which it has a legal right to resist under #InternationalLaw)?
Other countries have armies & miltaries. Why shouldn't #Palestine?
#PalestineException
Trump Wants Immigrants on U.S. Soil to Hand Over Social Media Accounts to Apply for Citizenship
Sounds like the Trump Administration wants to expand the current #PalestineException to free speech through an immigrant exception to free speech on the way to an everyone exception to free speech!
Sounds like the Trump Administration wants to expand the current #PalestineException to free speech through an immigrant exception to free speech on the way to an everyone exception to free speech!
Trump Wants Immigrants on U.S. Soil to Hand Over Social Media Accounts to Apply for Citizenship
Last time Trump demanded social media handles for citizenship, green card, and visa applicants, it was only for immigrants outside the U.S.
theintercept.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Trump Wants Immigrants on U.S. Soil to Hand Over Social Media Accounts to Apply for Citizenship
Sounds like the Trump Administration wants to expand the current #PalestineException to free speech through an immigrant exception to free speech on the way to an everyone exception to free speech!
Sounds like the Trump Administration wants to expand the current #PalestineException to free speech through an immigrant exception to free speech on the way to an everyone exception to free speech!
"Thought-leaders do not come about through
meaningful disobedience" - Steven Salaita
#PalestineException
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
meaningful disobedience" - Steven Salaita
#PalestineException
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
November 29, 2024 at 10:25 PM
"Thought-leaders do not come about through
meaningful disobedience" - Steven Salaita
#PalestineException
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
meaningful disobedience" - Steven Salaita
#PalestineException
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Very telling insight into the #PalestineException as it plays out amongst non-academic folks: people I talk to in non-work life know what #Israel is doing is wrong & that #BBC is complicit but can't say why 🍉
For info, I'm doing a #LiteratureReview for societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/challenges/t...
For info, I'm doing a #LiteratureReview for societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/challenges/t...
SocietalChallenge
societal-challenges.open.ac.uk
August 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Very telling insight into the #PalestineException as it plays out amongst non-academic folks: people I talk to in non-work life know what #Israel is doing is wrong & that #BBC is complicit but can't say why 🍉
For info, I'm doing a #LiteratureReview for societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/challenges/t...
For info, I'm doing a #LiteratureReview for societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/challenges/t...
#Canada #Law #legalsystem #JusticeSystem #PalestineException #lawyers #Activists #FreedomOfSpeech #misinformation #FreePalestine #LawfareProject #Courts #students #HumanRights
youtu.be/mwkhDSeebaA?...
youtu.be/mwkhDSeebaA?...
In Courts of Law, Supporters of Palestine Are Fighting - and Winning
YouTube video by Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris
youtu.be
July 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Great article about the danger's and creation of the narrative of "university neutrality" #academicfreedom, #PalestineException #institutionalneutrality
ubyssey.ca/opinion/ubc-...
ubyssey.ca/opinion/ubc-...
Opinion: UBC's Palestine Exception — how re-interpreting the University Act enabled a lawsuit
The University Act was never intended to compel “institutional neutrality.” It was the Bacon administration that helped cultivate and disseminate a “perverse interpretation” of the statute, paving the...
ubyssey.ca
June 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Great article about the danger's and creation of the narrative of "university neutrality" #academicfreedom, #PalestineException #institutionalneutrality
ubyssey.ca/opinion/ubc-...
ubyssey.ca/opinion/ubc-...
#Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff, author of this piece, is full of shit.
Last Fall, Cornell targeted a Black Muslim international student for simply being present at a protest, an act of repression Kotlikoff was fully behind.
#DARVO #PalestineException
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
Last Fall, Cornell targeted a Black Muslim international student for simply being present at a protest, an act of repression Kotlikoff was fully behind.
#DARVO #PalestineException
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
Opinion | Universities Should Not be Afraid of Contentious Ideas (Gift Article)
Higher education cannot cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff, author of this piece, is full of shit.
