The campaign cynically usees the EEOC, an agency ostensibly meant to protect workers from discrimination, to punish scholars for holding dissenting views on US foreign policy.

In a chilling development, the Trump administration has unleashed a full-scale witch hunt targeting nearly 900 faculty members within the University of California system. Their “crime” is signing open letters on the Israeli assault on Gaza and calling for the protection of Jewish and Palestinian students alike.

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I feel like people are making me feel like I’m crazy for being worried for my uncle who is a (gay) social justice professor in California but I can’t be that fucking crazy right? He’s an activist and an immigrant, he should be getting the fuck out of there.