Portland State University Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine
As educators and staff at Portland State University, we stand for universal education and the right to education. We stand against all forms of structural violence that obstruct or deny access to education and knowledge production. Given these values and those of our University that support social justice, we stand in solidarity with Palestinians resisting genocide, occupation, warfare, displacement, ethnic cleansing, and dispossession.
The struggle for Palestinian freedom is aligned with anti-colonial movements and struggles in many parts of the world. These include movements for indigenous land rights, Black liberation, gender and sexual freedom and a liveable and sustainable planet.
The Palestinian question has become one of the great moral and political issues debated on university campuses, and those who are part of the Palestine solidarity movement are increasingly subject to surveillance, censorship, intimidation, and criminalization.
Thus, the movement for justice in Palestine is crucial terrain for highlighting the defense of freedom of expression and political commitment within the academy; the preservation of free inquiry, engaged pedagogy, and open scholarship; and the survival of egalitarian campus governance in the face of attacks by off-campus groups allied with unconditional U.S. support for the Israeli state.
Portland State University Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine 