[The following statement was issued by Faculty for Justice in Palestine at NYU, a new chapter that has formed in light of the ongoing seige of Gaza and indiscrimnate murder of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government, on 18 October 2023. Click here for an updated list of signatories.]
We the undersigned want to express our solidarity with our students, at an urgent moment of U.S.- backed state violence against a colonized, dispossessed and brutalized population. The United Nations states that at least one million people in Gaza have been forced to flee their homes in one week alone; “A river of people continues to flow south.”
We condemn the brutal killing of civilians that occurred in Israel on October 7th, which constitutes a war crime. We also condemn the massive and systematic violence being perpetrated against civilians both in Gaza and the occupied West Bank even as we write; Israel’s assault on Gaza also constitutes a war crime. We recognize that Israeli state violence against the Palestinians subject to its control has its roots in a a well-documented history of colonization, stretching back at least 75 years, that has produced what human rights groups today describe as an apartheid regime, characterized by ongoing processes of occupation, expropriation, ethnic cleansing and the denial to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza of the most basic human and civil rights – and of their right as a people to self-determination. These are the root causes of the current wave of violence; history did not begin on October 7, 2023, however horrific the massive killing of Israeli civilians on that day was.
What is happening in Gaza right now can reasonably be described as colonial racial violence, carried out with the support of the U.S. government and much of the media. Israel’s Defense Minister has characterized the people of Gaza as “human animals,” and its Minister of Energy and Infrastructure said that “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” This is dehumanizing language, which serves to justify otherwise unacceptable total violence of this sort, is also common to genocidal projects, and is being invoked to justify the indiscriminate bombing of a trapped civilian population and the cutting off of that population’s water, food, fuel and electricity. These war crimes are being openly supported, and often celebrated, by the U.S. government and much of the media in this country.
We note that students and faculty at NYU and other US campuses have long been singled out for censure and punishment for voicing support for Palestinians. In the past week the scale of intimidation has escalated precipitously. We are aware that the administration is under immense pressure from trustees, alumni and donors to be perceived as “pro-Israel,” even at the cost of tolerating or promoting violations of academic freedom and free speech rights. Even as we write this, the administration is pursuing disciplinary procedures against a student at the Law School simply for exercising their speech rights. NYU’s laudable Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) initiatives claim to foster a “thriving inclusive global community” and protect our community from the virulence of discrimination, including antisemitism. However, NYU must also recognize the harms of Islamophobia and of the racism experienced by Arab and Arab-American colleagues and students, too many of whom have become the “collateral damage” of state violence against the people of Gaza.
Now is the time to come together to demand an immediate end to the massive violence being inflicted on the people of Gaza. There can be no military solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Israel’s assault on Gaza will not only take thousands more Palestinian lives but plant the seeds of further violence. We must also speak out, on campus and beyond, in support of our students and against the anti-Palestinian campaigns in the media and the political sphere. We envision Faculty for Justice in Palestine as an inclusive organization that invites colleagues across the university to speak out at this critical moment.
Please add your name to our statement to oppose the war on Gaza, the continuing occupation and brutalization of the Palestinians subject to Israeli control, and the threats to our students and colleagues who want to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people. Subsequently, we will ask if you wish to join our chapter.
You can add your name to our statement here.
