The University Intifada
ASHLEY DAWSON
Abstract
This article argues that the police attack on and dismantling of Gaza Solidarity Encampments at Columbia University and the City University of New York in the spring of 2024 is just the latest iteration of a Right-wing assault on universities and critical thought in general in the US. These now openly fascist attacks on universities also targeted Critical Race Theory, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in an effort to purge US education of antifascist intellectual production, cultural work, and movement building. All too often, the putatively liberal administrators who run universities in the US have been willing to go along with this Right-wing attack on their institutions, particularly when it is carried out in the name of fighting anti-Semitism. But the contradictions of such complicity are blatant and mounting.
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encampment, intifada, academic freedom, censorship, Students for Justice in Palestine, fascism, universities
Pages
24-29