Bookmarking: Tuesdays at 6:30-8:30pm (ET): A Short Course on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi - The People's Forum. Runs Sept 30-Oct 28 Will be livestreamed on YT for all who cannot attend in person. peoplesforum.org/events/guest...

Dang covid vaccine gave me a fever, guess I'll take a Tylenol.

"Lin’s decision also creates a potential opening for other researchers seeking to challenge their grant terminations after an August U.S. Supreme Court decision seemingly made that process harder." Pay close attention to this move, it's useful! Congrats to UCLA faculty! laist.com/news/educati...

Are you a @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Senate faculty member? Are you sick of Trump's threats to your grants, our academic programs, and existential threats to the University as a whole? CUCFA created a petition to demand No Capitulation. Please sign/share! cucfa.solidarity.tech/no-capitulat...

Absolutely required reading for anybody (students, faculty, staff) returning to campus this Fall. This is the challenge of our time. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

"Premodern Elite Culture in Andalusia" introduces students to the multicultural world of medieval Iberia, where Muslim, Jewish, and Christian elites shared cultural practices across political and religious divides.

"Middle Eastern Jewish Life and Early Zionism, 1880-1920" presents a variety of voices from Arabic-speaking and Sephardic Jewish communities alongside European Jewish perspectives.

"The Arab American Immigrant Experience" narrates the history of Arab immigration to the United States and how these immigrants navigated racial stereotyping. Focused attention is paid to how Arab Americans were represented in popular culture.

"Modern Palestinian History" contextualizes the 1948 Nakba–the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes with Israel’s establishment–with sources ranging from Ottoman maps to British commission reports and Palestinian writings and poetry.

A yearlong partnership between the Department of History and the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) has resulted in the publication of four new inquiry sets on Middle Eastern and Arab American history!

So many friends and colleagues in Jewish Studies lost their grants to, for example, translate Yiddish texts from the Holocaust, so that the money could go to the Tikvah Fund's ahistorical project of constructing "Judeo-Christian civilization," making Jews wards of Christian nationalism.

"I'm dismayed by what's happening to the campus climate in terms of being able to speak out about basic issues. We should be able to teach our subject matters with freedom. Students should have the right to learn without censorship." Ussama Makdisi speaks with NPR www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...

Trump says he'll use CK's death to recruit college students into the military. This gives me real 9/11 vibes. Most men of my gen joined the army after 2001 in response to jingoist, thinly veiled racist recruiting. They got sent to devastating wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“In turning over personal information to the government, the UC gave us a glimpse into how it handles injustice: by turning its back on students and faculty and leaving us at a loss for information and security.” www.dailycal.org/opinion/edit... @ucaft.bsky.social

Update on this story: As many of us feared, it turns out that Berkeley wasn't the only UC to release personal info on its pro-palestine anti-genocide professors to the justice department, it looks they they all did. Berkeley was just the only one to tell profs they did it.

We just filed a lawsuit on behalf of faculty, staff, students, and unions to protect free speech within the University of California system. The Trump-Vance admin's use of financial threats against academic institutions in an attempt to stifle views it opposes is both unconstitutional and illegal.

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

Been meaning to share this for a while: BROKEN RECORD: GENDERED ABUSE IN ACADEMIA ft 40+ contributors & THE Sara Ahmed from @sunypress.bsky.social. Because higher ed is not a bastion of the radical left. It's A WORKPLACE where abuses happen all the time & it's NOT OK. sunypress.edu/Books/B/Brok...

The CUCFA (Council of University of California Faculty Associations) seeks an Operations Director. This position is Remote. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @uc-faculty.bsky.social @aaup.org

See, here's what happens if you manufacture a cudgel that draws false equivalency between speaking about violence and actual violence. The cudgel was created to repress Palestinian campus speech. Now it's used to axe DEI, fire employees for free speech. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Wall-to-Wall UC labor union rally tomorrow in front of the UC Regents meeting. Our message to Trump: Hands off our UC!!

TUESDAY 9/16: meet all your colleagues at the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents meeting. They will be talking about Trump's latest demands. We will stand up and demand Hands Off Our UC! CUCFA, AAUP, AFT, UAW, CNA, and AFSCME. You want acronyms, we've got all of them! 2pm Sept 16 at UCSF, Join us!

