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New attacks on free speech for Palestine advocates

Season of showdowns

Relations between universities and the U.S. military are not always mediated by the corporate industrial sector. American universities and the U.S. military are also linked directly and organizationally.

University administrators are unleashing a fresh wave of attacks to discipline the Pro-Palestine movement. These draconian measures show the links between universities and the Zionist interests of the bipartisan regime.

Education subsidy funding changes sparked mass protests. A weeks-long occupation of Paraguay’s largest university forced the right-wing government to the table. Those in power fear students organizing alongside unions and social organizations.

Rather than pontificate on academic freedom, important though it is right now, I want to reflect on academic joy, about what can be so exciting about the life of the mind—even in the modern university.

Conservative state legislatures and ideologically-driven boards want to dramatically change America’s colleges.

Our interactive map illustrates some ways in which institutional support for the colonization of Palestine is structurally tied to policing and systemic white supremacy here where we live, and to US imperialist projects in other countries. 

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