Fighting for Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

IN AN ONLINE program next week, the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University will host “A Conversation With Leila Khaled,” an event it is promoting as a “historic” encounter with a prominent “Palestinian feminist, militant, and leader.” One of the program’s two moderators, Professor Rabab Abdulhadi of the college’s Race and Resistance…

While colleges and universities across the country have expended immense resources, in particular over the past several months, addressing unsubstantiated claims of systemic racism on their campuses and within American culture and institutions more broadly, there are other minority groups that face discrimination but go largely ignored. With millions of dollars in initiatives to hire…