1. Tarek Abdoun, Global Distinguished Professor and Program Head of the Civil & Urban Engineering, NYU-Abu Dhabi
2. Neveen AlQasas, Research Associate, Water Research Center, NYU-Abu Dhabi
3. Andrea Y. Adomako, English, Assistant Professor
4. Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
5. Gwendolyn Alker, Drama, Associate Arts Professor
6. Ana Alvarez, CLACS, Clinical Assistant Professor
7. Bedoor AlShebli, Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, NYU Abu Dhabi
8. Jens Andermann, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
9. Jane Anderson, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
10. Ahmed Ansari, Industry Assistant Professor, Technology, Culture & Society (Tandon)
11. Sinan Antoon, Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies
12. John Archer, Professor, English
13. Laure Assaf, Assistant Professor, Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi
14. Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, History and MEIS, Assistant Professor
15. Adam H. Becker, Classics and Religious Studies, Professor
16. Adam Buchwald, Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders
17. Marie Buck,Adjunct Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies
18. Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies
19. Gordon Beeferman, Adjunct Professor, Department of Music
20. Emanuela Bianchi, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
21. Mohamad Bazzi, Associate Professor, Journalism
22. Abigail Balbale, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
23. Emanuela Bianchi, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
24. Alex Bollington, Environmental Studies, Academic Administrator
25. Barbara Browning, Performance Studies, Professor
26. Sebastián Calderón Bentin, Associate Professor, Drama
27. Dilara Çalışkan, The Gallatin School, Assistant Professor
28. Michelle Castaneda, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies
29. Dean Chahim, Environmental Studies, Assistant Professor
30. Paula Chakravartty, James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor of Media Studies, Gallatin & Media, Culture and Communication
31. Lily Chumley Media, Associate Professor, Media, Culture and Communication
32. Warren Churchill, Senior Lecturer of Music, New York University Abu Dhabi
33. Kwami Coleman, Assistant Professor, The Gallatin School
34. Talya Cooper, Division of Libraries, Research Curation Librarian
35. Catherine Coray, Arts Professor, Tisch School of The Arts
36. Lou Cornum, Assistant Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis
37. Aimee Meredith Cox, Associate Professor of Anthropology
38. Honey Crawford, Assistant Professor, English
39. Mark Crispin Miller, Professor, Media, Culture & Communication
40. Mohammed Daqaq, Mechanical Engineering, Professor, NYUAD
41. Lisa Daily, Director of Community Engagement & Associate Faculty, Gallatin School
42. Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, Anthropology, Assistant Professor