Last Fall, Cornell targeted a Black Muslim international student for simply being present at a protest, an act of repression Kotlikoff was fully behind.
#DARVO #PalestineException
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
Last Fall, Cornell targeted a Black Muslim international student for simply being present at a protest, an act of repression Kotlikoff was fully behind.
#DARVO #PalestineException
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
📆 17/10/25 12:00 BST
Most Western universities make a big exception when it comes to dismantling colonial thinking: Universities should reject all settler-colonialism, including Israel's & its enablers'
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-palest...
#OpenUniversity #OpenSocietalChallenge #PalestineException
Most Western universities make a big exception when it comes to dismantling colonial thinking: Universities should reject all settler-colonialism, including Israel's & its enablers'
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-palest...
#OpenUniversity #OpenSocietalChallenge #PalestineException
August 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
📆 17/10/25 12:00 BST
Most Western universities make a big exception when it comes to dismantling colonial thinking: Universities should reject all settler-colonialism, including Israel's & its enablers'
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-palest...
#OpenUniversity #OpenSocietalChallenge #PalestineException
Most Western universities make a big exception when it comes to dismantling colonial thinking: Universities should reject all settler-colonialism, including Israel's & its enablers'
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-palest...
#OpenUniversity #OpenSocietalChallenge #PalestineException
Why is a condition for recognising #Palestine "to demilitarise the Palestinian State"?
Will #Israel & every other State with an army also be demilitarised as a condition of their statehood?
Or does the #PalestineException live on in all this fake 'recognition'?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
Will #Israel & every other State with an army also be demilitarised as a condition of their statehood?
Or does the #PalestineException live on in all this fake 'recognition'?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
Canada, Australia join UK in recognising Palestinian statehood
Recognition of Palestine from Canada, Australia comes in coordination with UK, ahead of UN General Assembly meeting.
www.aljazeera.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Why is a condition for recognising #Palestine "to demilitarise the Palestinian State"?
Will #Israel & every other State with an army also be demilitarised as a condition of their statehood?
Or does the #PalestineException live on in all this fake 'recognition'?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
Will #Israel & every other State with an army also be demilitarised as a condition of their statehood?
Or does the #PalestineException live on in all this fake 'recognition'?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
“[…] we call on more members of the linguistics community (as well as academia in general) to step forward in support of Michel DeGraff’s academic rights and dignity.”
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #PalestineException #BlockTheBan
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #PalestineException #BlockTheBan
The same open letter as a text (rather than images), with functioning hyperlinks:
davidheap.blogspot.com/2024/12/why-...
40 linguists supporting the #BlockTheBan #petition at #MIT, including @mbnoonan.bsky.social @drasko-kascelan.bsky.social @phoevos.bsky.social @philippe-prevost.bsky.social
davidheap.blogspot.com/2024/12/why-...
40 linguists supporting the #BlockTheBan #petition at #MIT, including @mbnoonan.bsky.social @drasko-kascelan.bsky.social @phoevos.bsky.social @philippe-prevost.bsky.social
Why we as linguists support the Block the Ban at MIT petition
December 23, 2024 Why we as linguists support the Block the Ban at MIT petition The petition linked here is in support of Prahlad Iyengar...
davidheap.blogspot.com
December 27, 2024 at 11:25 PM
“[…] we call on more members of the linguistics community (as well as academia in general) to step forward in support of Michel DeGraff’s academic rights and dignity.”
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #PalestineException #BlockTheBan
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #PalestineException #BlockTheBan
Why are #universities caving to #Trump ? Because they're acting like corporations. Also, the #PalestineException to free speech seems to have morphed into suppressing all protest.
jessrow.substack.com/p/why-are-un...
jessrow.substack.com/p/why-are-un...
Why Are Universities Caving to Trump?
