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History Demands We Speak

Resisting campus censorship and the U.S./Israeli genocide in Gaza

From BobAvakianOfficial: Opposition to the Zionist state of Israel, is not anti-Semitism. And opposing injustice means opposing Israel.

 

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As we highlighted in last week’s editorial, we are living through a full-scale fascist assault on academic freedom, with institutions like Columbia University being turned into tools that serve a fascist agenda. Under the Trump-driven IHRA definition of anti-Semitism that colleges across the country are being forced to adopt, facts about Israel’s apartheid nature and genocidal history are branded “hate,” comparisons to Nazi Germany are outlawed, and whole chapters of Palestinian history are censored. Facts become “hate speech”; truth and resistance become criminalized.

In the face of this, some voices refuse to be silenced. Dr. Adam Hamawy—a plastic surgeon who was part of a team of 19 doctors that went to Gaza in 2024 to perform emergency surgeries on civilians wounded in U.S.-supplied Israeli mass bombings—sent this powerful statement to Revolution Books describing what he has seen in Gaza, calling out Columbia University, and challenging all of us to act in this crucial moment:

I’ve been to Gaza. I have seen the bodies of children torn apart by bombs made in this country. I have worked alongside doctors and journalists who knew they were marked for death and have been killed to silence the truth.

Now Columbia University and the administration wants to make it a crime to speak that truth. This isn’t about protecting anyone from hate it’s about protecting a state committing genocide from being named and held to account.

History will remember who stood up and who stayed silent. This is the moment to speak, to act, and to stand on the side of justice. No matter the cost.

In the video posted by @therevcoms last week, Rafael Kadaris exposes Columbia University’s use of the IHRA definition as a tool of suppression with a hypocritical disguise of “protection” of the Jewish students and faculty. He raises the demands to draw the line, stand on the side of truth and academic freedom, stop censorship and repression, and stand up now against genocide and the silencing of those who dare to name it.

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