43. Arlene Dávila, Professor, Anthropology/SCA
44. Subah Dayal, Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
45. Patrick Deer, Associate Professor, English
46. Pierre Depaz, Lecturer of Interactive Media, NYU Berlin
47. Dipti Desai, Professor, Art and Art Profession
48. Rossen Djagalov, Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studie
49. Lisa Duggan, Professor, Social & Cultural Analysis
50. Hebah Emara, Division of Libraries, Librarian for Open Innovation
51. Kathy Engel, Dept of Art & Public Policy, Tisch, Assoc Arts Professor
52. Elisabeth Fay, Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program
53. Jacob Faber, Associate Professor, Sociology and Public Service
54. Allen Feldman, Professor, Media, Culture and Communication
55. Ada Ferrer, Silver Professor of History and Latin American & Caribbean Studies
56. Denise Ferreira da Silva, Professor in the Humanities, Spanish and Portuguese Studies
57. Hartry Field, Philosophy, Professor
58. Licia Fiol-Matta, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
59. Sibylle Fischer, Spanish & Portuguese, History, CLACS, Associate Professor
60. Scott Fitzgerald, Industry Associate Professor, Technology Culture and Society,
61. Jameson Fitzpatrick, Expository Writing Program, Associate Clinical Professor
62. Finbarr Barry Flood, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts
63. Erica Foldy, Wagner School, Associate Professor
64. Valerie Forman, Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
65. Sharon Friedman, Gallatin School, Founding Gallatin Professor Emerita
66. Andrea Gadberry, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Gallatin
67. Toral Gajarawala, Associate Professor, English
68. Ola Galal, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Faculty Fellow
69. Alexander R. Galloway, Professor, MCC
70. Jay Garcia, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
71. Ayoub Glia, Postdoctoral Reseach Associate, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, NYU-Abu Dhabi
72. Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History
73. Sophie Gonick, Associate Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis
74. Mona El-Ghobashy, Clinical Associate Professor, Liberal Studies.
75. Jeff Goodwin, Professor, Sociology
76. Gayatri Gopinath, Professor, Dept of Social and Cultural Analysis
77. Linda Gordon, University Professor of the Humanities, Emerita
78. Manu Goswami, Associate Professor, History
79. Hannah Gurman, Clinical Associate Professor, Gallatin School
80. Steven Hahn, Professor of History
81. Lenora Hanson, Assistant Professor, English
82. Christine Harrington, Professor, Politics Department
83. Nizar Habash, NYUAD Computer Science, Professor
84. Hala Halim, Associate Professor, Departments of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies
85. Yukiko Hanawa, East Asian Studies, Clinical Associate Professor
86. Ellie Happel, Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law, Law School
87. Laura Harris, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies and Art & Public Policy
88. Stella-Ann Harris, Liberal Studies, Administrative Aide
89. Terrance Hayes, Professor Department of English
90. Radha S. Hegde, Professor, Media, Culture and Communication
91. Nidal Hilal, Professor, Division of Engineering, NYU- Abu Dhabi
92. Khaled Al Hilli, Clinical Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
93. David W. Hogg, Physics, Professor of Physics and Data Science
94. Kristin Horton, Associate Professor of Practice, Gallatin School
95. Dale Hudson, Associate Professor, NYU Abu Dhabi
96. Asli Iğsiz, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
97. Sireen Irsheid, Silver School of Social Work, Assistant Professor
98. Saif Jabari, Associate Professor, Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
99. Jae James, Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work
100. Asmaa Jrad, Postdoctoral Associate, NYUAD Water Research Center
101. Nikolaos Karathanasopoulos, Assistant Professor, Engineering NYU AD
102. Rebecca Karl, Professor, History
103. Nina Katchadourian, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Clinical Professor
104. Marion Katz, Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
105. Arang Keshavarzian, Chair and Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
106. Dipti Khera, Associate Professor, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts
107. Roozbeh Kiani, Associate Professor, Center for Neural Science
108. John King, SPS, Associate Adjunct Professor
109. Eugenia Kisin, Associate Professor, The Gallatin School
110. Chenjerai Kumanyika, Assistant Professor, Journalism
111. David Larsen,Clinical Associate Professor, Liberal Studies
112. Toby Lee, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies
113. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, Associate Professor, Sociology of Education
114. Lauraberth Lima, Faculty Fellow, Program in Museum Studies
115. Tatiana Linkhoeva, Associate Professor, History
116. Julie Livingston, Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
117. Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History
118. Tom Looser, Assoc. Prof., East Asian Studies
119. Ritty Lukose, Associate Professor, The Gallatin School
120. Ying Lu, Associate Professor, Steinhardt
121. Linda Luu, PhD Candidate and Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
122. Elizabeth Machlan, Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program
123. Samer Madanat, Professor and Dean of Engineering, NYU-Abu Dhabi
124. Ifrah Magan, Assistant Professor, Silver School of Social Work
125. Dale Maglalang, Silver School of Social Work, Assistant Professor
126. Anna McCarthy, Professor, Cinema Studies
127. Maureen N. McLane, Dept of English, Henry James Professor of English and American Letters
128. Prita Meier, Associate Professor, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts
129. Sienna Merope-Synge, Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law & Supervising Attorney, Global Justice Clinic, School of Law
130. Salwa Mikdadi, Professor of Practice in Art History, NYUAD
131. Bella Mirabella Professor Emerita Gallatin School
132. Nadja Millner-Larsen, Visiting Assistant Professor, XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement, GSAS
133. Mara Mills, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, Associate Professor
134. Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor, Media, Culture and Communication
135. Mostafa E. Mobasher, Assistant Professor, Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
136. Domingo Morel, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Service
137. Jennifer Morgan, Profesor, Social and Cultural Analysis & History
138. Fred Moten, Professor, Performance Studies
139. Mohamed Moustafa, Visiting Associate Professor, Civil and Urban Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
140. Tahira Naqvi, Clinical Professor Urdu Language and Literature. Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
141. Andrew Needham, Associate Professor, History
142. Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Practice, Human Rights and International Law, Gallatin
143. Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga, Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
144. Molly Nolan, Professor emerita History Department
145. Laine Nooney, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, Assistant Professor
146. Sana Odeh, Clinical Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science Department
147. Shannon O'Neill, NYU Libraries, Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections
148. John O'Brien, Associate Professor, Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi
149. Bilal Orfali, Arts and Humanities, Visiting Professor of Arabic and Middle East
150. Crystal Parikh, Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis
151. Robert Parthesius, Associate Professor, Art and Humanities & Heritage and Museum Studies, NYUAD
152. Tyson Patros, Clinical Assistant Professor, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
153. Asli Peker, Clinical Professor, Program in International Relations
154. Ann Pellegrini, Professor, Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis
155. Amira Pierce, Expository Writing Program, Associate Clinical Professor
156. Sara Pursley, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
157. Sonya Posmentier, Associate Professor, English
158. Myisha Priest, Associate Professor, Gallatin School
159. Mohammad A. Qasaimeh, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, NYU-Abu Dhabi
160. Cassi Quayson, Creative Writing, Adjunct Instructor
161. Khalil Ramadi, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Tandon
162. Mitra Rastegar, Clinical Associate Professor, Liberal Studies
163. Timothy J Reiss, Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature
164. Jacob Remes, clinical associate professor of history, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
165. Sahar Romani, Clinical Assistant Professor, Expository Writing Program
166. Avital Ronell, German and Comparative Literature Professor
167. Andrew Ross, Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis
168. Dara Rossman Regaignon, Associate Professor, English
169. Jess Row, Clinical Professor, English
170. Martha Rust, English, Associate Professor, English
171. Lara Saguisag, Teaching and Learning, Georgiou Chair in Children's Literature and Literacy, Department of Teaching and Learning.
