DoomsdaysCW<p>From Campus to the Courts, the “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PalestineException" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineException</span></a>” Rules <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>University</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crackdowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crackdowns</span></a> </p><p>by Akela Lacy, Yazan Mohammad<br>November 18 2024, 2:04 p.m.</p><p>"With <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>’s war on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> entering its second year, Khalaf is among thousands of students and faculty members still being targeted in universities’ battles over harsh <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtestCrackdowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestCrackdowns</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a>, academic independence, and discrimination.</p><p>"The fights are playing out online, in campus quads, internal disciplinary proceedings, and in the courts. Organizers among the students and faculty say universities are retaliating against them for their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> and restricting their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CiviLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CiviLiberties</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreedomOfExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfExpression</span></a> while claiming to uphold both.</p><p>"As campus protests reached their height in May, Dahlia Saba, a second-year Palestinian American graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote an op-ed supporting the demonstrators’ demands. She called on the school to address calls to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/divest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divest</span></a> from industries that profit from Israel’s war. She and her co-author Vignesh Ramachandran, another graduate student, were met with student nonacademic disciplinary investigations that relied solely on the op-ed for evidence.</p><p>"'The university is threatening us with sanctions that could jeopardize our academic careers if we choose to speak out again,' Saba said. 'They’re low-level sanctions to begin with, but the university is pursuing sanctions against many people on very little evidence.'</p><p>"The issue is not so much the severity of the sanctions, Saba said, but using punishments to chill students’ speech. The disciplinary actions become a tool, she said, to help universities keep track of people involved in protests for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/18/gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2024/11/18/ga</span><span class="invisible">za-protest-campus-palestine-exception/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CeasefireNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CeasefireNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopArmingIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopArmingIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliWarCrimes</span></a></p>