Rather, SFSU and CSU are obligated to defend us against the vilification and smearing by an Israel lobby that is troubled by and seeks to silence Palestinian narratives and scholarship, teaching and advocacy for justice in/for Palestine. SFSU and CSU should not participate in such censorship directly or indirectly. This censorship violates our freedom of speech and academic freedom as faculty to teach, deprives our students from the right to learn, and denies the general public the right to hear from speakers who are not readily available on mainstream media. Professor Kinukawa and I are extremely troubled that the university seems to be accepting Zoom’s decision to cancel our open classroom webinar. Subject: Urgent-Need to hear ASAP from SFSU Administration of how the webinar on “Whose Narratives” will go on today as scheduled at 12:30pm PST The response? Radio Silence? The question is why are Palestinian narratives exceptionalized and why SFSU president siding with Zionist defamation, silencing and bullying? Here is my email again to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, asking the university for help. SFSU President is saying that she did not silence us. =AZUsKeXUGOEFp94eMWzUR8A9CFMarO1XmTIa-Zx-zgsSHpME1TANUZP1Wc4MibvFi5T2qlRzRLjo1jRUMARkcn6U15ItX97JrWi-UGlvuL0PwrSa3H2wZgibjYa_1sH_2FA&_tn_=%2CO%2CP-R Following the unceremonious YouTube dumping of her webinar featuring terrorist Leila Khaled, Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, the director of Director and Senior Scholar of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at SFSU, has continued to express her frustration on Facebook – including this revealing post:f
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