Last month, three tech giants censored an online class featuring Palestinian, Black, Jewish and South African activists at San Francisco State University, after pro-Israel advocacy groups complained.

The open classroom event, “Whose Narratives?: Gender, Justice & Resistance,” featured Palestinian activist Leila Khaled and was co-sponsored by the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program and the Department of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University. It was scheduled to take place at 12:30 PDT before being erased from Zoom, Facebook and YouTube. Before, during, and since this massive, coordinated, electronic de-platforming by these tech giants, SFSU has refused to support the webinar’s organizers, Profs. Rabab Abdulhadi (AMED) and Tomomi Kinukawa (WGS), defend their academic freedom, or provide them with an alternative platform.

In response, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is launching a national day of action for anyone with access to a university Zoom account to hold a webinar of your own.

To sign up and get materials, reach out to USACBI here.
In the face of Zoom's censorship of an academic class on Palestinian rights, the movement asserts: we will not be silenced.
USACBI calls on anyone with access to a university Zoom account to hold a webinar of your own on October 23.

As part of this day of action, senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath will be speaking on a panel at NYU on this topic.

Hear from the following speakers on resisting censorship of Palestine advocacy:
Katherine Franke (Columbia)
Nerdeen Kiswani (CUNY/Within our Lifetime)
Fred Moten (NYU)
Radhika Sainath (Palestine Legal)
moderated by Andrew Ross (NYU/USACBI)
(with a message from Leila Khaled)

Friday, 10/23 at 4pm ET. To join, enter the following meeting ID into Zoom:
950 4559 5136