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Letter to Chancellor Byron Clift Breland re Their Email Criticizing the Post by SWANA and Calling on Them to Restore the Posting of Their Statement About Israel’s Assassination of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

14 June 2022 Chancellor Byron D. Clift Breland North Orange County Community College District 1830 W. Romneya Drive Anaheim, CA 92801 bbreland@nocccd.edu Dear Chancellor Breland: We write on behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom (cs4af) in response to your May 26 email criticizing the statement by North Orange County Community College District’s Southwest AsianContinue reading “Letter to Chancellor Byron Clift Breland re Their Email Criticizing the Post by SWANA and Calling on Them to Restore the Posting of Their Statement About Israel’s Assassination of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh”

May 27, 2022 Edward M. Feasel, PhD Office of the President SUA University of America 1 University Drive Aliso Viejo, California 92656 Dear President Feasel: We are writing on behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom* to express our outraged concern and genuine surprise over the disciplinary process initiated by SUA University against Prof. AneilContinue reading “Letter to President Feasel, SUA University of American re: Disciplinary Process Initiated Against Professor Aneil Rallin”

Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine Whereas : 1- Israel has subjected the Palestinian people for 73 years to an ongoing catastrophe, known as the Nakba, a process that included massive displacement, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity ; 2- Israel has established an apartheid regime onContinue reading “California Scholars For Academic Freedom Signs the Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine”

June 10, 2021 Dear Chancellor Larive, California Scholars for Academic Freedom, a group of over 200 scholars who teach in 20 California institutions, and that seeks to defend academic freedom on college campuses, is writing to you about a letter you received this week, entitled “Faculty letter to the chancellor about anti-Israel statements by UCSCContinue reading “Response to University of California, Santa Cruz Chancellor Larive concerning their Letter Condemning the Department of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies for Statements in Support of Palestinians Rights.”

CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM CS4AF July 5, 2021 Dear Ms. Cecily Myart-Cruz, president,United Teachers Los Angeles We write on behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom,** upon learning of the vicious attacks against Mr. Soni Lloyd and other Venice High School teachers, for their stance on Palestinian rights. As scholars at public and privateContinue reading “Letter to Ms. Cecily Myart-Cruz, President, United Teachers Los Angeles in Support of the Constitutionally-Protected Rights of Los Angeles Unified School District Teachers Attacked for Their Support of Palestinian Rights”

CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM July 5, 2021 Dear Ms. Megan K. Reilly, interim superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District We write on behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom,** upon learning of the vicious attacks against Mr. Soni Lloyd and other Venice High School teachers, for their stance on Palestinian rights. As scholars atContinue reading “Letter to Ms. Megan K. Reilly, Interim Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District in Support of Mr. Soni Lloyd and Other Venice High School Teachers Viciously Attacked for Their Support of Palestinian Rights”

‘California Scholars for Academic Freedom strongly endorses the Middle East Studies Association Board’s Statement on Palestine (https://mesana.org/advocacy/letters-from-the-board/2021/05/21/mesa-board-statement-in-support-of-palestinians) and emphasizes its concluding statement: “We recognize that there can be neither academic freedom for Palestinians nor their full enjoyment of the right to education so long as racism and apartheid undergird the logic of Israeli rule overContinue reading “California Scholars for Academic Freedom Strongly Endorses the Middle East Studies Association Statement on Palestine”

Dear UC Merced Administration, Chancellor, Juan Sánchez Muñoz; Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Gregg Camfield; Vice Provost, Teenie Matlock; Associate Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer, Dania Matos We are the California Scholars for Academic Freedom (CS4AF), a group of over 200 scholars throughout California committed to fighting all forms of racism, islamophobia, xenophobia, antisemitism andContinue reading “Letter to Administration, U.C. Merced: CS4AF is Deeply Troubled By Your Collusion In The Cancellation of A Recent Open Classroom Event Titled “Whose Narrative? What Free Speech For Palestine?””

April 30, 2021 To: Lynn HaalandDeputy General CounselChief Compliance and Ethics Officer Zoom Video Communications, Inc. CC: Eric Yuan Founder & Chief Executive Officer Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Dear Zoom, As an organization dedicated to upholding academic freedom**, we welcome your news that your company will refrain from regulating Academic Speech in zoom related events inContinue reading “Demand FaceBook Immediately Reinstate The FaceBook Page of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies Program at San Francisco State University (SFSU)”

April 30, 2021 To: Lindsay Elin, Director of External Affairs and Mary deBree, Director of Content Policy CC: Peter Stern, Direct of Content Policy Stakeholder Engagement Dear Facebook, We, California Scholars for Academic Freedom (CS4AF)**, an organization of over 200 scholars in higher education in California committed to the protection of Academic Freedom, are troubledContinue reading “Demand FaceBook Immediately Reinstate The FaceBook Page of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies Program at San Francisco State University (SFSU)”