EISA statement on academic freedom and Palestine
We are alarmed by the worrying developments in some countries that seek to conflate scholarship on Palestine with antisemitism resulting in the rescinding of academic invitations, attempts to limit the contents and contours of academic work, and an overall shrinking of academic freedom. We note with particular alarm the ways such attacks on academic freedom disproportionately, although not exclusively as some recent high profile cases show, target more precarious scholars, scholars of colour, and in particular Palestinian, Arab, and Jewish scholars.
EISA stands in solidarity with all those impacted everywhere by these chilling curtailments of academic freedom and pledges to uphold the academic freedom of all its members at EISA organised events.
EISA Governing Board
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