Because they're acting like corporations.
jessrow.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Why are #universities caving to #Trump ? Because they're acting like corporations. Also, the #PalestineException to free speech seems to have morphed into suppressing all protest.
jessrow.substack.com/p/why-are-un...
jessrow.substack.com/p/why-are-un...
overland.org.au/2025/12/the-... #australia #censorship #genocide #palestineexception #institutionalsilencing #journalism #complicity
The genocide exception: measuring institutional silencing on Palestine in Australia - Overland literary journal
Academics for Palestine WA, in partnership with Academics for Palestine SA, launched a quantitative and qualitative survey to measure the frequency and perception of silencing amongst a cohort vocal o...
overland.org.au
December 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Why are #universities caving to #trump ? Because they're acting like corporations. Also, the #palestineexception to free speech seems to have morphed into suppressing all protest.
https://jessrow.substack.com/p/why-are-universities-caving-to-trump
https://jessrow.substack.com/p/why-are-universities-caving-to-trump
Why Are Universities Caving to Trump?
Because they're acting like corporations.
jessrow.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Why are #universities caving to #trump ? Because they're acting like corporations. Also, the #palestineexception to free speech seems to have morphed into suppressing all protest.
https://jessrow.substack.com/p/why-are-universities-caving-to-trump
https://jessrow.substack.com/p/why-are-universities-caving-to-trump
Microsoft Bans the Word “Palestine” in Internal Emails
I hate to admit it, but BDS was correct to make Microsoft a priority target. Boycott Microsoft! That censorship of Palestine in particular (#PalestineException) is so wrong on so many levels!
#FreePalestine
#BoycottMicrosoft
#BDS
I hate to admit it, but BDS was correct to make Microsoft a priority target. Boycott Microsoft! That censorship of Palestine in particular (#PalestineException) is so wrong on so many levels!
#FreePalestine
#BoycottMicrosoft
#BDS
Microsoft Bans the Word “Palestine” in Internal Emails
After days of disruption by pro-Palestine activists at its Build developer conference, No Azure for Apartheid said, Microsoft made it impossible to send emails containing "Palestine" or "Gaza."
www.dropsitenews.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Microsoft Bans the Word “Palestine” in Internal Emails
I hate to admit it, but BDS was correct to make Microsoft a priority target. Boycott Microsoft! That censorship of Palestine in particular (#PalestineException) is so wrong on so many levels!
#FreePalestine
#BoycottMicrosoft
#BDS
I hate to admit it, but BDS was correct to make Microsoft a priority target. Boycott Microsoft! That censorship of Palestine in particular (#PalestineException) is so wrong on so many levels!
#FreePalestine
#BoycottMicrosoft
#BDS
The #PalestineException is sadly alive and well, at Tufts University. The medical profession it turns out is the worst.
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threadreaderapp.com/thread/18598...
Thread by @MouinRabbani on Thread Reader App
@MouinRabbani: THREAD: Encounter with the Thought Police (Remarks delivered at the Fletcher School's Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies) It’s a real pleasure to be speaking again at the Fa...
threadreaderapp.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
The #PalestineException is sadly alive and well, at Tufts University. The medical profession it turns out is the worst.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18598...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18598...
Columbia University’s Secret Disciplinary Process for Students Critical of Israel
The irony that @columbiauniversity.bsky.social tried very hard to double down on the #PalestineException to free speech, and Trump Administration still (temporarily) pulled their funding.
#FreePalestine
The irony that @columbiauniversity.bsky.social tried very hard to double down on the #PalestineException to free speech, and Trump Administration still (temporarily) pulled their funding.
#FreePalestine
Columbia University’s Secret Disciplinary Process for Students Critical of Israel
As Trump threatens sweeping action against “illegal protest” on college campuses, Columbia is already using secret processes to punish pro-Palestine students
www.dropsitenews.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Columbia University’s Secret Disciplinary Process for Students Critical of Israel
The irony that @columbiauniversity.bsky.social tried very hard to double down on the #PalestineException to free speech, and Trump Administration still (temporarily) pulled their funding.
#FreePalestine
The irony that @columbiauniversity.bsky.social tried very hard to double down on the #PalestineException to free speech, and Trump Administration still (temporarily) pulled their funding.
#FreePalestine