Month: October 2023
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Calls for Academic Institutions to End Genocide against Palestinians
Open Letter from the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’s Research Community Open Letter from Birzeit University in Palestine to International Academic Institutions Statement on Bias in UC Statements from the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council
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CRES Statement of Support for the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) is a department at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) that studies race intersectionally in the context of power. In this moment—when we are grieving lives lost, fearing the many more to come, and witnessing Israel once again retaliate against a trapped Palestinian population in Gaza—we want to underscore the need…
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Call for a Global General Strike
As a department, we are observing the Palestinian-led Global General Strike and will not conduct university business as usual on 10/20/23. We are in full support of the strike to stand against Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza, itself an extension of the ongoing Nakba Palestinians have experienced for over 75 years. As educators, following our colleagues…