Excellent letter. As a Cal alum, I’ve been struggling with how to convey how bitterly disappointed I’ve been with an institution that so thoroughly engrained in me the importance of having a stiff spine and an open mind.

Berkeley Faculty Association protests @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's legally improper naming of 160 faculty, staff, students to DOE: "This disclosure caused significant harm: chilled speech and association and, among non-citizens, heightened fear of...deportation." ucbfa.org/wp-content/u...

Judith Butler on @democracynow.org: "I still don’t know what the allegation is. Most of us learned that there is an allegation, that it was forwarded, and we also learned that we have never known what the allegation is. We still don’t know." Appalling. www.democracynow.org/2025/9/15/ju...

Do you want to know what a Title VI violation actually looks like? It looks like your university president forwarding unverified and anonymous complaints about student classroom utterances to the federal government to enable them to deprive that student of the right to learn.

Anyway, here's an email I sent @UofCalifornia President Milliken and @UCBerkeley Chancellor Lyons, on their disgraceful decision to prematurely forward names to DOE for political harassment. UC faculty, staff, students *systemwide* are in peril. Terrible, self-defeating choice.

I emailed @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to urge him to VETO censorship of our state's K12 classrooms. Veto AB 715! If you would like to express your opposition to this antidemocratic bill and affirm our state's educators, here's a link to a CAIR California campaign: win.newmode.net/caircaliforn...

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

I spoke to @theintercept.com about a bonkers bill that would let Marco Rubio, who thinks pro-Palestine op-ed writers are terrorists, revoke passports for whoever he deems a supporter of terrorism. It would also let a future Democratic administration target those it dislikes the same way.

🗃️ Had to cancel my class because of unconfirmed bomb threat (my class is in Ketchum). So exhausted and sad and angry.

To argue that is to argue that the Nazis calling ‘inferior’ races untermenschen was valid political speech until they started physically attacking them. It’s to ignore how fucking everything works. We don’t get to genocides without hate speech first. It’s insane that this needs to be said

I don't think a lot of people realize or know people who were on the receiving end of death threats for over a decade because of Turning Point USA. They made a watch list of professors that made them targets for not only hate mail but death threats. That's Charlie Kirk's legacy.

A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share far and wide and encourage colleagues to give generously! leonardeducation.org/the-palestin... (HT @nsdoud on X)

Letting children be shot and killed because we want to have access to arsenals of weapons without restrictions is also political violence.

terrific essay by feminist historian Joan Scott on attacks on free inquiry in the time of her father and now: “this time around, the stakes feel even higher”

Foggy ✅ still beautiful ✅ at Gornergrat Zermatt

Notice how many signatories lack credentials for demanding retraction from the International Association of Genocide Scholars. The UCD signatories lack even the faintest relevant expertise, yet are comfortable demanding genocide scholars revert to their fiction. www.scholarsfortruthaboutgenocide.com

Even worse is that on many of our campuses (including the University of California) not only will the administration meet with such students, they will violate their rights of faculty, staff, and students without a second thought if they think it will stop a lawsuit. Extremist groups know this.

Siri, show me something that is definitely not, in fact, terrorism?

As the UC Regents prepare to discuss the Trump admin's threats, it's imperative that every faculty member reminds them that standing up for the UC means pushing back on the demands. No concessions, commit to fight for UC. Here's a letter, pls sign/share: actionnetwork.org/letters/uc-s...

The AI authorship issue is real. We've caught papers that looked OK but had references to works by the *journal editors* that *do not exist*. Like, don't send us papers citing papers we know we didn't write, right?

OpenAI pirated my first book and my article with IJMES for purposes of training their bot. Follow the links here to see if your copyright was infringed, and if it was, to add your name to file.

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"All too often faculty ... are happy to pontificate on injustices and inequities over which they have no direct control while treating students, staff, and junior colleagues at their own university as if they were lesser beings." As former UC staff, I've never heard this said out loud. Bravo. 🔥🔥🔥

If you work on any @UofCalifornia give this one your time. Uni leadership is belatedly asking us to "Stand Up For UC" while repeatedly revising faculty disciplinary policy to make standing up impossible. This essay asks, how did we get here? What now? utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

Orgs finding Israel is committing genocide include Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Israeli rights group B’Tselem, UN experts. The International Court of Justice is hearing a case alleging Israel is committing genocidal acts. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.