Friday, June 14, 2-4pm - Online
Sign Up for Dr. Abdulhadi's Palestine Summer Course, canceled by complicit SFSU Administrators.
4) Wednesday, June 26, 2024 -- Revisiting “the Colonial Harem”: Gender, Justice & Resistance in the Age of Genocide
As the death toll rise in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, San Francisco State University (SFSU) has once again decided to cancel its only Palestine course that Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi was scheduled to teach during this summer schoolThis abrupt and irrational decision seeks to criminalize Palestine curriculum while dismissing and ignoring popular student demand to learn a critical Palestinian perspective that has been absent on US college campuses.
Over the last month, hundreds of students, academics, community leaders and organizers called on SFSU administrators to urgently reverse their decision to cancel Dr. Abdulhadi’s popular and unique course. Having failed to employ excuses of low enrollment or lack of interest, however, SFSU administrators seem intent on blocking the decolonization of curriculum on Palestine and SWANA and marginalizing the AMED Studies program and its independence. SFSU actions mirror Israeli government policies to erase Palestine and US Israel’s apologists to “exact a heavy price” from anyone who advocates for justice in and for Palestine.
Dr. Abdulhadi has announced that she will not acquiesce to such a colonial agenda but will fight it publicly and defiantly, irrespective of the cost and threats to which she has been subjected within and outside SFSU. As an educator inspired by the Spirit of ‘68 and the outstanding student Intifada, she insists on Teaching Palestine to anyone and everyone who is interested in critical thinking and learning.
Determined to contribute to the steadfastness of Gaza and Palestinian liberation, she will offer her Palestine course online as part of the Popular University for Gaza/Palestine without paid compensation through Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice.
Course description: Advanced seminar examines Palestinian diasporic experiences from a historical and a comparative perspective. The rise, development, and decline of a Palestinian resistance movement will be the center of analysis. Seminar situated in post-colonial and diaspora/exile studies.
The 5 Open Classrooms, 11am-1pm PT/2-4pm ET/9-11pm Palestine are (please expect a slight revision of titles as we confirm panelists):
1) Thursday, June 6, 2024: "From (1967) Defeat to (2024) Steadfastness: Narrating Genocide and Resistance" (recording here: From (1967) Defeat to (2024) Steadfastness: Genocide & Resistance (youtube.com))
2) Week 2: Friday, June 14, 2024 -- "Against Erasure & Greed from Jerusalem to Tulsa & Trail of Tears to Grenfell" (recording here: Against Erasure & Greed: Jerusalem to Tulsa & Trail of Tears to Grenfell (youtube.com) )
3) Monday, June 17, 2024: Min Sijin Akka to Soweto: Singing Freedom, Archiving Cultures of Resistance
4) Wednesday, June 26, 2024 -- Revisiting “the Colonial Harem”: Gender, Justice & Resistance in the Age of Genocide
5) Friday, July 5, 2024: The Wretched of the Earth Talk Back: Vietnam, Algeria, the Spirit of ‘68 & Decolonizing the Curriculum
Learn more & sign up (sliding scale $50 - $1000, or request waiver - no one turned away): Sign Up for Dr. Abdulhadi's Palestine Summer course, canceled once again abruptly and irrationally by the Pro-Israel SFSU Administration. (google.com)
Or Watch the Livestream: AMED SFSU - YouTube
About: Popular University for Gaza — National Students for Justice in Palestine (nationalsjp.org)
Media: Announcing the launch of the online Popular University for Gaza – Mondoweiss