Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Rebecca M. Cunningham President, University of Minnesota upres@umn.edu . . . Dear President Cunningham and Colleagues: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our concern about the decision of […]
Protesting Wake Forest University’s Cancellation of a Lecture by Professor Rabab Abdelhadi
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Dear President Wente and Provost Gillespie: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our concern about Wake Forest University’s decision to cancel a scheduled lecture by Professor Rabab Abdelhadi, […]
Protesting Cornell University’s Suspension and threatened Deportation of graduate Student Momodou Taal for Protest
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Dear Interim President Kotlikoff, Provost Bala, Dr. Lombardi and Ms. Liang: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our extreme concern about your decision to temporarily suspend Cornell graduate […]
Protesting the Firing of Tenured Professor Maura Finkelstein for Criticizing Zionism
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Dear President Harring, Provost Furge and Professor Dowd: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our grave concern about the announcement by Muhlenberg College that it intends to terminate […]
Protesting Israel’s targeted destruction of all Schools and Universities in Gaza
Middle East Studies Association Board | Committee on Academic Freedom | – Dear President Biden, Vice-President Harris, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin, We write to you on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) and the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) to […]
Rebuking New York University for trying to Outlaw Criticism of Israel by Conflating Zionism with Judaism
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Linda G. Mills President, New York University linda.mills@nyu.edu Georgina Dopico Provost, New York University georgina.dopico@nyu.edu . . . We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our grave concern […]
Denouncing the University of Pennsylvania’s collaboration with the House Education Committee investigation of Faculty Members
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Larry Jameson Interim President, the University of Pennsylvania president@upenn.edu John Jackson Provost, the University of Pennsylvania provost@upenn.edu . . . We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our […]
Letter to Florida State University System Protesting the Policing and Censorship of course Materials relating to Israel/Palestine
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to the Chancellor of the Florida State University System regarding the policing and censorship of course materials relating to Israel/Palestine Raymond Rodrigues Chancellor, State University System of Florida chancellor@flbog.edu Dear Chancellor Rodrigues: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of […]
Opposing a Bill Proposed by National Union of Israel Students to make Criticizing Israeli Gov’t a Firing Offense
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | = Elhanan Fellheimer Chairman, National Union of Israeli Students Prof. Arie Zaban President of Bar-Ilan University Chairperson of Association of University Heads – VERA President Zaban, Chairman Fellheimer, We write on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) of the Middle East Studies Association […]
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