Confronting Institutional Complicity: Faculty Organizing for Palestine on US Campuses
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This article explores the roles and contributions of US faculty in campus Palestine solidarity movements, focusing on the authors’ experiences as faculty organizing for divestment at Michigan State University. We connect these efforts with university students’ Palestine solidarity organizing and demands as well as other internationalist solidarity movements at Michigan State University beginning in the 1960s. We outline findings from a faculty-authored report that calls for the university to divest from entities that support or profit from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. Ultimately, we argue that US faculty occupy an entangled and often complicit position in universities’ investments in and engagements with Israel’s occupation and genocide in Palestine. This complicity demands we act and call for our institutions to divest from oppression and violence and instead invest in a shared future.
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Confronting Institutional Complicity: Faculty Organizing for Palestine on US Campuses
In: ProtestSearch for other papers by Jennifer Goett in
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Abstract
This article explores the roles and contributions of US faculty in campus Palestine solidarity movements, focusing on the authors’ experiences as faculty organizing for divestment at Michigan State University. We connect these efforts with university students’ Palestine solidarity organizing and demands as well as other internationalist solidarity movements at Michigan State University beginning in the 1960s. We outline findings from a faculty-authored report that calls for the university to divest from entities that support or profit from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. Ultimately, we argue that US faculty occupy an entangled and often complicit position in universities’ investments in and engagements with Israel’s occupation and genocide in Palestine. This complicity demands we act and call for our institutions to divest from oppression and violence and instead invest in a shared future.
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| Abstract Views | 67 | 67 | 19 |
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