172. Mustafa Saifuddin, Visiting Assistant Professor, XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement
173. Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Professor, Social & Cultural Analysis
174. Michael Salgarolo, Faculty Fellow, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis
175. Zach Samalin, Assistant Professor, English
176. Surabhi Sharma, Associate Professor, Film and New Media, NYU-Abu Dhabi
177. Camille-Mary Sharp, Program in Museum Studies, Faculty Fellow
178. Omar Yousef Shehabi, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, Law School
179. Normandy Sherwood, Expository Writing, Clinical Associate Professor
180. Ella Shohat, Professor, Art & Public Policy
181. Dina M. Siddiqi, Clinical Associate Professor, Liberal Studies
182. Nikhil Pal Singh, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History
183. Selcuk Sirin, Professor, Applied Psychology
184. Laura Slatkin, Professor, Gallatin School
185. Federico Sor, International Relations, Clinical Assistant Professor
186. Marie Cruz Soto, Gallatin School, Clinical Associate Professor
187. Carol Anne Spreen, ASH, IE Professor
188. Robert Stam, University Professor, Cinema Studies
189. Juliet Stanton, Associate Professor, Linguistics
190. Justin Stearns, Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies, New York University Abu Dhabi
191. Corinne Stokes, Senior Lecturer, Arabic Studies Program, NYU-Abu Dhabi
192. Marita Sturken, Professor, Media, Culture and Communication
193. Pacharee Sudhinaraset, Assistant Professor, English
194. Jeannine Tang, Assistant Professor, Dept of Performance Studies
195. Helga Tawil-Souri, Associate Professor, Media, Culture and Communication
196. Sonali Thakkar, Assistant Professor, Department of English
197. Madina Thiam, History, Assistant Professor
198. Sinclair Thomson, Assoc. Professor, History
199. Yesim Tozan, Assistant Professor, School of Global Public Health,
200. Simón Trujillo, Associate Professor, English
201. Thuy Linh Tu, Professor, Social and Cultural Studies
202. Deepak Unnikrishnan, Literature & Creative Writing, Associate Arts Professor, NYU-Abu Dhabi
203. Delio Vasquez, Assistant Professor, Gallatin School
204. Waqas Waheed, Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering, NYU-Abu Dhabi
205. Yijun Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of History
206. Bryan Waterman, Associate Professor, English
207. John Waters, Clinical Associate Professor, Irish Studies and English
208. Barbara Weinstein, History, Silver Professor
209. Andrew Weiner, Associate Professor, Art and Art Professions
210. E. Frances White, Professor and Dean Emerita, Gallatin and Social and Cultural Analysis
211. Lauren Whitehead, Asst. Arts Professor, Tisch Drama
212. Yi Yin, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies
213. Hirokazu Yoshikawa,, Professor, Applied Psychology
214. Shamoon Zamir, Professor of Literature and Art History, NYU-Abu Dhabi
215. Edward Ziter, Drama, Professor
216. Angela Zito, Associate Professor, Religious Studies